@siracusa @atpfm I’m enjoying the After Apple special. Apple’s big differentiator for most of its existence was that Apple was the only one making the whole widget—hardware & software. Steve wanted to build an appliance. “People who love sw should make their own hw”. Tipping point was iPod-consumer electronics plus software, done right. Without Apple, no iPod. No iPhone, Zune, Surface, Pixel? If no Apple, does anyone feel the need to make the whole thing?

@ecschwarz @v600 @atpfm @caseyliss do you know how to church butter? Drive a horse drawn carriage? Track, trap, and hunt animals for food? The basic skills evolve over time. That’s progress. Today’s basic computer skills are account and password management, handling two factor authentication, communicating via shared documents, text, Slack/teams, image conversion.

@ecschwarz @atpfm @caseyliss. You can recreate everything you did back then today. You probably need an account somewhere to purchase and download a word processor but once you do, you can pretty much disconnect and just use it…obviously you can’t instantly share your creation with others, which is the blessing and curse of modern computing.

@ecschwarz bad take. Abstraction of any “file system” has been a huge benefit for 90% of the population. Combine that with auto-save and almost no one has had the “I lost 3 hours of work!” moment.

@siracusa @jsnell How cool is this?

Hi guys! The iPhone Air feels similar to the PowerMac G4 Cube. Form over function. Pro chip and pro-level pricing but too many compromises for Pros. @atpfm @marcoarment @siracusa @caseyliss