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macmostvideo: My Favorite Apple Products From the Last 50 Years

MacBook Neo

Ban The Fuckers!!!

In 2019, Apple was listed in a lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths. Congo has approximately $24 trillion in raw minerals, including more than half the world's known cobalt reserves found in batteries of nearly every standard electronic device, including the iPhone. https://t.co/n4aKIHdM9c

— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) September 2, 2024

This is what 40,000 child slaves look like while working in the cobalt mines of Congo.

Did you know everyone’s favourite genøcidal colony is heavily involved and invested in this industry?

Free Congo ✊🏻🇨🇩
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— ADAM (@AdameMedia) August 29, 2024

2019 Mac Pro and Apple Pro Display XDR: Hands on and First Look! || AppleInsider

Editorial: The new Mac Pro is overkill for nearly everybody, and it hit Apple's own target

When the iMac Pro launched two years ago, it met or beat Windows workstation pricing for identical hardware. And, right now, the Mac Pro at the low end, at least, looks to be about the same —but, admittedly, it is a hard compare to hit it identically.

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Mac Pro & Voice Control

iPhones (2018)

Top 20+ iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max features (9to5mac)

On The Sad State of Macintosh Hardware || Quentin Carnicelli

Quentin Carnicelli

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Given the incredibly sad state of the Mac lineup, it’s difficult to understand how WWDC could have come and gone with no hardware releases. Apple’s transparency in 2017 regarding their miscalculation with the Mac Pro seemed encouraging, but over a year later, the company has utterly failed to produce anything tangible. Instead, customers are still forced to choose between purchasing new computers that are actually years old or holding out in the faint hope that hardware updates are still to come. Every day, the situation becomes more dire.

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iMac Pro pushed to the limit by six visionary artists.

via theLoop

Apple

To demonstrate the power of iMac Pro, Apple invited a group of renowned filmmakers, CG artists, and motion graphics designers to create a personal piece of work using its advanced technologies. The project was an opportunity for each of them to use this incredibly capable tool to define power through the films they made. From concept development through final preparations for render, iMac Pro proved to be the ultimate creative partner.

iPhone X || A Guided Tour from Apple

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iPhone X Teardown (ifixit)

iPhone X

https://www.apple.com/iphone-x/

The Power Mac G4 Cube || 512 Pixels

via theLoop:

Interesting design, innovative use of materials, a sign of the times at Apple.

Apple Sends Out Invite For October 27 Event

The loop:

Apple on Wednesday sent out an invite to press for a special event the company will hold at its Cupertino, Calif. campus on October 27. I will be at the event and will bring you all the news.

It is widely expected that Apple will update its Mac line-up during the event. Nobody knows for sure which Macs are scheduled for updates, but there is hope among users that the MacBook Pro will be among them.

This will most likely be the final product update of the year for Apple as we head into the holiday shopping season.

iPhone 7's 'Best LCD Display Ever'

• via macRumors:

Color Accuracy and Power Efficiency

DisplayMate said the iPhone 7 has "the most color accurate display" that it has ever measured, adding that the smartphone's display is "very likely considerably better than any mobile display, monitor, TV, or UHD TV" that consumers have.

Brightness

The measured peak brightness for the iPhone 7 is 602 cd/m2 (nits), the highest of any smartphone DisplayMate has ever tested.

Contrast Ratio

DisplayMate said the iPhone 7 has a record-breaking contrast ratio among IPS LCD smartphone displays.

Reflectance…

However, the iPhone 7 doesn't come close to the record low 1.7% screen reflectance of the 9.7-inch iPad Pro, which has a special anti-reflective coating.

Viewing Angle

DisplayMate said the iPhone 7 has "excellent viewing angle performance" with no visually noticeable color shifts. The display had the smallest color variation when viewed at an angle, earning a JNCD rating of 2.1 or less

• iPhone 7 Display Technology Shoot-Out (displayMate)

Swift Playgrounds

• Swift Playgrounds

• SWIFT ( programming language )

The iPhones 7 || Reviews

iPhone 7 @ site

• The iPhones 7 by John Gruber
• Review: iPhone 7 and AirPods from the Loop
• Apple tees up the future with iPhone 7 by Matthew Panzarino

• The Year’s Best New Adventure Camera? The Apple iPhone 7 Plus by Jakob Schiller ( outsideonline )

To review the camera in the new iPhone 7 Plus, I chased Outside editors up rivers, down dusty singletrack, through the woods, and into classic New Mexican burrito joints. Over four days of in-the-field testing, I’ve found it to be the best small, lightweight camera you can get for the money, ideal for shooting outdoor adventures when you don’t want to lug around pounds of heavy equipment.

IPHONE 7 AT THE US OPEN/NFL || David E. Klutho | Landon Nordeman

iPhone 7 wPage

• ESPN: With a new two-camera system, the camera on the iPhone 7 Plus is billed as being the most advanced in the world of cellphones. We put it to the test at the US Open, exploring the event in a whole new way.

• Sports Illustrated : iPhone 7 Plus Photos from the Titans-Vikings Game

Crass Journalism

• via DF:

BusinessWeek Profiles Jhony Srouji

… the notion that at the end of an article whose central thesis is that Apple has the industry’s best mobile chip design team, Businessweek needed a quote from someone saying it’s all just marketing hype and that Samsung actually designs better CPUs. That’s nonsense. Nobody who knows what they’re talking about disputes the fact that Apple’s in-house-designed A-series chips lead the industry.

What are the odds that the Linley Group has Samsung as one of its consulting clients?

New York Times Removes Passage On China From Story On Apple/FBI Encryption Fight

Edward Snowden noted the following passage from this NYT report, but it was subsequently removed from the article …

Susan Kare

Susan Kare, John Gruber - Layers 2015 from Layers Design Conference on Vimeo.

Susan discusses her history with Apple and icon design, and sits down with John Gruber to talk design.

iMac: Say Hello To Progress

• Say it …

The iMac ( wikiPedia )