Category: computers

  • Apple WWDC 2019 Event Notes

    Apple held their annual World-Wide Developer Conference event in San Jose, California today. Here’s what they announced: Tim Cook’s Services Showcase Tim Cook hosted and reiterated how great he thinks Apple is, and briefly recapped their services event. As if to fix their perplexing lack of trailers or clips of their original TV programming (Apple…

  • iPod Touch Hardware Updated After 4 Years

    The last Apple product with the iPod name, the iPod Touch, has been updated for the first time in four years. The new 7th generation (2019) iPod Touch has an A10 Fusion system-on-a-chip (SoC), which is the same as the iPhone 7. 32 gigs of storage at $200, 128GB at $300, and 256GB at $400.…

  • Apple’s Anxiety-Inducing MacBook Pro Keyboard Situation Update

    Remember how Apple released a MacBook Air last year that might have had a more reliable update to their butterfly keyboard mechanism? Joanna Stern wrote about how it wasn’t fixed for the Wall Street Journal and put the nail in that coffin. Here’s one I missed, Casey Johnston also had an update on our long…

  • Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm

    That’s the headline to Joanna Stern’s latest column about Apple’s keyboard ongoing nightmare. It’s a hilarious column to read, Stern had her colleagues make some custom tech to remove or add letters from the article to match her brand new MacBook Air’s broken keyboard, and the video has a great conclusion. Don’t worry, there are…

  • Apple Services Event March 2019 Notes

    Apple opened yesterday’s event at the Steve Jobs theater in Cupertino with a 1960’s-style movie credits animation that paid homage to previously successful products their people have created. The iPod, the iPhone, the Mac, all great things but an odd thing to reference for an all-services event. Tim Cook came on stage to introduce the notion…