Posts tagged Apple

via parislemon:

“Let’s see how the competition goes…”

Just to beat a dead horse, after seeing the post noting Apple’s iPhone business now brings in more revenue than all of Microsoft’s businesses combined, Jason Hiner reminded me of Steve Ballmer’s classic 2007 video laughing off the iPhone announcement (above).

Charting the rise of personal computers, from Apple II through the iPad

Charting the rise of personal computers, from Apple II through the iPad

CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: Enough with the giant phones!

The iPhone takes a lot of flack from tech blogs for maintaining their smaller screen size, but I like the ability to use my phone using only one hand and being able to reach over 90% of the screen using only my thumb.  I think the UI designers at Apple already know these advantages though…

via cnnmoneytech:

All these huge new phones are giving me a bad case of “smartphone thumb.”

The screen on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is a stunning 4.65 inches across the diagonal, compared to 3.5 inches for the iPhone (see above). Though more is often better, there has got to be a limit, right? My thumb could…

via dpstyles:

Anyone catch the pseudo @foursquare shoutout on South Park last night? You be the judge on whether it’s legit or not… :)

Feels a lot like the pseudo-Simpsons shoutout from October 9, but this one feels a little more obvious :)

Apple product-placements throughout film history, as compiled in a timeline by AnyClip

Apple product-placements throughout film history, as compiled in a timeline by AnyClip

Goodbye, Steve.

via mattgalligan:

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving…

How to land a job at Google, Apple, and Facebook

How to land a job at Google, Apple, and Facebook

lolololori:

its impossible to instapaper this
newsweek:

In this week’s issue, Cult of Mac’s Leander Kahney collects “The 10 Commandments of Steve.”

More than anything else, Jobs’s genius is in managing the creative process. Here’s his playbook.

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lolololori:

its impossible to instapaper this

newsweek:

In this week’s issue, Cult of Mac’s Leander Kahney collects “The 10 Commandments of Steve.”

More than anything else, Jobs’s genius is in managing the creative process. Here’s his playbook.

 [See it full size]

It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them
Steve Jobs, in BusinessWeek on May 25, 1998
What does Apple have that Google doesn’t? An Auteur of design, name Steve Jobs.  Do you think design decisions are best reached by a unfied personality or through consensus emerging through a committee?

What does Apple have that Google doesn’t? An Auteur of design, name Steve Jobs.  Do you think design decisions are best reached by a unfied personality or through consensus emerging through a committee?