Friday Morning News

[bennyling]

Ping’s original launch seemed so promising: billed as a a social network for artists and their fans, it was a way for both parties to connect on mutual music-loving ground. But even that wasn’t enough, as the service flopped soon after. Rumour has it Apple will have another go at the music-based social network when it launches its new music…

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Originally published at: http://appletalk.com.au/2015/05/friday-morning-news150515/

[Steeley]

@bennyling

Over at Macworld, Jason Snell proposes that it’s time for Apple to drop the “X” moniker from “OS X” and go back to just “Mac OS”.

This does make sense, they’re doubling up the use of ten (or not if you’re uneducated and say “ex”).

@bennyling

Peter Cohen thinks USB-C will be the peripheral connection standard of the future.

Did we hear that about thunderbolt? This one I think might well be the future, but it would have been great if Apple took the interim step of including it as well as standard USB ports on its new MacBook. There’s nothing elegant about adaptors or USB hubs. Having said that there’s nothing elegant about the half dozen USB types we have at the moment either.

[tcn33]

@Steeley

This does make sense, they’re doubling up the use of ten (or not if you’re uneducated and say “ex”).

O S Ten Ten Point Ten