John Gruber’s site is one I have a love-hate relationship with. The man “gets” why Apple has worked – whether you like Apple kit or not – and what made apple successful as a businessup to this time. He also created the very useful markdown tagging/formatting system for plain text. If he could lay off the non-computer political posts where he proves that the very principles he applies to explaining Apple’s success he cannot generalize to the rest of the world… But I digress. He has, with some j…
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PDF and preview issues in Sierra are affecting what used to be long-standing features of the app and the API [https://tidbits.com/article/16966]. The kicker is this: > Apple wants to use a common foundation for both iOS and macOS. However, it was released way too early, and for the first time (at least in my experience) Apple deprecated several features without caring about compatibility. And to make things worse, lots of former features are now broken or not implemented at all, meaning that we…
I recently wrote about how Apple [https://thelastredoubt.com/2016/09/apple-and-sjw-convergence.html], despite the technical momentum and inertia it still has, is already being affected by loss of both product and technical focus as it spends more and more time virtue signalling by working to have “diverse” presenters, a “diverse” programming staff, and expanding their product line. And sure enough, the iPhone release and iOS 10 update proved my point. First – we had a few update issues in the…
Recently at VoxDay’s, a commenter had asked why Apple, despite obviously focusing on SJW-centric issues, had not imploded severely. My take on it. Steve Jobs was a hard-core liberal. Maybe, several years after his death, he would have become an SJW as well, but one can only take him at what he chose to do before his death. Like his choices or not, Apple kit wasn’t simply flashy looks for a lot of money – despite several missteps pushing technology beyond practical limits, he methodically laid…
As Vox Day notes [https://thelastredoubt.com/2016/08/never-donate-to-red-cross.html]: > Don’t ever donate to, or volunteer with, the Red Cross. They are fully SJW-converged and they have been for years. This is also why one should NEVER set up a non-profit. They are always quickly converged by the very people who have lots of time and are oh-so-eager to help. This was in response to an article by Lew Rockwell [https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/08/daisy-luther/stop-self-reliance-immediately/]…