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True story: I put the dark version of this wallpaper on my iPhone 13 Pro review unit. New iPhone? Looking for new wallpaper? Basic Apple Guy has a nifty new one. Don’t hide the formatting characters just style/color them. It’s just styled nicely if you write that plain text in Markdown. Effectively, the notes field for tasks in Things is still just plain text. It doesn’t hide the Markdown formatting characters, it just styles them. In fact, in recent years I think Markdown is in use in far too many places where something truly WYSIWYG is called for. You might think that as the creator of Markdown, that I’m in favor of seeing it in use everywhere. Things Support for Markdown ★Ĭultured Code’s renowned to-do app Things added support for Markdown back in August. Mac OS” - but to pay him for every time we didn’t use it … If it was just us saying, “OK, we’ll pay you every time we use the “Steve’s proposal would have been interesting Larger business customers, didn’t really want the Mac operating Math just didn’t work, because most of our customers, especially “The royalty he was talkingĪbout would amount to hundreds of millions of dollars, and the
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The Mac OS alongside Windows on every Dell PC and let customersĭecide which software to use - and then pay Apple for every Dellĭell smiles when he tells the story. Instead, Dell says, Jobs suggested he just load Undermine Apple’s own Mac computer sales because Dell computers But Jobs had aĬounteroffer: He was worried that licensing scheme might Licensing fee for every PC sold with the Mac OS. To me it just sounds like Michael Dell spinning up a tale that makes it seem as though Dell has been the least bit relevant in the last 25 years.ĭell thought it was a great idea and told Jobs he’d pay a (Which looked pretty good.) If Rhapsody wasn’t ready for Apple customers in 1997 (or 1998!) how in the world was it going to work for Dell customers?
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Apple itself didn’t ship anything based on NeXT’s software until Mac OS X Server in 1999 and the subsequent “developer previews” - releases that still used the classic Mac OS Platinum appearance. In the ink-was-still-drying period after the Apple-NeXT reunification in late 1996, the next-gen OS based on NeXTStep was codenamed “ Rhapsody”, and, well, it wasn’t in any shape to be licensed to anyone in 1997. In 1997, Mac OS X hadn’t even been conceived yet. I’m not saying Dell is lying, but the timeline on this doesn’t add up. “He said, look at this - we’ve got this Dell desktop and
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Mac software, based on Next’s Mach operating system, and had it (as Jobs was evaluating Apple’s Mac clone licensing project, In 1997, Jobs rejoined a struggling Apple after it acquired Nextįor $429 million, and he pitched Dell on another business proposal Michael Dell Claims Steve Jobs Tried to License Rhapsody to Dell in 1997 ★ĬNet’s Connie Guglielmo, writing about a bit from Michael Dell’s new autobiography, Play Nice But Win: Keep in mind I linked earlier today to a survey that suggests 30 percent of U.S. “They became a financially-focused company veryĮffective at milking its faithful users,” he added.Įnderle, in May 2015 - mere weeks after Apple Watch shipped - declared it “obsolete” and a month later called it a “failure”. Revolutionize a market,” said Tech industry analyst Rob Enderle ofĮnderle Group. “Apple lost the ability to bring out products that could Rob Enderle, Still Kicking, Still Jackassing ★įrom a Yahoo News story that’s as insipid as you suspect it is from the headline (“Decade After Jobs’ Death, Has Apple Traded Magic for Profit?”):īut are these game-changing innovations in the post-Jobs era?