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SwiftOnSecurityApple technology isn't in Star Trek because they couldn't integrate into existing Enterprise systems.
Riley S. Faelan@SwiftOnSecurity That's a really old stereotype, though. Isn't future supposed to have a European Union to tell the Intergalactic Apple Company what its power connectors must look like?
AGTMADCAT 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼🇵🇸@riley @SwiftOnSecurity Honestly the stereotype is still fresh.
JamesHaughton@SwiftOnSecurity
There’s a lookalike iPad in ‘2001’ though.
There’s a lookalike iPad in ‘2001’ though.
Joe ❌👑@jamesHaughton @SwiftOnSecurity Yes, both 2001 and Star Trek: TNG had devices that looked very much like an iPad. Didn't stop Apple from filing a very broad design patent that would seem to cover any flat rectangular touch screen (they didn't get it, fortunately).
Sean Eric Fagan@SwiftOnSecurity Apple technology *is* Star Trek -- it's all very shiny and people like it but if you want to do anything outside the bounds you have to jailbreak it, and it dies if you plug in a device that creates a surge of power.
bubbajet@SwiftOnSecurity All those touch screens? Might be Apple StarshipPlay(tm).
Botch Frivarg@bubbajet @SwiftOnSecurity I'm pretty sure they use them with gloves sometimes, so can't be an apple product
kurtsh
Jay Thoden van Velzen ☁️🛡️
@kurtsh @SwiftOnSecurity or alternatively, "... they don't understand integration into existing Enterprise systems"
Josh
Sam Kington@SwiftOnSecurity The one feature in Snow Leopard was support for Microsoft Exchange, though?
OK, OK, but more constructively: this is perhaps a better punchline for “how come, in a post-scarcity utopia, star date <insert Trekkie date here> *still* hasn’t been the year of Linux on the Desktop?”
Pepijn Bruienne@SwiftOnSecurity We actually become a distinct civilization in Trek lore, the Cupertinians. Little-known fact.
HTTP 1.1/418 Teapot
derek the solarboi@SwiftOnSecurity Good grief, you're so good at these jokes 😂
Tony WellsThis manages to be both a terrible pun and subtle comment at the same time.
BeckyI hate this.
I hate myself more for laughing at it.
I TRIPLE hate the thought of the borg queen and space future musk bumping uglies.
jwz
International Docking Standard dot com
If Apple were involved in this, the connector would have been completely different every 18 months, and each spacecraft would now come with a stack of dongles. 7. With this standard can anyone now dock to the ISS? Building to this docking standard ensures compatibility and enables a spacecraft using it to dock to the planned ISS compatible docking ports. A non-ISS partner space agency would ...
Matthew Dockrey@jwz @SwiftOnSecurity I really didn't need to know that exists. What a project, though, trying to make one that would (very theoretically) be compatible!
Ken Redler@jwz @SwiftOnSecurity And it also functions as a baby walker.
blterrible@SwiftOnSecurity *rimshot*
TheIronFox(MOVED)@SwiftOnSecurity shiiii, every now and then you have a post that is more fire than the usual
this is one of those
Jake Ouellette@SwiftOnSecurity ... I guess lightning cables are more of a planetary serial bus than a universal one
Daryl Hornsby@SwiftOnSecurity you get a gold star!
Asymmetricblue@SwiftOnSecurity Joking aside, Michael Okuda designed LCARS on a Macintosh II if I recall correctly. There weren’t many other options available for that kind of computer graphics design back in 1987.
Andrew Burke
Mark Morowczynski
D C Ross@SwiftOnSecurity
"Scotty! I need the engines back online now!"
"Ah canne do it, Cap'n! Best I can do is get an appointment at the Genius Bar, but that won't be until --"
"Let me guess, next Tuesday"
Jeff Sheets@SwiftOnSecurity as a dev begging my client for a mac laptop, this hits so close to home
Matt Steele@jeffsheets @SwiftOnSecurity as a sysadmin who spent most of last week trying to configure a Mac with all our usual enterprise tools and policies, gotta concur
Brian Baresch@SwiftOnSecurity Enterprise systems are why Picard has to say "tea Earl grey hot" every time instead of a shortcut
Farce Majeure@SwiftOnSecurity also because star trek is so obviously DEC based.
Michael Vilain@SwiftOnSecurity Isn't that a good thing? It means the Cylon's can't hack into it.
Rainer Burkhardt
Cliff Barbier@SwiftOnSecurity
Such truth.
We can integrate into Linux distros easier than Macs!
Speed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸@SwiftOnSecurity Forgot the hashtag #Dadjokes
der.hans@SwiftOnSecurity no seatbelt is certainly an apple *feature*
Kevin Karhan 
@SwiftOnSecurity Also #Apple being #AntiRepair disqualified them from being used in any #MissionCritical role...
Texan Tally@SwiftOnSecurity I dunno about that. Honest Trailers dubbed the JJ Abrams version of the Enterprise as "the Federation's heavily-armed Apple store."
Xerø@SwiftOnSecurity I've always assumed that Klingons use a 1990s version of Red Hat Linux, it would explain why they are always so angry.
Andrew 🌻 Brandt 🐇
FirefighterGeek 
@SwiftOnSecurity Of course Apple is on Star Trek. What do you think the warp "core" is made of?