I returned home earlier this morning today from our little beach vacation and I'm a little sleepy and I was really excited to see that we have nothing to talk about tonight.

Oh boy. It's gonna be a real short, real easy show.

That's good that we delayed a day on the recording so your vacation worked out really well.

That is very true actually. You're welcome everybody. You are welcome.

Really before today I thought we already had tons to talk about because since we recorded lots of significant things that we would typically talk about have happened.

Some of them are like, well I guess everyone else has talked with us already so by now maybe we shouldn't talk about some of them but not most of them.

Now we have this amazing.

Oh there's so much happening right now. I am so excited. I can't wait. This is like get the popcorn. I can't wait to see how this goes.

Alright so let's dig in and less dad get mad at me. We should start with follow up and I don't remember who sent this to me and I apologize.

I think it was sent to me and I'm the one who put this in the show notes and I screwed up and didn't leave attribution for myself to remember who sent this but I think it might have been Kyle's the gray.

If it wasn't if it wasn't Kyle. I'm sorry but anyway somebody sent us that Tim Cook does play the game of donating to both sides of the aisle.

We had talked I guess you know four years ago when we spoke last that four years ago slash yesterday depending on how it feels that that Tim Cook we didn't think really played that game that much. It turns out he does and this article written.

No Apple. Apple didn't play that game. That's the distinction we were talking about Apple the company unlike other companies does not give to individual candidates and that's the page that we linked to last episode.

This is about Tim Cook personally I'm sure every employee who works for Apple personally potentially gives to some candidates or another but as the story notes Tim Cook plays both sides.

Yep thank you for interrupting me I'm glad you caught that. Yeah so a very brief excerpt from the article which was written in August of 2016.

Cook is personally given $10,800 to Republican candidates and joint fundraising committee committees and $10,400 to committees on the Democratic side since 2008 according to reports filed with the federal election commission.

While he is by no means a large donor Cook has increased his activity in this election cycle that again that's 2016 with about 90% of those donations coming since April 2015.

So yes thank you for the clarification John and whoever it was that sent this to us. Thank you big sir beta four. There's things that have happened John you want to walk us through it.

It's been a long time talking about the way things look in big sir the the areas where there's making some contrast the various line art designs for everything the difficulty of telling what the active window is all that stuff.

Since then Apple has made at least one significant cosmetic change in big sir beta four which is not out at the time we talked about it.

And that is to change the one thing that I use as an example of really well done attractive styling that does not detract from usability which is the subtle tinting of dark mode windows I guess light mode windows as well.

But I was using dark mode specific specific example where a dark mode window won't actually just be dark gray or black but it will actually have a subtle hint of whatever the dominant color of the desktop background picture is so it will be like dark grayish with a hint of red maybe just just a little subtle you know to make it look not boring right but not in your face and bowling you over it's a little bit less subtle in light mode.

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