New HomePod
New Apple HomePod
Announced today arriving February 3rd, so amazing I can’t wait. What a pleasant surprise. The sound on the original was top notch. Hopefully the Siri integration is improved. Plus, you guessed it, available in White.
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New M2 Pro And M2 Max Macs!
Nice upgrades all around.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
A Blessed and healthy New Year.
Limited Ken Fender(Japan) Stratocaster
One of my all time favorite bands L’Arc-en-Ciel from Japan, lead guitar player Ken just released via Fender Japan his new signature Strat’s. What a simply gorgeous Stratocaster. Amazing color called Ken White and stunning gold hardware.
History tonight on Apple’s Friday night baseball?
Would be great if New York Yankee Aaron Judge tied and broke Roger Maris’s homer record tonight. Love to see Apple part of that history.
Very Excited new iPhone 14 Pro looks white
The new iPhones 14 Pro look simply stunning. I ordered the iPhone 14 Pro Max 512GB in Silver and its coming on Friday 9/16. Plus I’m very pleased that the back looks more white(in the photos) than the 12 and 13 Pro’s. I will have a full review after I have received it and had a few days to put it through its paces.
soon
REAL MACS ARE SILVER!
The only change I would make to the post title would be in all actuality REAL MACS ARE WHITE! But until we get white aluminum or even better a white ceramic Mac(yes one can dream), I will forever miss the white G3, G4, and G5 iMac’s.
Something feels off about yesterdays Apple – jony ive split report
Not sure where I’m going with this. But never the less I’m really confused about the why of yesterdays news. It’s seems disingenuous and petty that this would even leak. I think apple is better with some form of connection to Jony Ive. Yes I fully understand that egos and ideologies can get the best of anyone. But not when both sides have a long history of successes and mutual respect. The bond that was Steve Jobs connects Apple and Jony Ive way beyond any disagreement or hurt feelings. Plus I would think that if this report is actually true, both sides would have made a statement. Very strange.
MY LAST POST DIDN’T AGE WELL LESS THAN 24 HOURS TO BE EXACT
Via Six Colors and the New York Times
“When Jony Ive left apple to create his own design house called Love From with Apple becoming one of his main clients, the speculation was Jony was out and that was that. I never believed that. I tend to take Apple at face value(they are not prone to lying) especially when they said that very statement word for word. Jony is a resource and will always be for Apple. Anything other than that is pure nonsense. I have always believed Jony was and is designing the car.”
Wow, that was quick! My post from yesterday couldn’t have been more off the mark. It seems Apple and Jony Ive have not renewed the consultant contract that started when he left Apple to form his own design house in 2019. More than 30 years and some of the most iconic, beloved and admired products of all time. Truly the end of an era.
My favorite Jony Ive Macs of all time iMac Snow G3, iMac G4, and iMac G5.
Interesting take from John Gruber at Daring Fireball*
“It remains very much unclear (to me at least) how much Ive (and LoveFrom) have been involved with Apple over the last three years, so it’s unclear whether the lapsing of this formal consulting agreement is largely — or close to entirely — symbolic.”
*UPDATE from John Gruber’s above post at Daring Fireball
“UPDATE: I’m hearing, from a few sources, that LoveFrom’s involvement with Apple has been more than symbolic over the past three years — which makes sense! — and that Apple folks have been reviewing new product designs with Ive as recently as a few months ago. This story in The New York Times is the first a lot of people inside Apple have heard about the purported breakup.”
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