What wasn’t clear before is the fact that music can be either streamed or downloaded locally to any of your computers or devices. While the video only shows the service on a Mac, we’ve confirmed it works the same way on iOS devices. So, essentially, you will have instant access to your entire music library from all of your Macs, iPhones, iPads, or iPod touches for only $25/year. This ability on your iOS devices means your music library won’t need to take up valuable space on the device itself, as long as you have some sort of internet connection.
Category: Apple
The War on Fakes
Apple was slow to act against the booming counterfeit industry in China and other Asian countries, according to cables obtained by WikiLeaks.
The technology giant eventually organized a team in March 2008 to curtail the explosion of knockoff iPods and iPhones, according to an electronic memo from the Beijing embassy dated September 2008.
When I was behind the Genius Bar, it was surprising to me how often someone brought in an “iPod from eBay,” wondering why it didn’t work.
‘Call Tim Cook, Just to Say Hi’
Jef Raskin’s ‘The Macintosh Project’
Looking for some weekend reading? This 155-page PDF of Jef Raskin’s documentation for the original Macintosh project should hit the spot.
Gizmodo, on the Steve Jobs Pics
There is a photo floating around the Internet of Steve Jobs looking very ill. It’s shocking. You won’t find it here. I’m not posting it. Instead, I’m posting a picture of myself that was also snapped unexpectedly. See above.
This isn’t about journalism or ethics or taste. We have violated those precepts before to bring you a story, and we’d do it again. But this time it just feels gross.
On Cult of Mac, Steve Jobs’s Health and a Lack of Truth-Seeking in Reporting
Earlier today, Cult of Mac writer Nicole Martinelli linked to a TMZ piece showing a photo of what appeared to be a very weak, very sick Steve Jobs. The photo looks doctored to me, but TMZ is reporting them as factual photographs.
In her article, Martinelli wrote:
We’re holding out hope that they are fakes.
After the post went live and gained a few dozen comments, Cult of Mac editors replaced Martinelli’s byline with one reading “Staff Writer.”
Pushy
This is about the single most annoying thing that an app developer can do. I know that the iOS ecosystem revolves around positive reviews, but there has to be a better way to request reviews and ratings than this.
The Culture
Apple isn’t going to stop making iPads or close up shop because Steve Jobs is leaving. But they may be showing a different face to the public and speaking to the public in a different voice. And if that happens, the cultural Apple may change substantially more than the technical Apple or the business Apple.
I disagree. I think Jobs has probably spent more time spreading his ideas on Apple’s culture and values than anything else.
Apple, Moving Forward
Tim Cook, in an email to Apple employees:
I want you to be confident that Apple is not going to change. I cherish and celebrate Apple’s unique principles and values. Steve built a company and culture that is unlike any other in the world and we are going to stay true to that—it is in our DNA. We are 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.
Thirteen Years
For my last Steve Jobs related linked item for the day, I present Nilay Patel’s epic overview of Apple products that were released during Jobs’ last 13 years as Apple CEO.
‘I’m Thinking Printers’
Following the resignation of Apple founder Steve Jobs, incoming CEO Tim Cook called a meeting of shareholders and members of the press Thursday morning to announce that he envisioned printers as the company’s future. “Laser, ink-jet, double-sided, color, black-and-white—the future of technology is in printers. I am absolutely convinced of that,” Cook explained to a packed auditorium as a montage of printers and people using printers played on a screen behind him. “What is the one thing people will always need? It’s obvious: printers. Printers with fax machines attached, printers that collate and staple, perhaps a printer that makes photocopies. Anything’s possible. It’s called innovation.”
Jobs and Apple
Apple’s products are replete with Apple-like features and details, embedded in Apple-like apps, running on Apple-like devices, which come packaged in Apple-like boxes, are promoted in Apple-like ads, and sold in Apple-like stores. The company is a fractal design. Simplicity, elegance, beauty, cleverness, humility. Directness. Truth. Zoom out enough and you can see that the same things that define Apple’s products apply to Apple as a whole. The company itself is Apple-like. The same thought, care, and painstaking attention to detail that Steve Jobs brought to questions like “How should a computer work?”, “How should a phone work?”, “How should we buy music and apps in the digital age?” he also brought to the most important question: “How should a company that creates such things function?”