Monday Morning News

[bennyling]

You can always tell when the news and rumours surrounding an upcoming product have reached fever pitch, because all the big blogs will start reporting the most frivolous of things. This story from 9to5Mac, for example, says that Apple Retail Stores will be outfitted with safes to house the gold version of the Apple Watch, which will also have a…

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Originally published at: http://appletalk.com.au/2015/02/monday-morning-news020215/

[gehenna]

Wow, RIP TUAW, one of the longest members of my various feeds over the years.

[Steeley]

@bennyling

Speaking of software updates, OS X 10.10.2 was supposed to fix Yosemite’s Wi-Fi issues, once and for all. But Macworld says that’s not quite the case, with many users still seeing Wi-Fi flakiness introduced with Yosemite. What’s worse, the 10.10.2 update also seems to have introduced intermittent kernel panics with Thunderbolt storage devices (thanks, Iain!).

My biggest gripe, still not fixed, is that every time my machine goes to sleep or I undock it from the external monitor, I’ll wake it up and the animations will be very choppy. The only way to fix it is with a reboot. I don’t regret upgrading to Yosemite, I’m just slightly annoyed by all these little roadblocks it has put in my way.