January 2010
11 posts
The New World →
The best “big picture” analysis of the iPad so far.
“Used to be that to drive a car, you, the driver, needed to operate a clutch...”
– John Gruber on the iPad
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The Kids Can't Wait
An excerpt from an interview with Steve Jobs, and one that might just be particularly relevant on the eve of the introduction of what he calls “the most important thing he’s ever done”:
One of the things that built Apple II’s was schools buying Apple II’s; but even so there was about only 10% of the schools that even had one computer in them in 1979 I think it was. When I...
Show and Sell: The Secret to Apple's Magic →
Brings to mind the following passage from Steven Levy’s Insanely Great:
Jobs’s speeches were punctuated by slogans. Perhaps the most telling epigram of all was a three-word koan that Jobs scrawled on an easel in January 1983, when the project [the release of the first Mac] was months overdue. REAL ARTISTS SHIP. It was an awesome encapsulation of the ground rules in the age of...
WatchOddly mesmerizing.
WatchTwelve minutes of uninterrupted beauty. (Fullscreen and HD recommended.)
“Beware any computer which isn’t derided by some as being for dummies or...”
– John Gruber
“I heard a story this week — friend of a friend knows a guy sort of thing — that...”
– John Gruber on Boy Genius Report’s tablet rumor report
I'd like to make myself beliiiiiiieve... →
kass:
This song. Will not. Get out. Of my head.
Owl City is what I imagine music would sound like if reconstructed by robots from a post-apocalyptic future, based on nothing but salvaged recordings of human music from the early twenty-first century: a perfectly programmed imitation completely devoid of soul. The Matrix of music, if you will, in its first, “rejected” iterations....