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Apple CEO Tim Cook Discusses Apple's Revamped Carnegie Library Store in Washington, D.C.
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Came here to say exactly that! I guess that must be the secret new software coming to the new Mac Pro!
Totally agreed on that.
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I don't think Apple would care at all if a 15 year old opened up his or her iPhone and tried to fix it. But they would void the warranty, as they should.
I’m sure it wouldn’t be the phone-destroying result you envision... I mean, what self-respecting 15 year old doesn’t own an SMT re-work station (microscope sold separately)?
Uhhhhh... what?
I mean, seriously. I just read this twice and I have no idea what point you're trying to make. You're kind of all over the map. What does promoting coding and creativity have to do with Woz and soldering things together and "right to repair?"
I assume you're saying Cook's not a creative thinker or a visionary. That's my best guess. Anyone wanting to slam Tim Cook has to remember that it was his genius in streamlining Apple's entire manufacturing process that set the stage for Steve Jobs to do what he did. Without one, you don't get the other. If you don't think that doesn't require creative thinking and vision, you're kidding yourself. Tim may not be the showman that Jobs was, but that doesn't mean he deserves any less credit for Apple's success than Jobs. He just wasn't out on stage a few times a year putting his face on it.
So thats what my $1,000 phone is paying for, that land a spaceship looking campus where I don't work.
You must not have read the article. The Apple store portion is but a small part of it. Now, thanks to Apple, the rest of the building is restored and open to the public to "pimp" history, library, etc., as well as housing non-profits, Carnegie stuff, etc. So, no reason for negative spin.
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A lot of us visit to play "whack a troll." Yes, they pop up everywhere on MR, but it's fun to whack them down for sport and send them back to their bridge/basement when you need a break from the work on the computer. Admittedly, it's easy sport, but still fun nonetheless. Ooh, I see a "courage" comment, and there's a laptop keyboard one, got to run!
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My point is very clear, he wants users to learn how to code, but you can't be a good programmer without learning how something works. The best programmers in the world learn how to make great software because they know how the machine works. Apple's business policy is, you should never know how a Mac or an iPhone really works.
You can't even make something in Playgrounds then publish it to the app store. Part of innovation and vision, is curiosity. Thats why the US is so behind in engineering; the US can't even partake in manufacturering because the same system Apple is part of prevents the type vocation from being part of the curriculum.
Being the worlds best bean counter and former SCM guru doesn't necessarily mean squeezing profits out of stale products introduced by his predecessor makes him the worlds greatest.
Anyway, the cracks are already showing: late to services, iPhone not selling like it use to, faulty products like Mac keyboards, iMac still looks like its out of 2007.
Nope. Your $1000+ phone goes into 75 Billion dollar stock buybacks and stuff. So really nowhere.
Wonder what they'll do for parking. There's a Metro station about 5 minutes walk away, but if you need to bring in a 27" iMac (or their future 30"+ monitor) that might be challenging. OTOH, perhaps those customers will go to a more car-friendly location, like Apple's store in the Pentagon City mall.
Yes, as a DC resident that was the first thought I had. You can drive around it all day long but there is just no way to slow down or stop.
Apple serving the creative community? Haha now that is a joke. Overpriced obsolete hardware does not help creatives at all in fact quite the opposite. Borderline offensive, Apple.
Amen to that. Never got this obsession of forced “learn to code” nonsense.
And FAR too many executives of late as well all taking from stock options.
OSX has become macOS which reminds us all of the failings and slow progression to a real networking computer that os was, and now no major advancements. no wonder Betrand left for science - where OS X (NeXT OS) was supposed to and originally designed to excel at has dwindled in kernel improvements besides AFS in the last 8yrs,
It ain't 1977 anymore
The last computers anybody could really fully understand were the 68000s(Mac, Amiga etc) but even then it just had to stop at how things were done inside the chips."Coding" today just means something different, back then you had either primitive APIs or none at all you had to look everywhere to shave of a few CPU cycles or bytes so you stuff would actually run.
Sure it would really be nice if some of the modern stuff was bit more optimized and not just bloatware ontop of more bloatware but thats just not realistic.
So to code today means having a good idea what APIs are available and which/how to use. HW is also so widespread that it doesn't make sense to know it in detail.
Write an app for the latest iOS and it may end up running from anything between an iPhone5s to an XSMax (or even an iPadPro) so you can't make any assumption on amount of RAM, screen real estate etc.
I'm afraid I do. There is no other way it got through every committee (people with ordinarily discerning tastes) that undoubtedly had to approve it prior to release. We live in weird times where (barf) "the medium is the message".
Nah, the spaceship only cost $5 billion.
It was paid off a few months after Apple started building it—years before they moved in—from less than a quarter’s worth of profits.