Not sure when I’ll do it otherwise, but if my 5K iMac craps out I will buy probably a 5K Dell or LG monitor, build a brand new Windows 10 box (alas) as Apple has clearly abandoned the Mac as an ecosystem.

They see it as necessary, but it wasn’t. They easily could have owned a larger and larger percentage of the consumer and business workstation market by catering to this segment. Instead, they are just going to throw away tens of billions of dollars of revenue thoughtlessly.

There still is an always will be an absolutely huge market or power users who will pay a damn lot of money for a decent machine — why do you think Microsoft is releasing the $3,000 Surface Studio desktop? They recognize Apple is abandoning that market altogether.

Yep, Apple just handed Microsoft the keys to the kingdom.

That Apple doesn’t understand that though computers are a small part of their revenue, they are the key to their ecosystem is just mind-boggling. To this day, you can only develop iOS apps on a Mac for instance.

Without Steve Jobs, it was inevitable for Apple to decline and make bad decisions as internecine wars took over. Just sad to see it happen.

Time for more Héloïse Letissier.

Such a beautiful song lyrically. Poetry better than most written in any language by “real” poets.

Interview with her (in English).

Even the YouTube comments about her are better than usual. Says it perfectly:

Technocrats operating with all data and no history are less tractable than evil, as evil almost by definition has a goal, an objective. Even if it insane, apocalyptic or deleterious to human health, something with a goal can be resisted and defeated.

Big Data’s ahistorical adherents have the “truth” in the data and the obvious-to-them veracity of their algorithms on their side, which in their minds removes the need for any more nuanced or contextual understanding. They are not evil because they do not even have the cultural or historical comprehension to proceed this far; in that, they are like children with a dangerous weapon they see as a toy: goalless but casually destructive.

Technocratic rule by misapplied data science shows exactly why we need the humanities now more than we ever have.