I asked about this the other day on Twitter. Clearly, I have a super power to get things done.
Year: 2012
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When Apple announced they were bringing iOS features “Back to the Mac” with OS X Lion (and doubled down on it with Mountain Lion), the iOS implementation of copy and paste was not included.
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Rob Enderle Strikes Again
“Penis iron” is all you need to know about his post.
Oh, and that HP CEO Meg Whitman is more valuable to her company than Tim Cook is to Apple.
NASA Dissecting Atlantis, Discovery and Endeavour
Woman Breaks Nose On Apple Store Door
Mike Daisey, on Lying
When I said onstage that I had personally experienced things I in fact did not, I failed to honor the contract I’d established with my audiences over many years and many shows. In doing so, I not only violated their trust, I also made worse art.
This is not the place for me to try and explain my good intentions. We all know where the road paved with good intentions leads. In fact, I think it might lead to where I’m sitting right now.
Fired Up About iPad Heat
I agree with Josh on this — can’t we all just move on?
Does new iPad gets warm? Yes.
Does it feel less like the future when its warm? Yes.
Is it uncomfortable to hold? No.
Does it ever get hot? No.
Do I regret my purchase? No.
Just 140 Characters Away
Myke Hurley, on how Twitter had changed the world:
People are becoming more world-social and making friends across the globe, some they may never meet in person. Relationships (friendship and love) are being forged online more and more often these days and the Internet is becoming a tool to help people interact on an emotional level. Twitter may be text at 140 characters at a time, but it is an enabler of conversation that can spill out in to many different forms.
My friendship with Myke is a great example of this. He reached out to me on Twitter to be on his podcast, The Bro Show.
Fast forward a year, and I have two shows on his ever-growing podcast network, and we text or talk daily.
Even more so, he’s flying across the ocean to come visit me and my family at the end of April.
Now, my parents would probably freak out that “a guy I met on the Internet” is coming to visit me and will be spending time with my wife and kids, but I don’t have a moment’s hesitation about it. The technology between us has become so transparent, I don’t find it odd or weird at all.
It was just the same at Macworld. I hit it off with guys like Brett Kelly, Ben Brooks and Shawn Blanc without any awkwardness. Heck, I shared a hotel room with Thomas Brand and Pat Dryburgh and nothing sketchy happened.
Why?
Because things like Twitter, iMessage and more tie people together. Spending “actual” time together is just a bonus, really.
New AppleTV UI Rejected Five Years Ago by Steve Jobs?
Joshua Schnell over at Macgasm:
An interesting tweet by Michael Margolis, a former Apple TV engineer at Apple Inc., popped up in our Twitter feed this evening, and we thought it was worth passing on. According to Margolis, the new Apple TV UI was not only on the table at Apple years ago, but Steve Jobs alledgedly shot it down because he didn’t like it at the time.
(Here’s the tweet.)
This would certainly could explain why the original AppleTV basically ran Front Row. Very interesting.
The Collapse of Print
Derek Thompson at The Atlantic:
Call it creative if you want, but this is what economic destruction looks like. Print newspaper ads have fallen by two-thirds from $60 billion in the late–1990s to $20 billion in 2011.
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So the reason newspapers are in trouble isn’t that they aren’t making lots of money – they still are; advertising is a huge, huge business, as any app developer will try to tell you – but that their business models and payroll depend on so much more money. The U.S. newspaper industry was built to support $50 billion to $60 billion in total advertising with the kind of staffs that a $50 billion industry can abide. The layoffs, buyouts, and bankruptcies you hear about are the result of this massive correction in the face of falling revenue.
Was Mike Daisey’s Lying Necessary?
Joshua Topolsky, for The Washington Post:
Mike Daisey is not a hero, but I’m not sure he’s a villain either.
He leaned into his lies to sell tickets to a show, to get on network TV, to make money and get famous. But along the way — either on purpose or by accident — he opened a lot of eyes.
And that’s the truth.
Apple’s Supplier Responsibility reports are factual and easy to understand.
Daisey’s show and media interviews may have helped raise awareness[1] about the issue, but now that he’s been outed as a serial liar by Ira Glass, I think the net outcome is more harmful than helpful.
- I hate that phrase. ↩
Home Work
Dave Calao and Aaron Mahnke have launched a new podcast, titled “Home Work.” On it, they discuss working from home, and offer tips and advice on how to do it well. It’s a must-listen, even if freelancing isn’t your full-time gig.