My birthday present to myself this year is something I have wanted for many years. Whilst in the throes of hopefulness, thinking I could become a creative writer at a die-hard feminist university, I splashed out on a second hand 12.9” iPad. Not wanting to spend another sum to get the Magic Keyboard, new andContinue reading “From Worst to Best”
Category Archives: Tech Kit
AI Overlords!!
I just typed ‘mens health clinic’ into Maps, and tapped on ‘search nearby’. I live on the east coast of Australia. Apple’s wonderful AI directs me to somewhere in Winnipeg but is, somehow, unable to provide directions. Here is a personal, heart-felt message to everyone at Apple: JUMP OFF THE END OF THE PIER!
Apple Shite
Wavering presentation indicates a wavering of vision but I hope it isn’t so.
Delegating
Great idea, delegating. Finding the right people who can fill-in the bits and pieces while a suitable someone co-ordinates the big picture is awfully efficient. Whether social, professional, technological or scientific, great things can be achieved: public services, the EU, MacOS and CERN exemplify such. However, a certain rot sets in with some systems whichContinue reading “Delegating”
Neoliberalism + Gaming
Profit enhancement eventually leads to hatred of what you do.
Apple 2022: The Year of Stupid
Putting a USB 2.0 chip in the USB C port on iPad 10, iPhone 14 Pro Mox camera worse than 13, M2, and box designs from 2006. Then there’s the About This Mac which has less information and is more difficult to operate along with QuickTime Player, now ten times more irritating to use withContinue reading “Apple 2022: The Year of Stupid”
Unchanging Microsoft
Surface DuoAlmost four years ago, MS unveiled a dual screen smart-ish phone to take on Samsung and Royale and Huwawei at the ugly of smart tablets which fold in half. Perhaps MS had better screens up its sleeve than Samsung, or access to better chips than Samsung, or a better manufacturing business than Samsung, orContinue reading “Unchanging Microsoft”
Universal Control
No lag. At all. For all the non-tech and non-Apple users who may read this, let me explain. Since Jobs unveiled MobileMe a very long time ago, the idea of linking all your data and devices together disturbed the ‘people’ at Microsoft, RIM, Motorola, Samsung and Nokia: ‘How could this even be possible?’ they wailed,Continue reading “Universal Control”
Design and Popularity
How devices are designed has more to do with the vision which contextualises that design: difficult to use hardware and irritating software convey little vision or little talent to manifest a big vision. When Blackberry released their messaging system, it was based on the vision of easy texting. Android was updated in 2009-2011 based onContinue reading “Design and Popularity”
Benchmarks
2015 iPhone 6S A9 Single 552; Multi 1015 2019 iPhone 11 Pro Max A12 Single 1325; Multi 3437 2016 9.7” iPad Pro A9X Single 640; Multi 1181 2020 10.9” iPad Air A14 Single 1585; Multi 4194 2015 13” MBP i5 Single 761; Multi 1624 2020 13” MBP M1 Single 1692; Multi 7305 C/- https://browser.geekbench.com I wasContinue reading “Benchmarks”
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