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    #543: Brought Into Equilibrium with a Reference Environment

    March 12th, 2025 · 75 minutes

    Is the Vision Pro the perfect night computer? Will this year bring a sweeping redesign to Apple's operating systems? Has Apple (accidentally?) built the ultimate desktop computer for AI? Are questions a bad way to write an episode description?

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    Connected Mech

    Brydge - Docking Stations & Keyboards for iPad and Surface
    The downfall of Brydge: Ceasing operations, unpaid staff, more - 9to5Mac
    Brydge Press Release
    A country-level primary-final-useful (CL-PFU) energy and exergy database: overview of its construction and 1971–2020 world-level efficiency results - IOPscience
    Connected Merch | Cotton Bureau
    Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2 - Apple
    Bora Bora was worth the wait! : r/VisionPro
    Change volume, sound, & vibrate settings - Android Help
    Web Apps - visionOS App Store
    Fullmoon
    On-Device AI - App Store
    Apple (AAPL) Readies Dramatic Design Overhauls for iOS 19, iPadOS 19, macOS 16 - Bloomberg
    iOS 19 to bring an all-new design to your iPhone - 9to5Mac
    Apple's New Vision for Software - Spyglass
    Daring Fireball: A New System-Wide UI Look for iOS — Let Alone MacOS, Too — Would Be a Huge Deal
    Widgetsmith
    visionOS Windows | Apple Developer Documentation
    Sheets | Apple Developer Documentation
    The M3 Ultra Mac Studio for Local LLMs - MacStories
    Apple Mac Studio with M3 Ultra Review: The Ultimate AI Developer Workstation - Max Weinbach at Creative Strategies
    Apple Open Source - MLX
    GeForce RTX 5090 Graphics Cards | NVIDIA
    H100 Tensor Core GPU | NVIDIA
    Upgrade #554: Level Zero Promise - Relay
    On Apple Offering an Abstraction Layer for AI on Its Platforms - MacStories