Welcome to the 2nd episode of Memory Protection, where Josh and Matt get serious about the show notes.

This week we discuss: Beige boxes, the iMacification of everything, Apple’s penchant for designing divisive user interfaces and whether or not Steve Jobs is prepping the company for a big sale.

Follow Up:

• Are there still carbon apps in the wild (as of June 2019)? Yes, but MacOS Catalina is the death sentence for Carbon.

Hot Cocoa:

• The PowerMac G3 gets a spec bump
• Sears: a store with different departments that caters to a variety of shopping needs instead of specializing in a single category of consumables, sets up some iMacs. Notice the sign above the iMac display that reads “Brand Central”, amazing.
• Mac cloner makes a profit even after Apple kills the clone Mac market.
• The iMacification of everything is well underway.
  • Behold! The iBrator.
  • Nintendo got into this too.
• Netscape’s history, Matt was somewhat wrong about this.
• Tim Berners Lee, our lord and savior of the World Wide Web is unhappy with where the web is headed. Uh oh!

Apple’s Questionable Design Choices. #shirtButton

• Skeuomorphs & Skeuomorphic Design
• Dribbble.com
• Panic’s Playdate. So excited about Panic in 2019!
• What is the deal with the thumb wheel?
• Interface Hall of Shame - Quicktime 4 Player
• RIP Appearance Manager
  • Gizmo Theme Screenshot
• Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines
• The Hockey Puck Mouse
  • The iCatch

Can Apple Survive?

• Is Apple for sale?
  • From the “yes” perspective
  • From the “no” perspective
• 20 Years ago, Apple was dealing with the same complaints they are now.
• There’s an iMac shortage. Is it due to popular demand? Or is related to that iMac factory fire we talked about last month?
• Blue Ocean Strategy
• Nintendo Wii
• The iMac has no competition
• Not being a Windows user Matt hasn’t edited his registry in over 20 years, is that what you do to change a driver?