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Stephen Hackett

@ismh
32 posts
2022-10-25
My review of Stage Manager, as a haiku: a new iPad mode moving windows overlap until it crashes Go read Ticci's story: https://www.macstories.net/...
2022-10-25 View on X
TechCrunch

Apple releases iOS 16.1, iPadOS 16.1, and macOS Ventura, with iCloud Shared Photo Library, Continuity Camera, Stage Manager for the Mac and the iPad, and more

Apple has released iOS 16.1, iPad OS 16.1 and macOS 13, as it announced it would do last week.

My review of Stage Manager, as a haiku: a new iPad mode moving windows overlap until it crashes Go read Ticci's story: https://www.macstories.net/...
2022-10-25 View on X
The Verge

After months of tweaks, iPadOS 16's Stage Manager still doesn't work, plagued by confusing behavior and bugs; Mac-like multiwindow multitasking would be better

2022-10-07
Hopefully the robots don't decide to weaponize themselves. https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-07 View on X
Axios

Six robotics companies, including Boston Dynamics, pledge not to support the weaponization of their products and say adding weapons will erode trust in robots

the provider of a bot model that was outfitted with a machine gun and later a RPG launcher—make the same pledge. https://www.pcmag.com/... @litcapital : That's exactly what you'd s...

2022-06-07
The new MacBook Air feels great in great in the hand. Really light but solid. https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-07 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple refreshes the MacBook Air with a thinner, non-wedge design, M2, 13.6" display with a notch, MagSafe, fast charging, and a 1080p camera, starting at $1,199

Apple today announced its next-generation MacBook Air, starting at $1199, featuring the just-announced M2 chip inside.Source:Apple.

The new MacBook Air feels great in great in the hand. Really light but solid. https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-07 View on X
The Verge

Hands-on with Apple's M2 MacBook Air: blue and gold colors in addition to silver and gray, thin bezels, a 500-nit display, a full-size Touch ID button, and more

2022-05-20
Ah yes, Meta is pulling a Basecamp. https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-20 View on X
The Verge

A Meta executive told employees to stop discussing abortion on Workplace, citing “an increased risk” that the company is seen as a “hostile work environment”

Employees say the stance runs counter to Meta policies on discussing Black Lives Matter and trans rights

2022-05-03
Podcasting is better off without them. https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-03 View on X
Bloomberg

Facebook plans to stop letting users add podcasts to the service this week, start removing them on June 3, and discontinue Soundbites and its central audio hub

Facebook is pulling out of podcasts and plans to remove them altogether from the social-media service starting June 3.

2022-04-28
I expected this to be on Apple's domain. Instead it's at https://www.selfservicerepair.com/ and doesn't look like an Apple site at all. The repair manuals *are* on Apple's site: https://support.apple.com/...
2022-04-28 View on X
CNET

Apple debuts Self Service Repair in the US for iPhone 12, iPhone 13, and new iPhone SE models, and plans to expand to Europe and add M1 Macs by the end of 2022

Apple's Self Repair store is run by sn entity named SPOT. Even if they own it completely, Apple could have had this on-domain and be a much nicer (and more official-feeling) experience. But it just ... didn't. I'd love to know why. https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-28 View on X
CNET

Apple debuts Self Service Repair in the US for iPhone 12, iPhone 13, and new iPhone SE models, and plans to expand to Europe and add M1 Macs by the end of 2022

2022-04-27
So many Apple webcam takes tonight but we all know which one is the GOAT. [A picture of iSight]
2022-04-27 View on X
9to5Mac

New Apple Studio Display beta firmware offers minimal webcam quality improvements, suggesting software is not the issue; the culprit may be the ultra-wide lens

When Apple announced Studio Display, it promised “sensational” webcam quality.  However, as customers got their hands on the product …

2022-03-09
I think my 2019 Mac Pro is weeping.
2022-03-09 View on X
AnandTech

A deep dive into Apple's M1 Ultra: two M1 Max dies combined into a single chip, 800GB/second memory bandwidth, 64 GPU cores to outperform the RTX 3090, and more

As part of Apple's spring “Peek Performance” product event this morning, Apple unveiled the fourth and final member of the M1 family of Apple Silicon SoCs, the M1 Ultra.

2021-12-16
Calling it: No in-person WWDC 2022. https://www.macrumors.com/...
2021-12-16 View on X
Bloomberg

Memo: Apple delays its return to corporate offices to a “date yet to be determined”, after previously setting a February 1 return date

- Company had planned to bring corporate workers back by Feb. 1  — Delay comes in response to rising Covid-19 cases, new variant

2021-10-21
I'll sell the polishing cloth that came with my XDR to the highest bidder. https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple product orders, including iPad mini, MacBook Pro, and $19 cleaning cloth, are delayed into November and December due to chip shortages and other issues

- Store employees say supply situation is the bleakest in years  — Latest iPhones, iPads, Macs and watches all see long delays

2021-08-04
@imyke @_inside This is the modern version of your whole nose-tapping-Apple-Watch thing, isn't it?
2021-08-04 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple rolls out three new AMD Radeon Pro graphics card modules for Intel-based Mac Pros; options range from $2,400 to $5,600 in build-to-order configurations

2021-07-26
For years, Apple has said it's design ethos is to get out of the way and to have UI defer to the user's content. Safari 15 on the iPhone breaks that so thoroughly it kind of blows my mind.
2021-07-26 View on X
9to5Google

Ex-Google employee recounts how Google abandoned a redesign attempt of Chrome on Android, which was similar to iOS 15's Safari, with the URL bar at the bottom

Apple's mobile web browser is the main lightning rod of this year's iOS 15 beta period and it remains to be seen whether it will actually launch in the fall. Source: Chris Lee .

That feeling when you aren't able to use a website's functions because Safari 15 wants to jump off the bottom of the screen. https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-26 View on X
9to5Google

Ex-Google employee recounts how Google abandoned a redesign attempt of Chrome on Android, which was similar to iOS 15's Safari, with the URL bar at the bottom

Apple's mobile web browser is the main lightning rod of this year's iOS 15 beta period and it remains to be seen whether it will actually launch in the fall. Source: Chris Lee .

2021-07-15
Peak computing achieved https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-15 View on X
The Verge

Microsoft announces Windows 365, letting businesses stream a version of Windows 10 or 11 in a web browser or through its Remote Desktop app, launching August 2

Windows 365 is a new service that creates Cloud PCs  —  Microsoft is putting Windows in the cloud.

2021-05-29
Apple is delaying the launch of Podcast Subscriptions until June, and is making additional tweaks to the updated Podcasts app: https://twitter.com/...
2021-05-29 View on X
9to5Mac

In an email to podcasters, Apple says it is delaying the launch of its Podcasts Subscriptions and channels until June and plans improvements to its Podcasts app

Apple has announced in an email to podcasters today that it is delaying the launch of Apple Podcasts Subscriptions.

2021-05-19
OpenDoc never really dies. https://www.theverge.com/...
2021-05-19 View on X
The Verge

Google unveils new features for Workspace, part of an initiative called “smart canvas”, including smart objects in Docs and deeper integration of Meet

2021-04-28
Telling your employees they can't have these types of discussions mean you don't care about them as people, and it only marginalizes those who already lack a voice. In the tech industry especially, it's the opposite of what we need. https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-28 View on X
Platformer

Interviews with Basecamp staff on how a “funny” customer names list sparked an internal reckoning and spurred Basecamp's societal and political discussion ban

Casey's reporting for The Verge brought some of the dirty laundry … Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain : Can We Do Better Than Deplatforming?  —  This is Galaxy Brain — a newsletter fro...