(2021-04-26) Hon S09e20 Event Horizon Cars And Trucks Shall Never Meet Accountability Snow Crashing Chapter15

Dan Hon: s09e20: Event Horizon, Cars And Trucks Shall Never Meet; Accountability.

Large Software Projects Considered Harmful

news about Horizon, a botched (surprise) GBP 1 billion technology project to upgrade the systems used by the UK’s post office counter service.

Not Actually A Computer, Actually Something Else

Last episode, I wrote about my frustrations with trying to do certain kinds of work on an iPad, and the revelation being that certain kinds of work are difficult to do on an iPad. ((2021-04-23) HonS09e19TheDeviceBecomesTheApp)

realize that Apple are serious, and that the iPad is a qualitatively different computing difference with a different use posture than a general purpose computer, like a Mac.

A Mac is never going to be a device that becomes an app in the way an iPad does

“The majority of our Mac customers have an iPad. That’s an awesome thing. They don’t have it because they’re replacing their Mac, it’s because they use the right tool at the right time.“