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Okay, I think I've got this figured out. Can someone check my working? https://imgur.com/a/GVdsG7r Color key: Green: Apple set-top box Yellow: App for Apple set-top box Orange: App for other Apple devices Red: App for third-party devices Yellow/Orange/Red stripe: App generally across all platforms Violet: Integrated external subscription content Blue: Apple subscription content Violet/Blue stripe: Content generally R…
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Microsoft's email services are still a naming mess. Live, Outlook and Hotmail all seem to be interconnected, and I don't really know what differentiates them anymore.
Hotmail is the spammy one. Live is the one for gaming. Outlook is the business one.
But the mail client on windows is not outlook, that’s just windows mail.
Okay, I think I've got this figured out. Can someone check my working? https://imgur.com/a/GVdsG7r Color key: Green: Apple set-top box Yellow: App for Apple set-top box Orange: App for other Apple devices Red: App for third-party devices Yellow/Orange/Red stripe: App generally across all platforms Violet: Integrated external subscription content Blue: Apple subscription content Violet/Blue stripe: Content generally R…
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Apps and Games, genius.
Oh, because people are regularly installing the 7.8GB Xcode update? Aside from the fact that I doubt anyone downloads that many apps, from my understanding Apple TV makes you use on-demand resources for anything above 4GB. That means that old resources automatically get flushed out, so the actual benefit of those extra 32GB is more of caching-feeling behavior.
There are quite a few storage hungry apps least of all the screen savers.
Remember when .NET came out? Everything was .NET. As a result, no-one really had any idea what .NET actually was. Eventually we figured out it was "Microsoft's Java". Windows also went through a phase in which seemingly everything was Windows.
Apple needs to have the marketing people who come up with California-based macOS names sort this out. If they solved the cat naming crisis then surely they can clean up this mess.
They solved the cat-naming crisis? I missed that memo!
- Cheetah
- Puma
- Jaguar
- Panther
- Tiger
- Leopard
- Snow Leopard
- Lion
- Mountain Lion
- Mavericks
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Or Watson
For sure, although whereas the Websphere-ing of the product line seemed like a plausible effort at consistent branding, Watson feels more like a cynical measure to appear relevant, but nobody's buying it. On the "active" bandwagon, I forgot to mention Active Directory, which is kind of funny given that I spent the better part of a decade specializing in development and projects largely oriented around AD and ADFS, an…
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Microsoft has gone through some pretty dark times w.r.t. naming stuff. Up there with "Windows" everything and absurdities like ".net Passport" was their unslakable thirst for "Active." ActiveX, Active Server Pages, Active Data Objects. However, none of it holds a candle to IBM's mania for making everything "Websphere."
Dark times are still happening. Right now they're renaming everything Azure regardless of whether it's part of their cloud offerings. Also, Live was another Microsoft naming phase. For me, the canary in the coal mine of ms naming is their messenger. Msn messenger, live messenger, Skype, Skype for business, Teams... I assume the next iteration will be named Azure Teams.
Remember when .NET came out? Everything was .NET. As a result, no-one really had any idea what .NET actually was. Eventually we figured out it was "Microsoft's Java". Windows also went through a phase in which seemingly everything was Windows.
That's not even the best example. .NET Core vs. .NET Standard was a wtf?