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Mark Bramhill
Personal blog · macintosh.fmhardwarehistory
Mark Bramhill writes Welcome to Macintosh, a personal blog at macintosh.fm about hardware and history. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Mark Bramhill's Welcome to Macintosh podcast, which covers Apple and Mac history such as the Mac startup sound, Sosumi, the iPhone and emoji design. Commenters link episodes as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A podcast about Apple, its history, and the community around it. By Mark Bramhill.
What Hacker News says?
There's also a episode on https://www.macintosh.fm about the topic that I can recommend.
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on “Show HN: Sosumi.ai – Convert Apple Developer docs to AI-readable Markdown”Submitted Trip to alphaSyntauri: An Apple ][, a synthesizer, the movie TRON, and dolphins as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> Mark Bramhill: It meant nothing. Chrysler even admitted that the majority of it came from just outside Newark, New Jersey — not Corinth. The term was a marketing lie, meant to evoke feelings of old. Somehow, this seems fitting for Find My Friends. The leather made something so conceptually futuristic a little more familiar, even if it was nonsensical. It was a reassuring callback to an old aesthetic. And of course…
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on “The History of the iPhone on its 10th Anniversary [audio]”Submitted New Podcast “Welcome to Macintosh” as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere’s a great Welcome to Macintosh podcast episode[1] that interviews Jim Reekes about this history, highly recommend it. Fun fact, in addition to the iconic startup sound Jim is also responsible for the camera shutter sound on iPhones. [1] https://www.macintosh.fm/episodes/13
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on “Macintosh Startup Sound History [video]”They were offered money by Apple back when. In the end they refused. https://www.macintosh.fm/episodes/12
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on “Playdate – December 2019 Update”On a related note, it's nice to see Mark Bramhill's Person in Lotus Position on this page. He has a nice 3-part podcast series on what it takes to make an emoji: https://www.macintosh.fm/episodes/emoji-1 And 99% invisible did a nice summary interview with him: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/person-lotus-position...
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on “Apple's new gender neutral emojis”There's a great podcast that also has an episode about it. Can highly recommend the whole show. https://www.macintosh.fm
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on “Story of Sosumi and the Mac Startup Sound”
