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• About — Roughly Drafted

  Daniel Eran Dilger I’m DED, and I write about the intersection of Technology and the Liberal Arts. I’ve maintained RoughlyDrafted since the early 2000s, starting with handcrafted HTML and then... iWeb...

• A4 to A5: How Apple outflanked its fragmented rivals in silicon — Roughly Drafted

  In 2008, Apple's new project to deliver the A4 processor for its upcoming iPad positioned it in a race against time and the world's leading mobile chip designers—including Texas Instruments, Qualc...

• Apple's macOS 10.15 Catalina and the future of Macintosh — Roughly Drafted

  Apple's latest macOS 10.15 Catalina release breathes a fresh new vitality into the last seven years of Macs. Should you upgrade on day one?

• A8, A8X: How Apple's custom silicon hit Samsung with a one-two punch — Roughly Drafted

  The year 2014-- when Apple debuted its A8 chip-- might seem like the distant past. Yet it marked a turning point in Apple's struggles with Samsung and created a much larger new playing field for i...

• How Apple survived the flawgic-filled 2010s, butterflies and all — Roughly Drafted

  It's been a wild decade. Ten years ago, Apple was perched at what was imagined to be the peak of iOS, surrounded by Windows PC vendors, Android phone makers, and a chirping brood of analysts and p...

• Why iPad Pro's LiDAR is a big step for Apple in computer vision and AR — Roughly Drafted

  The new LiDAR camera sensor that debuted in Apple's latest iPad Pro this week is an enhancement upon the depth sensing TrueDepth front-facing imaging array that first made its appearance on iPhone...