John Siracusa
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And that's a testament to Apple's, you know, sort of spreading their products across the entire range of shapes and sizes and costs, and also a testament to Apple finally bringing the Mac down, not to the lowest of the low, because the plain iPad is cheaper than the iPad Air, obviously, and the iPhone 17E, I don't think, is the cheapest phone, because you can still buy, like, older models for less, maybe, but, like...
If you have $600 to spend, you can get a phone, an iPad, or a Mac, and all those products that we've listed here are all newly released this week and are all pretty good.
So this was late breaking right before we recorded.
I had a post break containment.
Do you know what that phrase means?
Like go viral?
So there's two phrases here.
One is break containment, which is what Casey basically said, which is like, so you're on social media or blog or whatever.
It's some kind of platform where you publish things that are visible to the world.
And breaking containment means you publish something, a blog post, a toot on Mastodon, whatever, and it got passed around outside the normal circle of people who watch your stuff.
So if you're on social media like on Mastodon, you have people who follow you and they see the things that you toot.
Breaking containment means enough people retweeted it or whatever that now people who have no idea who you are and do not follow you and don't know anything about you start to see this post because it was popular enough and doesn't take much.
Like this wasn't a very popular post.
It was like barely more popular than my average post, but it was just popular enough.
Like if you did the graph of this, it's like breaking containment.
You ever see those graphs of like who's connected to who in a social network?
there's like these little clusters, like little cities where it's like, well, here's all these people and they're mostly connected to each other.
But then there are these bridges to these other circles to like, you know, I don't know what Mastodon look like, but like the Linux people over here and the Apple people over here and like whatever, like whatever groups they're divided up into the people in the US here and then the Europeans here and then like the soccer fans here and then like just all these different little circles.