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I saw in today’s news that Apple open sourced their Swift language. One of the most influential companies in the world explicitly adopting an open source model – that’s great! I’m a believer. One of the big reasons we founded Discourse was to build an open source solution
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I enjoy my iPhone tremendously; I think it’s the most important product Apple has ever created and one they were born to make. As a consumer who has waited far too long for the phone industry to get the swift kick in the ass it so richly deserved, I’
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I never quite made the transition from the Apple II series to the Mac. Instead, I migrated from my Apple II to a PC. I always thought the PC ecosystem, although deeply flawed, was more naturally analogous to the eclectic third party hardware and software hacker ecosystem that grew up
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I had read a few complaints that OS X font rendering was a little wonky, even from Joel Spolsky himself: OS X antialiasing, especially, it seems, with the monospaced fonts, just isn’t as good as Windows ClearType. Apple has some room to improve in this area; the fonts were
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When I wrote that the Mac Mini was an underpowered, expensive box at the beginning of 2005, I had no idea that Apple would do something wonderful to fix this: switch to Intel x86 CPUs. I guess Apple has conveniently forgotten that whole “supercomputer on a chip” marketing campaign for
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I guess John Gruber isn’t as savvy as he thought he was: “Apple Announces Switch to Intel Chips” After seeing NT slowly shed its MIPS, Alpha, and PPC versions, you have to wonder: will our children be using architectures that emulate some form of x86? Even with a flash
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The appeal of the Mac Mini is totally lost on me. It’s an underpowered, expensive box – like every other computer Apple has ever introduced. And yet, a certain contingent of PC users are buying this thing on release day. I never understood that. Ed Stroglio may be the best