Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about obsolescence. Do older machines really have to be cut off from the latest OS and application updates? Does higher-level software design (and open source data formats) help or hurt?
Links:
- Andrew Pontious tweet: “I’ve resigned myself to a certain futility about retweeting something from a person who has many more followers than I do.”
- The Road Back to Tumblr « Red Sweater Blog
- Hibari: A Mac Twitter client with keyword filtering, muting, inline saved search results, inline conversions, tweet lookup, and more
- Obsolescence « Wikipedia
- Planned obsolescence « Wikipedia
- Market segmentation « Wikipedia
- Andrew Pontious tweet: “Sad to see all those dead PowerPC apps on my machine.”
- VMware Fusion: Run Windows on Mac, Virtualization for Mac Lion
- Macintosh 128K « Wikipedia
- Package (OS X) « Wikipedia
- Zip (file format) « Wikipedia
- SQLite Home Page
Rejected Episode Titles:
- Retweet Away to That Good Night
- RAM Used to Be My Bottleneck
- Confusing You With That Other Andrew
- Core Data in a Jar
- All This Dancing Around Doesn’t Come for Free
- Throwing Themselves out of Four-Story Infinite Loop Windows
- Long Story Short: I Agree with You
- All Those Machines That Still Light Up and Work
- Hoping x86 Would Die a Long Time Ago
- Which Is Terrible, and No One Should Use It
- If You’re Lucky, You Get V-Tables
- The Original 128K Could Think About 4,000 Objects
- The Bad Old Days of Binary Formats
- Straining the Future Edge of Things