Archive for the 'Apple' Category


Today’s Fandom

Is not yesterday’s fandom. Every other day I have people attacking me for what I said about Taylor Swift’s performance at the Grammys over a decade ago. When I research further, I find that most of these people were barely born when this happened. But they need to defend their hero. But Taylor Swift was […]

Meta/Facebook Crash

Turns out buying your way into the future is a bad strategy. The biggest story this week for me was Facebook (I refuse to call it “Meta,” I’m on the fence with calling Google “Alphabet”) dropping out of the crypto game. Facebook wasn’t first. Facebook had infrastructure. But when confronted with the concept of Facebook […]

Mailbag

From: Chris Kimsey Subject: Re: Wild World Hi Bob ,What a joy to read your blog about Cat Stevens and Mona Bone Jackon . I was the assistant engineer on the album . It was recorded at Olympic Studio 2, with Paul Samwell-Smith producing and George Chkiantz engineering. That album and those songs shaped my […]

The Apple Keynote

https://www.apple.com/apple-events/september-2021/ It played like a commercial. Actually, the product introduction was not the biggest Apple news today, no, that was the security update, to deal with an Israeli snooping program that infiltrated your device without any clicks, without you doing anything. It could listen and see you and… The best account of what transpired is […]