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New app that will replace iChat when OS X Mountain Lion comes out this summer, but you can install the beta right now. Now you can send iMessages from the Mac!
That’s right, both an announcement for the next OS X iteration and an iMessages for Mac beta to play with.
Just released today: The FBI’s entire file on Steve Jobs
Interesting to note that the above photo comes from an extensive background check (including in-person interviews with those that knew him) due to the possibility of Jobs receiving a presidential appointment in the 90s.
Also included: documents (including his fingerprints) relating to a series of bomb threats aimed at Apple.
Not Everyone Copies Apple
“[Apple is] going to continue to make the best products in the world that delight our customers and make our employees incredibly proud of what they do.”
- Tim Cook in his first email to Apple employees as Apple’s new CEO sent August 25, 2011
“The path [Sony] must take is clear: to drive the growth of our core electronics businesses - primarily digital imaging, smart mobile and game; to turn around the television business; and to accelerate the innovation that enables us to create new business domains.”
- Kazuo Hirai in response to being appointed Sony’s new President and CEO on February 1, 2012
Apple: {best, world, delight, proud} vs. Sony: {growth, businesses, accelerate, domains}
Not everyone copies Apple.
In 2009, Apple sold more iPhones than it did in 2007 and 2008 combined.
In 2010, Apple sold more iPhones than it did in 2007, 2008, and 2009 combined.
Last year, Apple sold 93.1 million iPhones, slightly more than it did in in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 combined.
—In case you wanted a better illustration of what Apple’s crazy iPhone sales growth is like.
A: We just sold 37 million iPhones and could have sold more with the supply. There are a lot of people out there who like what we’re doing. —
I love the response by Tim Cook when asked whether the iPhone should add larger screens or 4G compatibility now to compete better with Android, even though both have been shown to have large negative effects on battery life.
(via Apple Reports Best Quarter Ever in Q1 2012: $13.06 Billion Profit on $46.33 Billion in Revenue)
“Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson as quoted by Malcolm Gladwell for The New Yorker
“Fuck this, let’s show him what a tablet can really be.”
His philosophy of aesthetics reminds me of a quote that went something like this: “Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.”
Steve always aspired to make beautiful later.
—via A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs
Take a few moments out to read this beautiful eulogy from Mona Simpson’s Eulogy for her brother, Steve Jobs.
Mashing up GLaDOS and Siri to make GLaDOSiri is a brilliant idea.
… Or a terrible one.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
(via jonaha)
