Linked List: May 8, 2020

Friday, 8 May 2020

The Talk Show: ‘30 Years of TidBITS’ ★

Special guest Adam Engst joins the show to celebrate 30 years of TidBITS — the only publication going strong today that started as a weekly HyperCard stack.

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John Moltz Reviews the New iPhone SE ★

John Moltz, writing at his Very Nice Website:

Who else would you turn to for a review of the 2020 iPhone SE than the person who has not bought a new phone for four years?

What do you mean “Literally everyone else.”?

Hiawatha Bray on the Original iMac: ‘Too Odd to Succeed’ ★

A little more vintage claim chowder — this serving from Hiawatha Bray, then the technology columnist for the Boston Globe, in May 1998:

Even though Apple will never be the great company it could have been, you can’t watch its recent revitalization without a sense of bittersweet fascination.

Never.

The iMac doesn’t include a floppy disk drive for doing file backups or sharing of data. It’s an astonishing lapse from Jobs, who should have learned better.

Astonishing.

Vintage 2007 Claim Chowder: Josh Quittner Returned His iPhone ★

Don’t know about you, but I’ve got a hankering for some vintage claim chowder today. I sometimes forget how big a deal Apple’s refusal to support Flash Player on iPhone was for a few years.