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Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by blowski » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 6:32 PM UTC

herodotus wrote: post #8

My own little moment of fame: WWDC June 8, 2009, Keynote, 21 minutes and 22 seconds in: Bertrand Serlet says (about improvements to Preview): "We have added lots of little touches. The one I like...we have added a little bit of AI to actually infer the selection" My colleague and I (we co-developed the "little bit of AI") never saw this comment (and the applause) live: we were still lining up outside of Moscone West.…

That must be an amazing feeling! Is this a feature that's still in macOS today? Can I see it in action?

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by mcculley » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 6:33 PM UTC

Mildly ironic: The first video I went to is https://www.applearchive.org/1990-feed/steve-jobs-on-the-lib... which has the caption, "We shouldn't build too many more libraries, instead we should connect towns to the internet to provide access to the Library of Congress". 30 years later and copyright has us not much closer to unlocking the Library of Congress.

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by branon » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 6:35 PM UTC

nslocum wrote: post #9

Check out the employee holiday bonus from 1983: https://www.applearchive.org/1983-feed/apple-holiday-bonus

That's the gift that keeps on giving, the whole year!

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by malkia » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 6:37 PM UTC

Also notable is https://www.folklore.org/ - thatnks for this site!

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by ceejayoz » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 6:37 PM UTC

throwaway2048 wrote: post #10

telegrammae wrote: post #2

Apple's design of 10-15 years ago looks excellent even today. Truly - good design does not lose its attractiveness as styles and standards change. Most icons, fonts, panels, colors of most of their old software and promotional materials look very pleasant, even in low resolution.

the original osx pinstripe look is pretty hideous, and the faux glossy emboss look hasn't aged well either https://images.techhive.com/images/article/2016/01/mac-os-x-...

We'll say the same about flat buttons-that-don't-look-like-buttons too.

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by overlyLogical » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 6:37 PM UTC

Aesthetics are pretty objective despite some people refusing to acknowledge beauty in favor of their own ugly idea.

I don't even like Apple and I can say people like stainless steel more than plastic.

That said, if you bought a product because of the color, I got bad news for you.

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by rvz » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 6:37 PM UTC

For anyone curious about the intricacy of the guidelines of the Apple logo: check this out here: https://www.applearchive.org/1987-feed/apple-logo-standards-...

It goes into absolute depth into the do's and don'ts of their logo, which I find quite frankly interesting to see from a designer's perspective.

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by blowski » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 6:40 PM UTC

alias_neo wrote: post #7

leerob wrote: post #4

The amount of content here is incredible. Did Apple create this, or fans?

It's unofficial, there was a discussion on Reddit yesterday with people asking if the author would provide access the content to archive it in case Apple DMCAs it, to which he gave some childish strop in response about how he deserves the in(fame)y. You'll find it on /r/DataHoarders if you care to look.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ep27pk/probabl...

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by reaperducer » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 6:43 PM UTC

I love the early 2000's Apple aesthetic. I'm not sure if it was actually really good, or I just associate it with a happy time in my life.

I still have an iTunes playlist with all of the music from the dancing silhouette iPod commercials, and I get the warm and fuzzies when I listen to it.

I wish there was a high-quality archive of these commercials online to relive some of those memories. Unfortunately, every time I look for them on YouTube, they're incomplete copies of over-compressed copies of watermarked copies of cropped copies of altered copies of something someone recorded off what looks like low-grade Betamax.

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by herodotus » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 6:44 PM UTC

blowski wrote: post #11

herodotus wrote: post #8

My own little moment of fame: WWDC June 8, 2009, Keynote, 21 minutes and 22 seconds in: Bertrand Serlet says (about improvements to Preview): "We have added lots of little touches. The one I like...we have added a little bit of AI to actually infer the selection" My colleague and I (we co-developed the "little bit of AI") never saw this comment (and the applause) live: we were still lining up outside of Moscone West.…

That must be an amazing feeling! Is this a feature that's still in macOS today? Can I see it in action?

The feature is there. I assume our code is still used, but it may have been rewritten since I retired. You can use this as an example if you like: https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/FNR/FNR-269-W.pdf

(which is random, but you need two columns in the PDF). Try select from column 1 near the bottom, across to column 2.

PDFs are very diverse. Our algorithm does not always work, alas, but it is significantly better than what existed before.

In fact, for some reason, it works well for this document on page 1 and 3 but not so well on page 2! But I no longer have access to the low level tools I used to use to figure out what went wrong.