Category: 📁 Tech Thinks

I think Google Docs and Sheets should both allow users to directly view, create, edit, and perform other actions on all folders and files within Google Drive, and display these folders as the primary tab or home page in the application, with recent documents a separate tab.

I wonder if Dye & Durham should change its name to a single, short, recognizable word that sounds like it's spelled, possibly with Inc or Software after brand name. I wonder if stock may have performed weakly at least partly due to the length and weakness of brand name.

Imagine if Apple releases a newly redesigned thin and light MacBook Air with a twisting hinge like the Lenovo ThinkBook Twist, a touchscreen display possibly with 120Hz, and the first 2nm M6 chip in 2026, and saves the MacBook Pro touchscreen redesign for the M7 Pro in 2027.

I think Google and search engines may have lost their way when they started using people's location and providing localized results. I want to search the world for the best information when I search for something. If I want local results I'd include location in the search.

I wonder if one reason rumored M6 MacBook Pro with OLED touchscreen might be redesigned like iPad Pro with camera inside bezels and no hole punch is because touching very edge of large displays in front of you may not work well, unlike a small iPhone you hold steady in your hand.

Since MacBook Neo got A18 Pro, iPad Air and Pro have M1 and later, and touch is likely coming to MacBooks, I wonder if Apple might merge iPadOS into macOS, allow all iPad apps on all Macs, and have macOS install on iPads other than mini that have 128GB and M2, A18 Pro, or better.

I still dislike transparent elements, color changing elements, floating elements, and moving elements in UIs. Imagine if light switch on wall was see-through so hard to see, changed colors so hard to recognize, was covering part of TV, and was in a different spot all the time.

I wonder if the rumor about a MacBook with a new 12.9" screen size might actually be a new M-Series or M5 MacBook Air size and design, with the rumored budget A-Series MacBook being a separate device coming another time in either the current 13.6" design or former 13.3" design.

Budget A-Series MacBook Design

I think it's best to name products using the actual release date in which a product is released, so with Apple's upcoming operating systems I would name them using the current year, such as iOS 25 instead of iOS 26 if it's released in 2025.

I would guess that the most likely scenario is the M-Series MacBook gets a redesign first, possibly as a 12.X" device with M5, and then the budget A-Series MacBook gets the "old" 13.6" design. Second most likely is just a budget 13.3", but that design is quite old and colorless.

• M5 will be built on 2nm GAAFET
• M5 uses hybrid bonding chiplets so CPU is 2nm
• M5 MacBooks come out in late 2025
• M5 MacBook Air is Mini-LED, maybe new size/design
• iMac and Mac Mini skip M5, wait for M6?
• Next iPad Pro uses 2nm A-Series Pro?

I love the old iPad mini 5 with its completely flat back, no camera bump, and a naturally uniform screen. I dislike the iPhone mini 13 with a wobbly back, humongous camera bump, and imbalanced intrusive notch. While out of style, I wonder if Steve Jobs would feel the same way.

I wonder if macOS 16 should allow users to move and remove the Finder app from the Dock, and also include it in the Launchpad and Applications folder. For consistency and simplicity, the Trash folder could allow being moved and removed as well, and be included in the locations section of the Finder.

I think Windows, macOS, and other desktop operating systems should have 2 simple keyboard shortcuts to switch to the previous and next open apps by the order in which they appear on the taskbar or dock.

• Tumblr is pronounced tumbler, X is pronounced ex, R is are
• Apple is pronounced apple, Facebook is facebook, Twitter is twitter
• Letters aren't spelled as pronounced, so there is ambiguity saying X
• X is fine, but I think that's one big weakness of the brand "name"

I wonder if Apple should make a separate smart camera device, and design the base model iPhone with a completely flat back and no camera bump in the future.

Instead of using the complicated term process-architecture-optimization for releasing three chip designs on one process node, I wonder if it would be simpler to refer to it as tick-tock-tack, or tick-tock-tack-tuck if there are four chip designs.

• 15.3" - M3 - Notch Design - Upgraded - MacBook Air
• 12.5" - M3 - Notch Design - Added - MacBook mini
• 13.6" - M2 - Notch Design - Discounted - MacBook Air
• 13.3" - M1 - Older Design - Removed - Discounted?

I wonder if the new highest end Mac mini will simply get the new M2 chip, instead of having a Mac mini with an M2 Pro chip. The previous M1 chip could stick around as a lower tier Mac mini, and the M-Series Pro chips would be saved for the Mac Studio.

I wonder who has the better branding for their processor names, Qualcomm with "Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2" or Apple with "M2"?