Comment from Michael E. Cohen
If only the Apple ecosystem made it possible for you to download chicken soup! Feel better, Adam!!
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
Thanks—it took me several hours longer than it should have to write the article, and when I finished, I literally collapsed into bed (ran out of power and had to finish writing on the iMac for 20...
View ArticleComment from Tommy Weir
Be well Adam. It's also interesting to see a corporation embrace philosophically the extension of human identity into the devices it creates. A redrafting of the borders within which we flow. It was...
View ArticleComment from Rebecca Wilson
Happy 26th, Tidbits! Hard to believe you're that old already, I remember when you were just a sparkle in Adam & Tonya's minds. I suspect the FBI knew how to break into the phone all along but...
View ArticleComment from B. Jefferson Le Blanc
You are mistaken on one point: Governments have always been about firefighting rather than principle. Every forceful government action has only ever been in response to a crisis of one kind or another,...
View ArticleComment from B. Jefferson Le Blanc
Actually, the polls showed that public opinion was largely on the side of the FBI. They backed off, in my opinion, because their legal standing was losing ground as the courts turned against them. And...
View ArticleComment from B. Jefferson Le Blanc
Adam, I think the meme of an Apple car is overblown. Apple, like Google and others, is working on the artificial intelligence that will be driving smart cars. Like Google, Apple will rely on extant...
View ArticleComment from Patrick Snook
Hi Adam,Happy Birthday!It's a trivial pedantic thing: if this is the Tidbits 26th anniversary, you're heading into your *27th* year (not 26, as you wrote).Get well and keep going!Cheers!Patrick
View ArticleComment from Josh Centers
The polls were all over the place. Initially, it looked as though public opinion was on the side of the FBI. Later polls showed public opinion in favor of Apple, while some showed it leaning toward the...
View ArticleComment from Tonya Engst
Hi Becky! Of course, helping out with Ithaca's MUGWUMP Mac user group and watching your fingers fly across the keyboard as you issued keyboard shortcuts to make PageMaker do its magic was one of...
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
Becky! So nice to hear from you - it has been a long time since we were all doing MUGWUMP stuff. I've actually been doing more in InDesign recently, so Tonya's comment about watching you "play"...
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
I do think Apple has found working with the carmakers frustrating with CarPlay, which would seem to be an easier sell than a fully Apple-driven car.
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
Hah! If that's the worst mistake I made when writing while sick, I'm happy. It's also a mistake we've made on more than one occasion in these articles in the past - date-related text is my personal demon.
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