The Apple Watch was expected, the MacBook not so much, and Apple’s key note was all the better for it. Much of my reading this week was dominated by the Apple announcements but there are a few other gems in there.
- How Apple Makes the Watch
- Why is Apple making a gold watch?
- For Thunderbolt and Lightning, USB-C is very, very frightening – I almost pulled the trigger on a Thunderbolt enclosure and drives recently and relieved I didn’t if USB-C is the new cheaper king in town.
- Apple Engineer Talks about the New 2015 Macbook – amazing insight from the usually secretive Apple
- How to Program Your Mind to Stop Buying Crap You Don’t Need – perfect post for me
- The Cia Campaign To Steal Apple’s Secrets – Breathtaking
- The Orwellian Re-Branding Of “Mass Surveillance” As Merely “Bulk Collection”
- Gotham City SF – always fancied trying similar around Glasgow
- The Long Story Behind Gigaom’s Sudden Demise
- Twitter cuts Meerkat off from its social graph just as SXSW gets started – if developers can’t trust Twitter why should it’s users?
- The magic of SimCity has returned – picked this up on Friday and it’s superb.
- Minecraft’s Markus Persson Tells All On His Sale To Microsoft, His $70 Million Home And What’s Next
- A Beginner’s Guide to the Secret Language of Airport Runways
- A map of all the underwater cables that connect the internet
- Terry Pratchett