Bloomberg Leaked Apple-Release Specifics?

Wait, wasn’t it Bloomberg that did a hit and run piece about a rather implausible, science-fiction-y issue with SuperMicro hardware a few months ago? Entirely baseless, didn’t name names or give any other mechanism to substantiate the claims.

Stock on all three companies took a dive.

And now that same Bloomberg has released “leak” of the pending Apple release of macOS (v10.15), iOS (v13), and WatchOS (v6) that outlines a huge number of features.

Sounds quite suspicious to me, especially because of the source. They haven’t named a name or provide any other means to validate the claims they’re making. So, no, I certainly don’t trust anything revealed via Bloomberg.

Uh, This Message, Um, Is About, Er…

Sometimes, we’ll need to listen to someone drone on with variations of “uh” and “um” 1,440 times… in an hour. It would be quite annoyingly (and distractingly) interrupted by the occasional use of technical terms.

After a few minutes, I concluded that it must not have been the result of any distractions but was likely a psychological difficulty. It’s quite difficult, as a listener, to follow along with technical concepts when the presenter is struggling with a speech disfluency as significant as this.

iOS-a-Sketch?

The current process to “undo” on an iPhone is awkward enough. You’ll look like an impatient loon getting frustrated with a phone call when you want to undo whatever the last action was.

It’s even more maddening on the iPad.

Mistakenly delete something? Welp, grab your grippy-gloves, readjust your grip, and shake it like an electronic Etch-A-Sketch, because you’ll not be getting it back unless you begin flailing the rather expensive iPad around.

And you can forget it if you are unlucky enough to no longer have the dexterity to coordinate the rhythmic shake-shake-shake to bring it back.

Or resign yourself to redoing whatever thing it was.

Shake to undo was useful for awhile. But doesn’t seem so anymore.

Please, Apple, can we please make “undo” something a bit more accessible?

Gut the Notifications

I’ve been saying and insisting for a few years that notifications of all kinds are interruptions.

Turn them off.

You do not need to send out a notification that an automatic process as run automatically.

Turn them off!

You never need to tell someone that an automatic thing has occurred “just in case” they would find it helpful.

Stop interrupting!

Or people will implement their own automation to simply suppress the constant, incessant interruptions.

Well, That’s Annoying…

Well, that’s a bit annoying… I was many hours into the build and noticed that the instructions were calling out a couple of electrolytic capacitors…

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Okay, but in reality, the silkscreen on the PCB differed…

DSC00159Not quite sure what the markings are for C21, C22, and C54. The silkscreen indicates a ceramic capacitor, but the instructions call for electrolytic.

Time to do some research as time permits…