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The Last-One Edition Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Popular Navigation App For Trucks And Caravans Adds CarPlay Support, by Chance Miller, 9to5Mac

The app offers navigation specially tailored to the specifications of large vehicles like trucks, RVs, campers, and more.

This iPhone App Is The Most Soothing Game I've Ever Played, by Becca Caddy, iMore

I can't tell whether it's the lack of pressure and competition or the gorgeous colors that have made this my go-to game for destressing, the one iPhone app I reach for when I'm feeling overwhelmed on public transport.

National Instruments To Apple Mac: Buh-Bye, by Steven Leibson, Electronic Engineering Journal

National Instruments (NI) recently released a new version of its LabView test automation programming environment for the latest Apple Macintosh computers based on the Arm-based Apple M1 CPU/GPU SoC. At the same time, NI let its customers know that this release would be the last one for Apple Macintosh computers, sending a shock through some portion of the company’s customer base.

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System 7 Mac Emulator Lets You Play With A 1991 Mac On The Web, by Ben Lovejoy, 9to5Mac

Developer Leonardo Russo created the web-based System 7.0.1 emulator, based on the Mini vMac open-source emulator.

Venmo, Cash App Users Sue Apple Over Peer-to-peer Payment Fees, by Mike Scarcella, Reuters

The plaintiffs in the new lawsuit alleged Apple, Venmo and Cash App "have repeatedly raised prices for transactions and services with no competitive check."

They argued that a peer-to-peer app based on "decentralized" crypto technology "would allow iPhone users to send payments to each other without any intermediary at all."

Bottom of the Page

I have fond memories of System 7. If I remember correctly, I first started using Mac seriously (for work) on System 7.5, porting stuff over from Windows and DOS (!). And the one thing that I remember most was how the programming APIs on the Mac was so much better, so much more powerful, so much more sensible, than whatever there was over on the PC side.

Okay, maybe it wasn't entirely fair. I am comparing QuickTime on the Mac with Video for Windows on… well… Windows, and Video for Windows was one of the worst thing to come out from Microsoft during that time. Also, DOS has nothing.

This was also the time when I read Inside Macintosh cover to cover. I think I should read Swift and SwiftUI cover to cover, someday, just for fun.

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