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John Siracusa

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Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

And so I've installed...

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

the iPad app on my Mac and use it every great once in a while.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

I don't think there's any easy way for me to tell.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

Is there what other apps I have installed?

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

So I don't even know.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

I can't think of any others off the top of my head.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

Oh, I did use that all the time.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

And then I mostly just use my phone, either with the phone speaker, as god awful as that is, or occasionally via iPhone mirroring.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

That's a good point.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

Tell me that you are a mouse user without telling me you're a mouse user because I โ€“

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

As a trackpad or touchpad, whatever it's called, user, I don't have any problems with doing swiping on the Mac.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

All right, and then finally tonight, Michael Bresher Jr.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

writes, if you were in charge of the Mac and iPhone software teams, how would you all balance new features needed to keep up with the industry with keeping design native to people who have used the Mac for over 30 years like John?

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

Also, would you all move to a one and a half or two year cycle for the OSs?

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

This is a tough thing, right?

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

And this is what makes engineering so fun and so challenging is figuring out the right balance.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

And I don't know, I feel like for me,

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

If things are new, that doesn't immediately bother me.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

So as a silly example of this, Volvo just released for Aaron's car a new version of the infotainment software that really aggressively rejiggers where everything is on screen.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

And in some ways, I think that the rearranged deck chairs are an improvement, right?