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Whitney Houston’s version in 1991 will always be my personal favourite.

It’s a fascinating and uniquely American super event.

Hopefully, this is only temporary and short term.

I don’t know if I’d go so far as “sex sells” but there’s no doubt the original appeal of using a Mac for me was the idea that it wasn’t a device I had to “figure out” how to use. It was definitely seductive.

I love Segall’s tidbits from the history of Apple marketing.

I bring the confusion I have over Neil Young slamming the MacBook Pro to the podcast this week. Dave and I also talk about Apple earnings and Mac Pro in the wild.

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This is the one Apple TV+ series I’ve been looking forward to the most. I read the original Asimov trilogy as a kid many years ago and enjoyed it immensely. How this will be brought to the screen will be very interesting.

Snell surveys many of The Usual Suspects about their opinions regarding Apple’s performance in 2019.

9to5Mac: Earlier this week, Apple released eleven new underwater screensavers for the Apple TV HD and Apple TV 4K. If you are using the Aerial screensaver, the Apple TV will automatically download them and appear in the rotation alongside the … Continued

I was appalled at how many sites were tracking me using this “feature.” I turned it off immediately.

If you like words or “see” words in jumbles of letters, this is the game for you. Very addicting.

It’s a big ask but I’d love to see this level of detail outside the US. Don’t forget about us up here in the Great White North, Apple.

How many of these apps do you use on your iPad?

I never finished Myst – I didn’t have the patience for it – but it was an undoubtedly beautiful and cutting edge game and design.

I rarely use emojis but if you do, here comes a bunch more.

It’s a big day for one of my favorite all-time apps—Fantastical has been updated for all platforms, and for the first time, receives feature parity across platforms. […]

I love Neil Young. I have followed his career for as long as I can remember, and I love his music. However, Neil’s comments today about audio and the MacBook Pro are just completely wrong and nonsensical. […]

Apple on Tuesday reported its financial results for the fiscal first quarter of 2020 with quarterly revenue of $91.8 billion. That’s a 9 percent increase over the same quarter last year, and an all-time record according to the company.

All due respect to Mr Young but he’s full of shit. I will categorically say Steve Jobs never said that to him.

Post your guess before you watch the video. I was blown away by that final number. What a lucky guy.

I don’t usually comment or post about rumours but this makes a huge amount of sense if Apple is looking to expand past original content. MGM has a huge back catalog including the Bond franchise.

Great analysis of what will happen later today and why.

Sinofsky is the former President of the Windows Division at Microsoft and had a front row seat to the disruption the iPad would cause.

I don’t like buffets in principle (the idea of “picked over food” nauseates me) but woe be to the restaurant that offers “All You Can Eat Sushi.” I can eat my body weight in sushi.

I opt-out of all data collection regardless of whether or not the company claimes “The data is fully de-identified.” If you use “Avast Security for Mac”, you might want to look for alternatives.

While this may be a (minor) ethical dilemma for many parents and a conversation I enjoy having with other parents to see where they draw the line, I maintain that up to a certain age, “Children have zero expectation of or right to privacy from their parents.” Or, as my mother would have put it if she had children today, “My house. My rules.”

Ten years ago today, Apple announced the iPad. The video shows an obviously frail Steve Jobs introducing it at a special keynote. I still remember lining up outside of the Apple Store in Portland, Oregon to get my hands on one. As a matter of fact, it would be the last time I lined up in the early hours to get a new Apple product.

Even as it was talked about all over the Mac web last week, I knew it was only a matter of time before it got taken down. You can’t publicly aggregate this much of Apple’s content and not have them notice. There is still lots of content there but all the videos seem to have been pulled.

Anecdotally, I’ve heard similar from the few Tesla and Leaf owners I know.

Tell your less technically adept family and friends FLASH IS DEAD and they shouldn’t install any version of it, particularly if those family and friends visit “sketchy” websites.