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Apple’s Knowledge Navigator concept video (1987) (via) I learned about this video today while engaged in my irresistible bad habit of arguing about whether or not "agents" means anything useful.

It turns out CEO John Sculley's Apple in 1987 promoted a concept called Knowledge Navigator (incorporating input from Alan Kay) which imagined a future where computers hosted intelligent "agents" that could speak directly to their operators and perform tasks such as research and calendar management.

This video was produced for John Sculley's keynote at the 1987 Educom higher education conference imagining a tablet-style computer with an agent called "Phil".

It's fascinating how close we are getting to this nearly 40 year old concept with the most recent demos from AI labs like OpenAI. Their Introducing GPT-4o video feels very similar in all sorts of ways.

# 22nd October 2024, 4:40 am / apple, youtube, ai, openai, generative-ai, llms, ai-agents, ai-history

Through the Ages: Apple CPU Architecture (via) I enjoyed this review of Apple’s various CPU migrations—Motorola 68k to PowerPC to Intel x86 to Apple Silicon—by Jacob Bartlett.

# 30th October 2023, 10:56 pm / apple, computer-history

Apple now receives an estimated $8 billion to $12 billion in annual payments — up from $1 billion a year in 2014 — in exchange for building Google’s search engine into its products. It is probably the single biggest payment that Google makes to anyone and accounts for 14 to 21 percent of Apple’s annual profits.

Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet

# 26th October 2020, 3:10 am / apple, google

What design techniques does Apple use in the introduction page of iPad Air?

Apple used the same technique on their Apple—Mac Pro page. I first saw this trick used on the BeerCamp at SXSW 2011 page.

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Why didn’t Apple release a gold (champagne) iPad?

According to John Gruber: http://daringfireball.net/2013/1...

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This is very interesting technology. But that Adobe would go to this length suggests that they suspect that Apple will never allow the Flash runtime on the iPhone.

John Gruber

# 6th October 2009, 7:33 am / adobe, apple, flash, iphone, john-gruber

A Roundup Of Leopard Security Features (via) Thomas Ptacek’s overview of the new security features in Leopard. Guest Accounts are worthless from a security P.O.V., but I still plan to use one for our PowerBook that’s now just a media player.

# 31st October 2007, 5:30 pm / apple, leopard, osx, security, thomas-ptacek

How Time Machine works. From John Siracusa’s Leopard review. The bad news is that Time Machine doesn’t deal well with huge files that have small changes made to them... such as Parallels VM images.

# 29th October 2007, 9:56 am / apple, arstechnica, john-siracusa, leopard, osx, parallels, timemachine, virtualisation

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review. John Siracusa’s 17 page review of Leopard, covering everything from UI tweaks to DTrace sample code. Smart use of embedded video and audio too—I suggest setting aside at least an hour to work through it all.

# 29th October 2007, 8:55 am / apple, arstechnica, dtrace, john-siracusa, leopard, osx

CSS Transforms. WebKit can now do transforms (scale, rotate, translate and skew) in CSS via a new -webkit-transform property. Transforms behave like position relative in that they don’t affect the layout of the page. You can also provide a full affine transform matrix as a shortcut.

# 26th October 2007, 9:45 pm / affinetransformation, apple, browsers, css, graphics, matrix, safari, transforms, webkit

WebKit Does HTML5 Client-side Database Storage. SQLite strikes again. The WebKit team have included a neat update to their Web Inspector that lets you browse and modify your client-side databases.

# 20th October 2007, 12:03 pm / apple, html5, offline, safari, sqlite, webinspector, webkit, whatwg

Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers' hands in February.

Steve Jobs

# 17th October 2007, 6:04 pm / apple, developers, iphone, john-gruber, sdk, steve-jobs

Apple—Web apps. Interesting (and slightly confusing) to see Apple choose “Web apps” as the term for applications targeted at the iPhone and iPod touch.

# 11th October 2007, 8:40 pm / apple, iphone, ipod, ipodtouch, webapps

I thought the big draw for Apple hardware was that "It Just Works." By breaking it, you must know you’re giving up the "Just Works" factor, so what’s left? Rounded corners?

Mark Pilgrim

# 5th October 2007, 4:32 pm / apple, mark-pilgrim