You can download a full resolution pdf of the book at the original posts’s link, which is much better quality than the one on Wikimedia.

I used safari’s built in translate feature to translate the page from Japanese to English, scroll down for download options.

I’ve always doubted this take, if you look at the history of Apple software design you will see that they regularly pull visual ideas across from one platform to another just because they’re fond of them at the time. I think that this is like that, they decided it was time for a refresh.

What a shame, I use a remarkable pro at work for all of my note taking and to help organise my days/weeks. I’m really fond of it, because of its minimal functionality. I think spatially and it’s just the right feature set to organise my thoughts.

It was a different time. Less nerdy people already had phones and iPods. And were already keen for better versions of those things. The Internet communicator part was more abstract, it wasn’t clear to a non-technical person why they would even want such a thing. The iphone showed them why by first putting a better phone and iPod in their hands…

But… why would I put the effort into getting an llm to make me an app when a there’s an existing app that I don’t have to maintain? I don’t want to have to make every app I use?

There's a huge difference between local apps that cost one time 3-10$ and apps that ask for a subscription between 5 to 20$ per month. the first category will remain and might become more popular as quality increases, the second category will be oblitereated as the value isn't there, even if all the buyers are rich. The second group takes up a much larger part of the pie than the first though, so apple's revenue will decrease.

All apps that don't have a tangible component, legal protection (like music, tv, movies), or a personality behind it will trend towards $0.

It depends on the value of your time relative to the price of the application. Many of us here are well paid and time poor. It makes sense to pay for well built apps. For the world, we are truly the top 1%. 99% of people would be happy to spend a few hours building an app they need to occasionally maintain. Especially if the app is subscription based.

We should also remember that the effort of building and maintaining apps is dropping precipitously as LLMs get smarter, faster, and cheaper. OpenClaw signalled the direction in which we're heading, and within a year, Anthropic will no doubt have cheap and competent agents which can handle the maintenance autonomously in the background.

This is why SaaS valuations are getting hammered.

> 99% of people would be happy to spend a few hours building an app they need to occasionally maintain. Especially if the app is subscription based.

With people slowly abandoning dedicated computers they fully control (if we can even call windows/macOS that) and going towards mobile/tablet computing more every year, which is a far more locked down device run by companies that are becoming increasingly hostile to “side-loading,” I just don’t see how this can become reality.

I use spaces constantly, and I’ve never thought about the animation - I don’t think I’d ever noticed it to be honest. So it’s really interesting to read all the comments here about how frustrated people are with it. This is not a defence of it just genuine interest - I bet there are totally different parts of the OS that bother me that don’t bother others also.

Try it on an ultrawide monitor. For me it's literally nauseating to leave it turned on, as in, it actively triggers motion sickness with a monitor that width.

I use it on an ultrawide at work, never really noticed it.

For me, I use spaces constantly to help me organise/compartmentalise what I’m doing. It lets you group related windows, where command tab only brings you one window at a time.

One example would be if I’m working on a document that draws on others I have written. Put all three in a space and that piece of work is nicely organised.

When I have all my windows in one space I find it messy and stressful and it’s harder to find what I want.

Overall spaces are more compatible with the way I think than command tab.

The 2019 Mac Pro’s main purpose was to provide much needed reassurance that Apple cared about the Mac. In prior years the quality of the Macs had fallen over all product lines. And the question of does Apple care about the Mac at all was a legitimate one.

This Mac Pro was about resetting and giving a clear signal that Apple was willing to invest in the Mac far more than it was about ‘slots’.

Today, Mac hardware is the best it has ever been, and no one is reasonably questioning apple’s commitment to a Mac hardware.

So it makes sense for the Mac Pro to make a graceful exit.

I also think Apple wasn’t sure 5 years ago that a product like the Mac Studio would be accepted by the market. Memories of the G4 Cube and all…

But it’s a great product, does fulfill the bulk of needs for most “Pro” desktop use cases, and what’s left isn’t interesting or profitable enough to sustain a separate product line.

The hardware teams have done a great job proving Apple cares about the Mac.

It'd be nice if the people in charge of the software would get the message.

I really hope they do something bigger than this to mark the occasion. I know that culturally they don’t like to look backwards. But there is a lot to look back on and this is the time to do it. 50 years of Apple is 50 years of personal computing after all…

I have an old Apple flag I've been intending to auction off at some appropriate point in time. Perhaps this is it?

I think it's really pretty. It's maybe 2m², with the original coloured apple and the company name in Motter Tektura typeface.

Don't know why I mention it here, just thinking aloud before bedtime I suppose.

Fantastic article, I particularly liked the fist 15 percent of it.

“If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter”

Mark Twain?

I honestly don’t know the attribution. Was told the quote in school when being taught on the spirit of Hemingway’s writing and tasked with rewriting a story into only 5 sentences.

This reconceptualized the article as victim blaming. Spot on.