I almost pre-ordered an iPhone XS Max in the early hours of this morning. I think if it had been available for 21 September pickup from any of the Tokyo-based Apple Stores (like it was for Osaka, Kyoto and Nagoya), I very well might have pulled the trigger.
I only just noticed that his name is Schiller and his job is shilling.
Sad to discover that the Exponent podcast has, for all intents and purposes, ended. The guys are doing the right thing, I think, but I’ll miss having at least one Australian accent in my podcast queue.
Apple’s chip team deserves all the plaudits they receive but the performance gains have significantly slowed compared to previous YOY improvements. I wonder if this bodes ill for an ARM-powered Mac.
Not sure what to do about the new phones and watches. Battery life is fine again on my Series 2 and the Series 4 isn’t that much better in the ways I care about. The XS Max (what an awful name) would be great but just so expensive.
Pet peeve: calling interviews ‘conversations’.
The quality of the cellular connection in this part of Tokyo is driving me crazy.
There’s no better demonstration of the human capacity for ingenuity than developers using JavaScript as a real programming language.
Saying that I’m strongly considering upgrading to the new Apple Watch seems to have put the fear of God into my existing watch. Battery has been great the past few days.
I’m excited to see what surprises Apple has in store for us!
How did I not get a notification at any point that Passenger had released an album of covers last year? What am I paying you for, Apple Music?
We were just switched to Windows 10 (from what was effectively Windows 7) at work and I’m beginning to understand why everyone hates the Modern UI.
I’ve been experimenting with Mastodon via the ruby.social instance for the past few days and have enjoyed it quite a bit. Mastodon’s Twitter-like qualities have helped me see Micro.blog as more of its own thing.
I’m pleased to report that the battery life on my Apple Watch has been much better the last couple of days. I rebooted it and haven’t tried running apps at all since. Maybe that’s why?
The pundits may be right on the moral correctness of political appointees defying the President, but as someone within range of North Korean weapons of mass destruction who can’t vote in your election, discussions of ‘democraticness’ ring hollow.
The battery life on my Series 2 Apple Watch has gotten noticeably worse in the past week. I struggle to make it to bedtime.
I’m considering having my Jekyll image gallery plugin generate an RSS feed. How many entries do people put in their RSS feed? Do you just keep adding to it and never remove the old items?
I don’t know if it’s the typhoon or not but my home Internet speed is woeful today.
I managed to remove the 3TB hard disk that was in an extremely difficult to open Western Digital enclosure. I feel like an absolute legend.
A couple of years back I read an article about the launch of the original iPod and the physical CDs that Apple provided to reviewers for albums that were loaded onto the iPod. Does anyone else remember this? I can’t find it.