Turns out I'm not done with this topic…A couple days ago I saw this post pop up on Threads and it’s the “checkmate” move people like to bring up when dismissing the idea that macOS could ever work on a touch screen device. “How would you press these tiny buttons?!”Now, macOS’s UI isn’t as small as you think, SwiftUI is fundamentally built around the...
Over the past 4 years I’ve really come around on PC being my favorite gaming platform. Part of that is the ability to play at higher visual fidelity than is possible on any console, part of it is more flexibility with playing older games, and a third critical part is how good emulation is on the platform.The Nintendo Switch is great, but I’m at Nintendo’s...
Today Ben Lovejoy posted Touchscreen Macs: The idea that will not die on 9to5Mac and as someone who has weighed in here more than a few times, I figured I’ll do it one more time and then let this topic rest for a while.First, we bust out the classic Steve jobs quote about vertical touch screens being terrible.It turns out it doesn’t work. Touch surfaces...
My wife bought a 12” MacBook in 2016. It was her first Mac. She loved how thin it was and that it looked great, but it ran terribly and only got slower with time.In early 2020 she upgraded to a Dell XPS 13 with a 10th gen Core i7, 32 GB RAM, and 512GB storage. She felt burned by the slowness of the Mac and none of the MacBooks of early 2020 could match...
Lou Plummer: The Phones of Normal PeopleThey hate updates because they interrupt stuff they'd rather be doing. They don't care about the new features being announced at WWDC because they do not want to learn how to do new things with their already too complicated tech. They are the baseline. We are the outliers.Solid post about remembering that there...
Ryan Christoffel quoting Apple’s Greg Joswiak on 9to5Mac:The fact is that the majority of Mac customers have an iPad, and they use them bothWhich lead Ryan to argue:there’s one big reason this will likely never happen. If iPad owners get access to macOS thrown in for free, then Mac sales will undoubtedly take a major hit.As you can imagine, I have thoughts.The...