Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

curious to hear what the maxed out price is, i'm guessing 8999

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, June 3, 2019 1:57 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haven't done it for a few years but a friend and I would jokingly max out the top-end system on the website back when Mac Pros were a running thing with regular updates and, even without RAID you could hit $10k reliably

That Minecraft VR demo though ...

yeeks

SwiftUI will be such an improvement to my average, daily quality of life that I almost broke down.

page updated: https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

so the weird expansion thing (MPX) is basically a way to throw the power connection for the video card along with more connection points to the bus on to the motherboard in a straight line instead of dropping more wires through the case and the card they're sourcing from AMD is using their specialty chip-to-chip bus, which isn't an apple-specific thing necessarily

no idea wtf Afterburner is, because "programmable ASIC" is general enough to mean it could do lots of things depending on what kind of basic instructions it allows. looks like their first-party video editing will be using some sort of API to interact with it, and it'll be interesting to see if they open it up

xp I did shed some tears of sympathy for the iOS developers watching that. hope it makes life less bad, Elvis!

Can you explain SwiftUI in terms a dyed-in-the-wool Objective-C/IB-before-storyboards relic can understand?

from one screenshot it looks like declarative nested frames as code, ie the only way I can imagine actually ever learning to program a GUI

Gonna need to watch Platforms SoTU in a minute.

Meanwhile pls excuse stroughton smith tweet but MOUSE ON IPAD

Hello mouse support on iOS 13! It’s an AssistiveTouch feature, and works with USB mice. @viticci nailed this pic.twitter.com/nj6xGAKSg0

— Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) June 3, 2019

I’m getting this now I think; it’s really nice. Like having bindings back again, for one thing.

my favorite part of any new iOS is the wallpaper

https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/03/ios-13-wallpaper/

Well well

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/06/jony-ive-to-form-independent-design-company-with-apple-as-client/

pretty good business plan if you can actually swing it

“Sir” Ive lol

OH you put the buttton HERE ...well let me knight yo azz just so the world knows where you’re from

Every forthcoming article about Jonny Ive’s design genius and legacy should be required by law to include this photo pic.twitter.com/mAkpmDSBqC

— laura olin (@lauraolin) June 27, 2019

lol!

Sir Botox.

hockey puck mouse too

I actually liked the hockey puck a lot, once they added the dimple. I don’t think they’ve made a decent mouse since, come to think of it.

Hockey puck was very cool

you all are crazy. always pointing in the wrong direction.

And super poor ergonomics!

Rumors and stories!

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/07/01/jony-ive-dispirited-before-leaving-apple/

Wah

Little jony’s Departure meant zero to the stock price

Credibility of that piece a little undercut by that quote saying Ive built Apple into an HCI powerhouse

Alexander wept, for there were no more buttons to remove

lol

we had a laptop in flames on our floor, one of the bad batch that they are recalling.

(it's a big floor, probably two hundred macbooks in total.)

I may have to buy that rumored 16” MacBook if it’s not too insane $$$

I had my battery and lower case replaced for free because of the battery issue

Unfortunately the IT supplier that we use seems to have a different set of priorities and hasn't sorted out a returns policy as yet. People who have affected laptops, according to the serial number checker, have reported it but have been told to keep using the laptop until arrangements have been made.

I had a 17" macbook pro (last model made) that spit out a puff of flame from its FW port one day. Apple called me and asked if I was injured (presumably to head off a lawsuit). I wasn't, but every last part of that laptop was eventually replaced.

they don’t call it a firewire port for nothin’

I haven't yet seen an iPhone X or anything more recent IRL.

JUST UPGRADE THE SE U FUCKS

amen

I still see the iPhone 4 IRL. we socialists are too poor for the fancy new tech. though the iPhone X is almost two years old now.

everybody has AirPods now though

What I've realised it's that most of them are cheap fakes though

Is not it's

ha around here that is probably true, I don't know how to tell the difference

they make you look a like a fool, that's for sure

They tend to be a bit fatter than the real thing. But I have to say my main evidence is just "there's no way all these people can afford £150 headphones"

They were pretty ubiquitous in Manhattan back in April. Then again.... Manhattan

SE rulez, fools

Wow a whole show full of people pretending to be blind!

And next year, See++!

I want an Apple Watch with always-on screen f'real

"I haven't yet seen an iPhone X or anything more recent IRL."

really? maybe because I live in SF but the X is ubiquitous as are the other ones.

another year where no phones I can comfortably use get announced, I should put a new battery in my SE sometime soon

Trying to decide whether to trade in my too-large XS Max for an 11 Pro, or just to use my old SE that I bought for my son.

what do you mean 'comfortably use'?

DJI that’s my plan