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Apr 20, 2021 • 16 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Apple's AirTag is a revolutionary technology that lets you attach a $40 dongle to items to discourage you from losing them
The invention of a costly free-range dongle with no device to attach to marks the apotheosis of a 30-year arc in Apple product design
Apple's war on grandparents continues with this fully touch-sensitive monstrosity with a Siri button on the side, for easy misclicking
Tim Cook now boasting that the Zappos app is built to run natively on Apple's new M1 processor, so you can order over 400,000 shoes per second
Oh man, to be a fly on the wall at this design meeting.

"I'm thinking metallic slab on a metal hinge"

"Hinge sold separately?"

"Of course."

"I love it! But lose 5 of those ports on the back"
No HDMI port or SD card but this top-of-the-line 2021 performance workstation will look fantastic with Hello Kitty ears
#courage
No amount of keyboard redesign will ever touch Caps Lock
8 GB of memory! Ethernet! Two usable ports! And the pro model even comes with an internal clock card!
There's some really nice design call-outs here to older Mac design language, like the iMac-like color palette, or putting a "turn off my computer" button right next to the delete key.
iPad now has 5G and interoperates seamlessly with both Pfizer and Moderna. (Johnson and Johnson still requires Apple Watch)
I really hope whatever marketing executive originally came up with "Retina Display" still works at Apple and just has to take this shit (delivered by a guy who wears dad sneakers with jeans)
The good news is the smaller iPad Pro costs under a thousand bucks. The bad news is that it physically can't be detached from the larger one
Apple definitely hired some Windows packaging designers this year
15 years ago this was wonderful satire, now it's just Apple
Pretty excited about the market for stolen $450 Hermès luggage tags. This is like buying a solid gold mounting bracket for your car alarm. Apple should offer a second, smaller AirTag stitched into it.

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Cryptocurrency and generative AI make roughly the same size claims to being transformative innovations, so it's interesting to see how many interesting things people have already found to do with the latter, while the first has mostly been an expensive tour through human folly
I like thinking of cryptocurrency as "financial string theory", but for the parallel to really work a lot more physicists would need to be in jail
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Rising from the crypt to talk a little about how pre-wikipedia generations lived. There was a big encyclopedia in the library, but only really rich families would own one. The best that poor kids could hope for was grocery store encyclopedias, bought one volume at a time
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Let's see what Google's been up to with their political giving—it's been a while! As a reminder, Google's PAC collects voluntary employee contributions, then gives that money to politicians the company supports. We begin our evening with a nice $5K to the Republican Majority Fund
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