Apple's Feckless Download Protocol

For those of us who live mostly off the grid, with inconsistent WiFi through hosts that flake out frequently, Apple's AppStore download protocol is absolutely infuriating. It's the most brittle damn protocol I've ever seen. When there's any disruption, it simply discards the data it has and starts again. How …

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Sales Person with Principles

My MacBook has an 80Gb drive with less than 2Gb available. A few times I've totally filled the disk and had to spend time judiciously searching and removing old files. Sigh.

I have (and use) external hard drives, but it seems to violate some kind of "laptop" principle to be …

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It used to work... Now they've fixed it.

Apple's Time Capsule rocks.

For a while the Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS) -- with a disk added -- would do the same thing. You got Time Capsule backups seamlessly and continuously.

No more. Version 7.4.2. fixed the "bug". Now the AEBS no longer backs up to a disk.

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Classic / Ancient Bit of Marketing

Found this on a shelf in my office. The Apple 32 Developer's Handbook. It covers the Lisa 2, Lisa 2/5, Lisa 2/10 and the Macintosh. Apple described this family of machines as the SuperMicros.

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It might be a collectable -- it's in pristine condition -- never used as a coaster …

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Apple and Flexibility

"But Apple, stubbornly hanging on to its need to control the user experience, creates meshed hardware and software systems that deprive businesses of the flexibility to find the best balance of hardware, operating system and applications for the job at hand."

Good point, but only half the story.

Apple needs …

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