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Une note interne de la part de Tim Cook indique qu’Apple ne va pas abandonner l’ordinateur iMac . Mon Dieu, ça me rassure ! Que diable pourrais-je faire sans l'iMac ? Rédiger mes bouquins généalogiques sur un téléphone ? Ou mieux, ne créer plus rien du tout ? J’espère en toute humilité que le patron ait demandé l’avis du président-élect des Etats-Unis avant de s’exprimer avec autant d’optimisme.

I got my new MacBook Pro this week. These are my first impressions of the machine. I’ve moved from a MacBook Air 13" to a MacBook Pro 13". My dream notebook would have been a 13" version of the 12" MacBook. It’s a shame that Apple didn’t introduce such a machine, but I understand the decision to keep things simple. Accordingly, I changed the planning for my setup: from iMac plus MacBook to MBP plus LG UltraFine 5K display (as a docking station). One benefit of this switch is that I won’t have to wait until new iMacs come out in order to have a large high-resolution display at home. Various observations It feels heavier than the MacBook Air, probably due to its shape. Objectively, the difference in weight is negligible (MBA weighs 1.35kg, MPB weighs 1.37kg). The speakers are surprisingly good for a notebook. Force feedback for clicking the trackpad is an amazing illusion. I could swear that the trackpad moves. Keyboard The keyboard is unusual, but I managed to type w...

Over a year ago, in July 2015, inside my house at Gamone, I suffered a severe accident. After consuming a little too much tasty white wine in the warm weather, I fell down the stairs and bumped my head. As a doctor told me later, I could have easily killed myself. My son François assumed the harsh task of taking a train from Brittany down to my region, and then driving me and my dog back up to Brittany. There, I was housed and cared for, not only by my son, but also by his mother Christine and her companion Michel. It was rough work for them, for several months, since I wasn’t an easy patient. To cut a long story short, I finally survived, thanks to my family and several skilled medical specialists, who patched me up remarkably well. Since I was accompanied to Brittany by my Macintosh computer, I tried as best I could to manipulate it… but some of my previous Internet skills had been bumped into the backwoods by my accident. Personally, I was totally convinced that my basic technical ...

At the moment, all desktop operating systems and all mobile operating systems are remarkably similar. Is there anything genuinely new that could be done in this space? Information management is an area that is still neglected – especially by Apple. But signs indicate that that might change. Where we are The most prevalent way of managing information is still via hierarchical file systems. But file systems are not good at this task: People want to pile, not file. If archiving information can’t be done easily on a computer, people resort to other means such as post-it notes. People want to “pile”, to quickly put information away, whereas a file system forces them to “file” – they have to decide on a file name and on a folder in which to put the file. Hierarchies don’t cut it. What makes filing so annoying on hierarchical file systems is that no single hierarchy works for all use cases. For example, you might want to store your pictures in the folder photos/2012/paris. But w...

Apple recently released a new version of iTunes , iTunes 11. In the words of John Gruber (for Daring Fireball): There are redesigns and there are redesigns . This one’s the real deal. It’s not a rewrite though. Clearly, in its heart, under the hood, this is still the same iTunes. It’s what you see [...] that’s all new. It was time. The old design felt bloated and cluttered. Two general thoughts: iTunes has effectively been split into three applications: the iTunes Store, the Library and iOS device management. iOS device management is only reachable from the Library and could thus be considered a sub-application, but it still exsists in a separate window. I love it. Previously, you had a kludgey integration via the sidebar, now there is a clear separation of responsibility. That opens up the possibility of having separate apps or even of a web-based iTunes Store. Knowing Apple, the latter is not likely, but it would still offer many advantages [1] . I like the user inte...

There is one important area where Android and Windows 8 are ahead of iOS: sharing data between applications [1] . Interestingly the foundations for improving things have already been laid. There are two parts when it comes to sharing: offering data and receiving data. The offering part already exists [2] : many apps have a “sharing” button. For example, things that can be done with the current page in Safari include: Create a bookmark, send the URL via email, tweet the URL. Sharing in Safari on an iPhone However, the receiving part is still limited. iOS has built-in support for email, Twitter and more, but you can’t plug into the system with your own app. That is likely to change soon, as explained in a tweet by @chpwn: New, private iOS 6 feature Apple is using: remote view controllers. For example: the Mail compose view is now run in a separate process. Consult [3] for details. I can’t wait for Dropbox to be a sharing plugin, then you can send files to it from everywhere and from i...

This blog post summarizes what Apple has introduced yesterday. Mac mini Phil Schiller commenting on the introductory slide for this segment: “Mac mini. You knew there would be something called ‘mini’ in this presentation, didn’t you?”. Faster processors, quad core option Mac mini with OS X Server : like the normal high-end model, but with two 1TB hard drives and bundled with OS X Server iMac Screen sizes: 27" and 21.5" Both models still have the same pixel count as previous iMacs. That is, neither of them has a Retina display, which is still too expensive (and possibly not even technically feasible) at this size. 75% less reflective: thanks to anti-reflective coating and the laminated display (which means that the display is closer to the glass). Good to see Apple react to user complaints here. The previous moves away from matte towards very glossy were not a good idea. Fusion Drive: 128GB Flash storage plus 1TB or 3TB hard disk drive (HDD) Ha...