{"id":34139,"date":"2023-12-05T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/?p=34139"},"modified":"2023-12-05T11:33:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T18:33:03","slug":"newsletter-issue-1046-mac-improvements-do-they-make-sense-for-regular-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2023\/12\/newsletter-issue-1046-mac-improvements-do-they-make-sense-for-regular-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #1046 \u2014 Mac Improvements: Do They Make Sense for Regular People?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been following the goings on at Apple Inc. since the 1980s. In those days, I was the eccentric among owners of personal computers (and perhaps I still am). So when I went to a software store (remember them?) and asked about software for my Mac, I was presented with a dismissive look, though an occasional store clerk would absently point me to a barely visible shelf at the rear. It came as no surprise to find just a few titles, some obsolete, and most covered in dust.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m serious. But in those days, I would order software at a discount via a mail order catalog, such as the one from MacWarehouse. \u00a0It was later acquired by another online retailer, CDW.<\/p>\n<p>It got worse by the mid-1990s, when Apple&#8217;s poor leadership almost killed the company. With the release of Windows &#8217;95, announced with The Rolling Stones singing &#8220;Start Me Up,&#8221; the end of the Mac loomed large. But most people probably didn&#8217;t notice some of the telltale lyrics in the song, such as &#8220;You make a grown man cry.&#8221; And when it came to Windows, I totally agreed.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! 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