[object Object]Mar 15
what do you call the psychological phenomenon where you hallucinate a human face onto a corporation like Apple and decide it must have goals other than profit maximization and exploitation
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“the macbook neo will usher in a new age of software tinkering” cool! so they finally rereleased HyperCard?

…no? ok fine, at least they published some new developer guidelines such that developers will need to ensure their apps run great on the neo for 8 years since it’s such a performance gap from the high end macbook pro they’re using to develop, right?

…also no? oh dear, how strange. the neo is starting to look a lot like the utterly obvious: an overgrown iPad for SaaS apps

Show thread[object Object]Mar 15
the macbook neo is a device that’s designed to normalize low-end devices as consumption-only SaaS clients. it’s the soft opening blow for the death of general purpose computing for anyone who doesn’t have a corporation’s budget for a $10k+ a pop pro laptop. the future looks like a macbook neo but more expensive, less powerful, and more locked down.
Show threadcanllaithMar 15
@zzt @fincham It is significantly more powerful than machines I still use to write code, write proposals, flash firmware, draw diagrams, manage infrastructure, read very strange takes like this. Do not take me for an Apple sycophant I do not like closed systems. But the narrative that you cannot compute without 64GB of memory serves no-one.
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@canllaith @fincham my guy please get off the soapbox and buy a used lenovo or a chromebook and put linux on it like a normal person
Mar 15 at 9:45pmWeb