![]() Landscape printing and search-and-replace were innovations at one point. Search-and-replace within a spreadsheet was a separate $200 standalone utility. Back then, itĬost the equivalent of $150 in 2019 dollars. ![]() Today, it’s an option in the print dialogue box. In 1988, this application let you print spreadsheets… sideways. You can say that’s a shame, but it’s hard for me to buy that Tile has been wronged. If your idea doesn’t have room for an enthusiast/professional/power user tier - hello, Tile - again, maybe it wasn’t that great an idea in the first place, or it was simply a good idea whose time as a viable product has passed. Target the enthusiast/professional/power user market. If they do, you should be ready to keep your product viable by going further than the platform maker is willing to go. If they don’t, maybe it wasn’t that good an idea in the first place. If you have a good idea for a third-party product on a big platform, you need to expect that the platform maker will eventually use your idea. If the answer to the question “ Would this add-on be better, and be useful to many users, if it were built into the system?” is yes, you should expect it to be built into the system sooner or later. Everything about AirTags is better than Tile, if you’re an iOS user. ![]() The problem for a company like Tile - to name one high-profile company that is not pleased by Apple’s entry into its market - is that location tags are inherently simple, and Apple’s Find My network is bigger and better than Tile’s device network. ![]() LaunchBar/Alfred/Raycast keep the simple things simple but also make complex things possible (to borrow a line from Larry Wall and Alan Kay). Spotlight is designed for everyone to use - it’s simple and only does simple things. 1 The trick to remaining useful as a Spotlight-like utility after Apple built Spotlight into the OS is to do more. Yet today there are a number of Spotlight-like utilities for the Mac that continue to thrive, despite Spotlight being built into the system - LaunchBar, Alfred, and newcomer (and recent DF sponsor) Raycast, to name just three. A feature like Spotlight is table stakes now, even though Watson was incredibly innovative 20 years ago. And today, it’d be silly to consider MacOS or iOS without Spotlight. Apple was already on the path of building a system-wide search feature into MacOS. But as Brownlee notes, the version of Sherlock that drew inspiration (to say the least) from Watson was Sherlock 3. The small innovators need to adapt or die (or get acquired, and become the built-in version).īrownlee cites Watson, which Apple famously “Sherlocked”. The best of those ideas - ideas that truly would be better “built in”, eventually do get built in. Smaller companies make products that build upon, or fill gaps within, platforms from larger companies. The basic idea is evergreen, and is in no way specific to Apple. Take a break and watch it if you haven’t already - like everything from MKBHD, it goes down easy. Marques Brownlee has a great video this week on Apple’s ability to disrupt product categories with better integration. I'm not sure how intense your demands are on your machines, but it probably isn't higher than Dwight's.Apple and the Built-In Advantage Tuesday, If not, then buying the 512Gb chips is more financially responsible. If you think you'll have the machine long enough to need more than 3.5Gb, then I'd go with 1Gb chips as you need them. The optimal situation would be adding ram during its life and using the last slots just before retiring the machine. I keep in mind how long I expect to keep my CPU. We need more and more ram as apps get more complex. I have 3.5 Gb - still the cheapest overall solution working with what they give you plus 512mg chips in the other slots - and with Photoshop running hot it still does not run out. You just don't want anyone to have more pixels than you! Anybody who owns two of them will have Carpal Tunnel Neck - you know it: the bouncing head doggies in back windows of Hong Kong girlie cars. The 30" cinema display is the most any normally sighted person can look at - it fills the visual field. You really do have to analyze your use and determine just what you need. Sure, but who only has one app open at a time? I was being rather flippant with my answer, but Dwight's point is well-taken. ArchiCAD can still only address 2Gb of RAM.
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