If You Had To Choose Just One – Apple Hardware Or Apple Software?

Ellen Pao’s Statement On Losing The Kleiner Perkins Case: “The Battle Was Worth It”On this week’s episode, we discuss both a lengthy profile of Tim Cook, as well as a full biography of Steve Jobs. We also cover some concrete announcements, including the open-sourcing of React, Facebook’s (potentially better than UIKit) UIKit alternative, and the acquisition of database company FoundationDB by Apple, and what that might mean.
But wait, that’s not all! We also tackle new rumors of a 4-inch iPhone 6c that surfaced this week, and look at the possibilities that might arise from a new patent applied for by Apple for smart packaging that lets users set up, secure and even purchase devices before ever taking them out of the box or speaking to a sales associate.
Finally, we ask the question first posed (or at least, most notably posed) by John Gruber back in a 2012 thought experiment: Forced to choose, would you opt for Apple hardware running other (Android/Windows software), or Apple software (running on Windows/Android hardware), all other factors being equal? Let us know either way, and find out what we’d choose below.
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TC AppleCast 5: That Crazy Apple Car Maybe Isn’t So Crazy

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TC AppleCast 4: The Apple Car, iOS 9 And Photos For OS X

Apple could be building a car, apparently, so naturally we had to talk about that. It seems likely Apple would want to anticipate a future where cars fall within a tech company’s purview, so in that regard it isn’t surprising. But Apple working on something doesn’t always equal Apple shipping something, no matter how much we may wish it were true.
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We also cover Photos, which is very much a real thing, and which will ship to OS X users starting this spring via a free update to Yosemite. It’s a solid improvement on iPhoto, which is really beginning to show its age and has trouble with libraries that are dwarfed by the collections of many mobile photographers out there. Our first impressions reveal that Apple is probably doing exactly what it needs to with its new desktop picture program.
Finally, we tackle iOS 9, which reports this week suggest could be a Snow Leopard-style update designed to improve the general performance and reliability of Apple’s mobile platform. That could be a very good thing, and this might be the perfect year for Apple to do it, too, given the success of the iPhone 6 and the position of its closest competitors.
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