My Mac App Store had developed a strange problem: it couldn’t remember that I had installed any of the programs. Thus, it would show the list of all purchases from the store along with the active button that says “Install”, not the button that says “Installed”.
Also, it wouldn’t show updates for any of my installed programs.
I could install any of the programs again — that would work. But almost immediately it forgot that I had installed it. It was like Dory from Finding Nemo.
On Thursday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple will begin producing a Made-in-America Mac sometime next year, but offered few details on when or what, other than saying that it would be an existing Mac product.
Here’s Tim Cook’s interview with Brian Williams of NBC where he discusses it:
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The key quote: “Next year, we will do one of our existing Mac lines in the United States.” But which one?
From c|net:
Windows 8 tablets to be handed out to Emirates’ flight crew
The luxury airline announces that it is delivering 1,000 HP ElitePad 900 tablets to its flight attendants, which will run on Windows 8 and come with a built-in airline-specific business app.
Interesting choice. I would have expected an iPad as first choice, or maybe a Microsoft Surface. I have to wonder how tablet like the custom app will be, or whether it will look more like a windows desktop app…
An amusing story in cnet today:
Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants
Proposed law scheduled for a vote next week originally increased Americans’ e-mail privacy. Then law enforcement complained. Now it increases government access to e-mail and other digital files.
How does a law go from “we’re going to protect your rights” to “we’re going to strip your rights”?