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Steve Jobs is rolling in his grave… even if the new iPhone Maps was the most terrible maps app ever, Steve would have pooh-poohed it and declared it the best map app ever.

- my super-astute friend, John Aquino

re: A Letter from Tim Cook…



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…today the iPhone brings in more revenue than the entirety of Microsoft.

No, really.

One Apple product, something that didn’t exist five years ago, has higher sales than everything Microsoft has to offer. More than Windows, Office, Xbox, Bing, Windows Phone, and every other product that Microsoft has created since 1975.

Microsoft’s Lost Decade -Vanity Fair (Aug 2012)


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Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

Steve Jobs

Thank you for the amazing number of new ideas and new memes you put into our heads and our reality. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/24/technology/steve-jobs-patents.html#patent/electronic-device_D558757



What it’s like to own an Apple Product The Oatmeal tells it like it is! thanks to Gary Tivey & Waddey Ibrahim View high resolution

What it’s like to own an Apple Product 
The Oatmeal tells it like it is!

thanks to Gary Tivey & Waddey Ibrahim



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Apple is a cool company, and in line with their user interaction focus (re. innovation) they unveiled the latest edition of SIRI, earlier today.

Here are serious questions I have for SIRI:
Who am I, and where to I live?
What do I like?
How do you know all of this?
Where is that information stored? :-)

the always thoughtful Kingsley Idehen


Visualization of the “bowl of spaghetti” that is smartphone patent lawsuits.from The Knowledge Effect on Thomson Reuters 

Visualization of the “bowl of spaghetti” that is smartphone patent lawsuits.
from The Knowledge Effect on Thomson Reuters 



Nice to see Microsoft learning from (… and gasp… improving on???) Apple sometimes.  This looks like a fine trinket to own. Mashable Review: Microsoft Touchmouse Feels Just Right View high resolution

Nice to see Microsoft learning from (… and gasp… improving on???) Apple sometimes.  This looks like a fine trinket to own.

Mashable Review: Microsoft Touchmouse Feels Just Right



Ah Apple… love, hate, love, hate, … this is the kind of thing I have to love about Apple. Apple’s New Fifth-Avenue Cube Uses Just 15 Giant Sheets of Glass “Apple, famous for pushing materials to their limits in order to make ridiculously thin and strong gadgets, is doing the same for its flagship Fifth Avenue store in New York City. A remodel of the already perfectly good design will see the amount of glass panels of the iconic cube reduced from 90 panes to just 15.” from Wired Gadget Lab View high resolution

Ah Apple… love, hate, love, hate, … this is the kind of thing I have to love about Apple.

Apple’s New Fifth-Avenue Cube Uses Just 15 Giant Sheets of Glass

“Apple, famous for pushing materials to their limits in order to make ridiculously thin and strong gadgets, is doing the same for its flagship Fifth Avenue store in New York City. A remodel of the already perfectly good design will see the amount of glass panels of the iconic cube reduced from 90 panes to just 15.”

from Wired Gadget Lab



Apple’s patent could prevent all OEMs from building tablets “Apple gets an injunction against the Galaxy Tab in Europe based on some very generic line drawings…” (ZDNet)  HUH???  I give Apple a lot of appreciation & credit for driving forward the consumer & mobile electronics in a way that has benefits almost all high tech consumers.  And have always thought of them as an incredibly positive force for creativity & innovation, even if I don’t like (or personally use) some of their “walled garden” products / gadgets / services.  But this kind of thing will turn them into a force that makes the industry much worse, not better.

Apple’s patent could prevent all OEMs from building tablets 
“Apple gets an injunction against the Galaxy Tab in Europe based on some very generic line drawings…” (ZDNet) 

HUH???  I give Apple a lot of appreciation & credit for driving forward the consumer & mobile electronics in a way that has benefits almost all high tech consumers.  And have always thought of them as an incredibly positive force for creativity & innovation, even if I don’t like (or personally use) some of their “walled garden” products / gadgets / services.  But this kind of thing will turn them into a force that makes the industry much worse, not better.



Beyond the scoring-easy-points-for-being-a-contrarian stance, this an interesting analysis of consumer sentiment

 

Has Apple’s Brand Reached a Tipping Point?
http://blogs.forbes.com/johndragoon/2011/03/07/has-apples-brand-reached-a-tipping-point/
By John Dragoon via Forbes