tags: Apple

I stumbled upon this post about NeXTSTEP (the OS that Steve Jobs created after leaving Apple way back when), which basically already had almost all the features of Mac OS X. Which makes sense. Mac OS (what is now known as Classic) was an evolutionary dead-end with regards to operating systems, about on par with Windows 3.11. And while Apple worked on the vaporware that was known as Copland and even while they flirted with BeOS (what could’ve been, huh?), NeXT was already there and was already a decently established development environment. Hell, it had already spawned an Open Source project (GNUstep) before Apple finally decided to get their shit together and bring Steve back.

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2007

May

2007 May 31

afraid of apple

Wow. This story has actually hit the mainstream media. The BBC notes that people are paranoid about all that personal information embedded in the DRM-free songs offered on the iTunes Music Store.

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December

2007 Dec 3

amazon and itms

Robert Scoble seems to be spinning this as an attack on Apple, but as an iPod owner, what this means is that I now have two places where I can legitimately buy songs in digital format (and even more if more artists get with it and go the way of Radiohead.) Looks like a win-win to me.

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2008

January

2008 Jan 27

macbook air

The MacBook Air is clearly not meant to be a primary machine. Understandably, there are many of us who do use a notebook computer as their only computer, and we are not going to be the target demographic. But there's something to be said for a computer that only weighs 3 lbs. Face it. Minimalism is beautiful. Why do you think European sports cars sell so well?

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February

2008 Feb 8

the failure of vista

It seems to be conventional wisdom that Microsoft Vista sucks, and most Windows users are not going to be comfortable with switching to a Linux distro. (Mostly because they can't play their games, but my advice for them is to invest in a PS3 or a Wii, or buy a Mac and install Parallels so that you have Windows around whenever you need to get your game on.)

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November

2008 Nov 26

the storm

Disclaimer: I do not own an iPhone, although I do own an iPod Touch.

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2015

December

2015 Dec 18

Medical Grade Wearables and Skepticism of the Quantified Self

Everything in my medical training has taught me that trying to min-max your vital signs and lab values is absurd and insane if you don't have any medical problems, but people are going to do it anyway, so I guess I might as well get used to it.

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2015 Dec 24

The iPod is Dead! Long live the iPod!

I am still on my retrospective crawl through my blog. I've finally gotten back to Oct 2006

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