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Dr. Drang☃️ Apple’s different philosophies.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/03/hardware-vs-software/
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/03/hardware-vs-software/
Neil Hargreaves@drdrang surely Apple could benefit from some more clarity when it comes to its philosophy toward hardware and software products (os + apps), there used to be an SVP of apps, Steve used to do a lot of UI reviews of apps, where does design live? Even though apple.com/apps exists it's not linked in the top or bottom navigation. Alan Kay's people who love software... philosophy seems to have been forgotten along the way. OKOK I will start a blog soon!
Kieran Healy@drdrang These days, CRC Press does a good line in technical books in Statistics / Data Science / Machine Learning / AI, etc. I keep hoping they branch out into actually building evil AIs because then they would mirror the development of Aperture Science, from the Portal games, which canonically begins as a shower curtain company and ends up making killer robots. CRC began by making lab aprons and got into publishing by offering the Rubber Handbook free if you bought a dozen aprons.
@kjhealy I think that kind of corporate expansion is also in a New Yorker cartoon. I was surprised when CRC branched out into textbooks. I have a couple. But the H of C and P was unique in that everyone in STEM in my era was told to get it when we went to college, and none of us actually used it. I could tell how old people were by the edition number of their copy.
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