Wednesday, Oct. 28th 2015

Inside Apple's perfectionism machine ^#

"For those struggling to understand what Apple is up to, it might be best to imagine the Apple logo as a giant, rose gold-colored apple sculpture that's being polished beyond perfection, to some sort of ideal, a level of quality that is so undeniable that no competitor dares forget it."

Wednesday, Oct. 28th 2015

More on tvOS storage limits… ^#

@tylerjmartin—"PSA: you CAN store data locally on tvOS (500K w/NSUserDefaults). I've confirmed on device and source seems credible"

Wednesday, Oct. 28th 2015

Polygon on Apple TV storage ^#

"This week, for the first time since it debuted in 2007, the Apple TV will welcome native games. But games are far from the only first for Apple's new set-top box. Behind the scenes, apps will run on an aggressive, intelligent operating system called tvOS. In many ways, tvOS is a radical rethinking of the fundamental nature of operating systems and our relationship with them. And because of that, its rules and limitations look odd."

Tuesday, Oct. 13th 2015

Why Apple is still sweating the details ^#

Medium.com: The Inside Story of Apple’s New iMacs

“They are all computers,” [Phil Schiller] says. “Each one is offering computers something unique and each is made with a simple form that is pretty eternal. The job of the watch is to do more and more things on your wrist so that you don’t need to pick up your phone as often. The job of the phone is to do more and more things such that maybe you don’t need your iPad, and it should be always trying and striving to do that. The job of the iPad should be to be so powerful and capable that you never need a notebook. Like, Why do I need a notebook? I can add a keyboard! I can do all these things! The job of the notebook is to make it so you never need a desktop, right? It’s been doing this for a decade. So that leaves the poor desktop at the end of the line, What’s its job?”

Tuesday, June 30th 2015

Thoughts on self driving cars ^#

How many of these would it take for self driving cars to be worth it to you?

What if…

• we didn’t need street signs anymore?
• there were no more traffic jams?
• speed limits could double? triple?
• cars could draft behind each other at these speeds?
• gas mileage could double? triple? (see above)
• there were no more bicyclist or motorcycle fatalities?
• the death rate of driving was cut in half? to zero?
• the cars could drive us to our road trip destination at night?
• they could auto-park themselves in busy cities?
• after driving us to work, they drove themselves to the shop for regular maintenance? automatically?
• cars could get our groceries from a drive through service?
• they could pick us up from the airport? anywhere? our friends? our family?
• we no longer purchased our cars, but paid a monthly service fee to a car operator?

Considering that most of the currently dominant car companies still struggle with building a useful and user friendly infotainment/navigation system, I would be surprised if any of them were major players regarding self driving cars.

All this being said, there are many older cars I would love to own.