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The apparently-out-of-retirement Mossberg is a good candidate to take a clearheaded look at the “Tim Cook at Apple” decade. I wouldn’t agree with everything Uncle Walt says but there’s no arguing he knows what he’s talking about.

Reading these kinds of stories is both fascinating and scary.

Full disclosure: 6 Underground is not a good movie. It is a Micheal Bay movie, for better or worse. But the fact that Reynolds filmed this Instagram bit last year and it made it into the finished film is hilarious and so on point for Reynolds.

I have the interest and desire to do this (although, because of where we live, we never get packages stolen from our porch) but I don’t have one-tenth of one percent of the ingenuity and design chops this guy has.

Bare Bones Software, makers of BBEdit, is one of my favorite software companies — in fact, I’ve been using BBEdit for more than 20 years. BBEdit has been updated to version 13, and is available in the Mac App Store as a subscription! Same great features. Same user experience. You can subscribe in the Mac App Store or purchase perpetual licenses directly from Bare Bones Software. Also, you can still get great merch, including Classic and Rebus T-shirts, enamel pins, and more in their merch store!

This is a great idea. If I was in the market for a “small” DSLR, I’d definitely look at participating in this program.

This is funnier than it had any right to be.

Apple can always do more but they have made great strides in the areas of accessibility for any number of its customers. And accessibility offers benefits to all users, disabled or not.

Dave and I talk about the release of the Mac Pro this week and my annoyance with some complaining over the price. We also discuss Apple Maps and how it could learn from the way we use it.

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OK now I want to go to Rhayader, Wales just to meet this little guy.

I didn’t even know about the massive fires throughout much of Africa.

Check out the free eBook from NASA titled “Earth at Night.”

I love and grab this eclectic and odd collection of “Christmas” music from DJ Riko each year.

It’s not just your imagination. It’s definitely gotten worse.

This happened in my “backyard.” If you’ve ever visited Vancouver and seen seaplanes landing and taking off from the harbour, this is likely one of the companies whose planes you saw. Congratulations to them for this amazing accomplishment. Would you fly on an electric plane?

I’m a very adventurous eater and I’d have no problem trying this. How about you?

I don’t want to ruin the story but how much would you pay for this?

I take the SAG Awards more seriously than the Golden Globes in general but also specifically when it comes to the particular categories where they overlap. SAG has more than 160,000 potential voters while the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Golen Globes are voted on by a minuscule 90 people.

While there is some valid criticism of Apple Arcade, there’s no doubt that for most game players, it’s an incredible value.

Really interesting technical discussion about the innards of the Mac Pro.

I absolutely loved my Razr. It still might be the phone that is the most tactile and the most fun to absentmindedly play with and spin in your hands like a fidget spinner.

This is a battle that is far from over and one I fear these companies will lose if only because of the ignorance of the members of Congress and the population in general.

While know-it-all pundits avail themselves of the opportunity to take potshots at Apple over being “out of touch,” almost every one of them seem to be oblivious to the fact that this is not a consumer-level machine. It is a high-end machine for professionals and is priced accordingly.

I personally know two scientists and one video guy who are salivating over this machine. They’ll be maxing it out and happy to do so because they know they can work faster and better and make more money over the next 12 months than they would otherwise. Saying, as Macworld does, “A maxxed-out Mac Pro costs more than a 2020 Corvette convertible!” is utterly ridiculous. Lots of things cost less than a maxxed-out Mac Pro. But lots of things cost more as well.

Pundits should take some time to talk to Apple’s target market for this machine. Few of them blink at the price. They just want to know, “Does it work as advertised? Yes? I’ll buy it.”

I hate the subscription model as much as anyone but given this blog post, I completely understand why Iconfactory, a well respected and trusted Mac/iOS developer, feels it needs to go this route. The best news is the subscription for Linea Sketch 3 will only be $10/year. And, if you buy/bought the app in 2019 (it’s only $5), you’ll get a year of the new version for free.

Needham analyst Laura Martin, who downgraded the California-based tech giant to “underperform”, believes Netflix will have to add a lower priced service to compete with competitors including Apple Inc’s Apple TV+ service and Walt Disney Co’s Disney+.

I don’t buy it. If all Netflix did was show old re-runs of shows, then this analysis would make some sense, but that’s not the only thing Netflix does. It’s original programming is among the best in the industry right now. Apple, Disney, and Amazon are add-ons to Netflix and I don’t see that changing in the next year.

A number of items that were stolen from the family of Ozzy Osbourne’s late guitarist Randy Rhoads were recovered early Sunday when an Eyewitness News viewer spotted them in a dumpster.

Someone had broken into the Rhoads family music school in North Hollywood on Thanksgiving night and stole irreplaceable instruments, memorabilia and photos.

I’m so glad the family got these items back. Randy was one of the great guitarists of our time.

When I was a kid, I loved Isaac Asimov’s view of the future. As an adult, I understand and expect Gibson’s brilliant writing to be more representative of it.

Great list. Hard to argue with many of them.

Two years ago, Apple unveiled Intelligent Tracking Prevention for Safari which aimed to protect users of the browsers from unwanted tracking. It was yet another in a long-running move towards more privacy on behalf of the company for its customers, and this technology, in particular, seems to be having a major impact on the advertising industry.

The ad industry has hated Apple’s implementation of privacy features for its users from the very beginning. To be absolutely clear, the only reason we needed these types of features in the first place is because of the slimy way the ad industry tracked us in the first place.

Apple’s Siri Remote has always been a bone of contention for Apple TV users. And with Swiss fiber TV company Salt giving Apple TV 4K boxes to its subscribers it was only a matter of time before they complained. And when they did, Salt made an alternative.

It’s cool, but for my uses right now, the ATV remote seems to work fine.