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Android Lollipop
“It gave Android its paper feel, and Android never looked back.”
“It backed up everything, including, eventually, itself.”
The AirPort Time Capsule was a wireless router with a secret: a built-in server-grade hard drive, making it an AirPort Extreme that also kept your life backed up. Apple called it a 'Backup Appliance,' designed to pair with Time Machine on Mac OS X Leopard, so backups just quietly happened. From the 500 GB base model in 2008 to the 3 TB, 802.11ac version of 2013, it was the box you plugged in, forgot about, and were g
The end came without drama: Apple disbanded its wireless router development team in 2016, and in 2018 the entire AirPort line, Time Capsule included, was discontinued. It had been upgraded alongside the Extreme series for a decade, but there was no successor waiting in the wings. For many Mac households, it remains the appliance that saved their files and asked for nothing but a power outlet and a shelf.
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“It gave Android its paper feel, and Android never looked back.”
“Fifteen thousand subtitled stories, one final subtitle: The End.”
“It lived, it lived again, and its photos lived too.”