3 month ago
Rod Begbie : Gates vs. Jobs The Game // Current - Some geek silliness on the Current site. #
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13 month ago
plasticbag : Awesome! Fake Steve Jobs has said what I've been arguing in TV circles for bloody ages. - I mean he's a bit aggressive and stuff, but long-term there is limited future in broadcasting. The future's in content production. The sooner some of them figure that out the better! It's all about the rights, bitches!
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16 month ago
factoryjoe : Blackfriars' Marketing: Dissecting Steve Jobs' reality distortion field - A great breakdown of Steve Job's performance at keynotes. Tags: steve jobs, presentation, keynote, wwdc, public speaking
Rod Begbie : Blackfriars' Marketing: Dissecting Steve Jobs' reality distortion field - Good breakdown of some of the things Steve Jobs does that makes him such a compelling presenter. [via] #
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16 month ago
43folders : Fake Steve: At this point even I'm sick of the iPhone - "It won't cure cancer or regrow your hair or make you lose weight. For that you'll need Linux, from what I'm told."
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16 month ago
plasticbag : Gruber on the WWDC Keynote yesterday... - The only thing I disagree about is the coverflow thing. I can see a lot of cases where rapidly scanning through a large number of files would be profoundly useful.
Cameron Moll : On web apps as iPhone apps - John Gruber: "Telling developers that web apps are iPhone apps just doesn’t fly. Think about it this way: If web apps -- which are only accessible over a network; which don’t get app icons in the iPhone home screen; which don’t have any local data s
factoryjoe : Daring Fireball: WWDC 2007 Keynote News - Web Apps as the Route for iPhone Development Perhaps it’s playing well in the mainstream press, but here at WWDC, Apple’s “you can write great apps for the iPhone: they’re called ‘web sites’” – message went over like a l
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17 month ago
Rod Begbie : VIDEO: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Highlight Reel | D5 | AllThingsD - Clips from their joint interview (the full interview is also available). BillG clarifying he's not Fake Steve Jobs is one of the most bizarre, awesome and meta things I've heard in a long time. #
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17 month ago
Cameron Moll : The Secret of Apple Design - The Secret of Apple Design. "'The most fundamental thing about Apple that's interesting to me,' [Mark Rolston] says, 'is that they're just as smart about what they don't do. Great products can be made more beautiful by omitting things.'"
adamrg : Apple Design - An interesting look at design and what makes good design. (Answer: Steve Jobs.)
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20 month ago
gleuschk : Steve Jobs talking on an iPhone tucked in his front pocket on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - ooh, a sighting in the wild
Matthew M. Boedicker : picture of Steve Jobs at a kids soccer game using an iPhone? - (via del.icio.us/gleuschk) [via]
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20 month ago
plasticbag : Interesting old piece of video from Steve Jobs about Microsoft and their lack of taste... - "I'm saddened ... not by their success, which I think they've earned ... for the most part ... I'm saddened by the fact that they just make really third rate products..."
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21 month ago
plasticbag : Presentation Zen writes about Steve Jobs at Macworld and the stinking presence of Cingularity - Doing good talks is something that I wish I knew more about. Mine go quite well, but they cost me so much in preparation that I have to do them a few times to make them worth the time they take to write...
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21 month ago
43folders : M:Metrics Analyst Seamus McAteer Is a Moron [Daring Fireball] - "I mean holy shit, how stupid does an analyst have to be before a reporter decides he’s just too dumb to be quoted?"
wearehugh : "Holy shit, how stupid does an analyst have to be before a reporter decides he’s just too dumb to be quoted?" - Stupid enough to contradict the reporter's story angle. (This has been another edition of "rhetorical answers to rhetorical questions.")
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21 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Sharecroppers - Sharecroppers: "Steve Jobs doesn’t build platforms, except by accident. He doesn’t care about your thriving metropolis. All you independent Mac developers: you’re all sharecroppers, and your rent just went up. Way up."
43folders : Sharecroppers [dive into mark] - "All you independent Mac developers: you’re all sharecroppers, and your rent just went up. Way up."
plasticbag : Mark Pilgrim has a rather negative view of Steve Jobs' announcement about iPhone software - I'm a bit new to this particular shitstorm that seems to be coursing over the internet, but it seems to me that this is no more or less spectacular than Nokia's requirement that you get applications signed before they can be run on Series 60...
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21 month ago
jimray : Smithsonian interview with Steve Jobs from 1995
jkottke : Lengthy interview with Steve Jobs from 1995 - Lengthy interview with Steve Jobs from 1995. "I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."
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21 month ago
43folders : Isn't this cool? To Apple faithful, it certainly is [SF Gate] - In this instance, poor Mr. Mayer was used as what vaudevillians used to call a "chaser."
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24 month ago
Linkorama : No iPod DRM Backlash? - At one point you were saying, “When our customers demand it, that's when we'll consider interoperability.†Jobs: Nobody's ever demanded it.
Rod Begbie : Q&A: Jobs on iPod's Cultural Impact - Newsweek - Steve Jobs: "I've seen the demonstrations on the Internet about how you can find another person using a Zune and give them a song they can play three times. It takes forever. By the time you've gone through all that, the girl's got up and left! You're muc #
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25 month ago
Rod Begbie : Steve Jobs: "And Boom!" - And Boom! [via] #
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25 month ago
43folders : Daring Fireball: Showtime: The Big Picture - "The reality distortion field isn’t something he projects willfully; it’s an extension of his own certainty."
Cameron Moll : Showtime: The Big Picture - DF: Showtime: The Big Picture. On overcoming digital movie issues, why Jobs' on-stage enthusiasm varies, and state of the iPod/iTunes empire. Couldn't agree more with this: "Vaporware pre-announcements distract customers from currently available products,
jkottke : John Gruber's latest piece contains a keen insight on Steve Jobs and his legendary reality distortion field - John Gruber's latest piece contains a keen insight on Steve Jobs and his legendary reality distortion field. "Jobs, in my opinion, is a terrible liar and a poor actor. When he's able to convince people of things that aren't true, or that are exaggerations
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25 month ago
merlinmann : Steve and Steve in 1976 - The Steves in '76. Looking just a bit like Steely Dan.
Matthew M. Boedicker : picture of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976 - (via del.icio.us/merlinmann) [via]
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30 month ago
plasticbag : Think Secret posts notes from Apple shareholders' meeting - Most notable for the last line in my opinion and the (albeit tiny) response to questions about Microsoft's Media Centre - a territory I've said repeatedly that Apple should just be invading right about now...
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31 month ago
Andy Baio : Video: Steve Jobs demos NeXTSTEP Release 3 in 1992 - keep in mind, Windows 3.1 was released the same year
Rod Begbie : YouTube - NeXTSTEP Release 3 Demo [via] #
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32 month ago
plasticbag : YouTube has some video of no doubt dodgy IP of the notorious Apple keynote where Steve Jobs announced a huge deal with Microsoft... - The audience were far far far from happy about the whole thing. In retrospect it's extraordinary how different the keynote was from ones today...
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32 month ago
jimray : Apple Keynote Bloopers - "It's pretty awesome when it works"
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33 month ago
deusx : ★ The Joy of Tech! ★ - Steve Jobs Dress-Up
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33 month ago
plasticbag : Apple pulls past Dell's stock price and Steve Jobs is delighted - Apparently a few years ago, Dell suggested that Apple should be sold and the money returned to its shareholders. This was before Steve Jobs' return to the business, of course...
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34 month ago
plasticbag : The weirdest Apple rumour going around at the moment is HDTVs with LCD remote controls and built in OSX running on Intel - Interested to see if it's true, obviously. Not going to stake the farm on it - but I have heard it from a friend in the industry as well, who was flailing around trying to find sources to support it...
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