And, before major purchases, check to make sure that private equity firm has not bought them.

First iPhone had no App Store: no third-party apps.

Apple _is_ a software company: everything it sells is based on a Mac OS X foundation.

I would buy Mac hardware running Windows long before I would buy x86 hardware running MacOS. In fact Mac OS on x86 was really nothing remarkable. Macs were objectively worse than most Windows PCs during the last few years on x86 at least the laptops were.

“Make people want something, and sell it to them”.

Ignore all environmental, political and social problems, and invest everything in a purely antisocial technology.

Yeah but drugs are illegal.

"Make something, then bribe bosses to shove it down people's throats."

Is there an open—source Swift IDE that can modify itself without restarting? (written in Swift) I loved Oberon µSystems Oberon/F aka Component Pascal for that capability.

Or am I going to have to vibe-code one.

That is a very specific set of requirements. I doubt it.

If you could reimplement Emacs in Swift that’d be great

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

That's only for futures that are easy to invent, for others it is way easier to just bribe or threaten a journalist (works on most journalists, YMMV) to say that you've invented it and then run off with the money before anyone can prove you wrong.

I prefer Richard Hamming’s take: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FF649D0C4407B30

Interesting: 1729 gave me a Database Error the first time, then came back with 34 previous searches

I remember being shocked, albeit not surprised, when I read that he had quite a lot of contact with Ron de Santis.

https://americanoversight.org/email-suggests-that-supreme-co...

Except for both its legs being on the same side of the bike.