MacWorld, The new rules for buying a Mac. We bust the most common Mac shopping myths: “(…) For years, we have unquestioningly followed numerous unwritten rules when buying a Mac. Like many customs, these rules were once based on a foundation of facts and reason. But in the past few years, many longstanding Mac truths [...]
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The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry
January 10th, 2008
Wired, The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry: “It was a late morning in the fall of 2006. Almost a year earlier, Steve Jobs had tasked about 200 of Apple’s top engineers with creating the iPhone. Yet here, in Apple’s boardroom, it was clear that the prototype was still a disaster. [...]
Tags: apple · iphone · os x · steve jobs
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review
October 29th, 2007
John Siracusa: “I started this review talking about expectations. As I’ve learned more about Leopard, it’s become increasingly clear where, exactly, those two-and-a-half years of development time went. Leopard is absolutely packed with improvements. It seems that not a corner of the OS has gone untouched. Perhaps that’s not as clear to the casual user [...]
Mac OS X Leopard
October 27th, 2007
Mac OS X Leopard Dave Winer: “There isn’t much you can do, after the Mac has been around for 23 years, that hasn’t already been done.” John Gruber: ‘The most significant new feature in Leopard is Time Machine.’ Jason Snell: “As with every OS X update since version 10.1, there’s no single feature in Leopard [...]
If wishes were iPhones, then beggars would call
October 5th, 2007
Mark Pilgrim: If wishes were iPhones, then beggars would call “I don’t understand this continuing obsession with buying things that you need to break before they do what you want. (…) My current theory is that it’s some twisted form of wish fulfillment.”
Steve Jobs in a Box. Has he peaked?
June 19th, 2007
John Heilemann: “Yet the most common descriptor applied to him, by friends and foes and even Jobs himself, is “asshole.” (Running neck-and-neck for second are “genius” and “sociopath.”)”
Tags: apple · iphone · steve jobs
(Apple) Stock Hacking & the power of DisInformaton
May 17th, 2007
Om Malik: “It took only seven minutes for Apple to fall to its intraday low of $103.42 from $108.83. Apple was trading below $105 for only two minutes, but in those two minutes more than 2.2 million shares were traded.”
Tags: apple · engadget · media · stock-hacking · stockmarket
Thoughts on Music
February 7th, 2007
Steve Jobs: “With the stunning global success of Apple’s iPod music player and iTunes online music store, some have called for Apple to “open” the digital rights management (DRM) system that Apple uses to protect its music against theft, so that music purchased from iTunes can be played on digital devices purchased from other companies, [...]