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‘Your Time is Limited’
From Jobs’ 2005 Sanford commencement address:
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.
‘The Steve Jobs I Knew’
Walt Mossberg’s piece is very, very good.
A Visionary
President Obama, on Steve Jobs’ passing:
By building one of the planet’s most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity. By making computers personal and putting the internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun. And by turning his talents to storytelling, he has brought joy to millions of children and grownups alike. Steve was fond of saying that he lived every day like it was his last. Because he did, he transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: he changed the way each of us sees the world.
Steve Jobs Has Passed
‘Great Expectations’
Speaking of podcasts, I go to join the boys on The Bro Show this week to talk about the iPhone 4S. Go check it out.
Still Alive
More Great Coverage of the iPhone 4S Announcement
Jason Gilbert, for the Huffington Post:
It’s not that the new iPhone won’t be great. It will be one of, if not the, best smartphone available to consumers when it is released on October 14. After all, it is identical to the fantastic iPhone 4, except its antenna will be much-improved, the Internet and the apps will load and run faster and the camera and battery will put its predecessor’s to shame.
Ungeniused 002 - Three-Wheeled Cars
Want to know about three-wheeled cars like the Reliant Robin? Well, episode two of Myke and I’s new podcast is perfect for you!
The Future has a Voice
And that voice sounds like a female robot.
Joking aside, Siri looks incredible. It seems way more futuristic than FaceTime did a year ago.
On the Updated iPod touch
The iPod touch got a splash of white paint a new price point, but not much else.
Nowhere on Apple’s tech specs page for the iPod touch does it mention what CPU the device has inside. My guess — based on Apple not touting an A5 — that the “new” iPod touch isn’t all that new after all, and still has an A4 under the hood.
This is surprising to me. Maybe Apple couldn’t source enough parts or get the price right.1 Maybe the iPod touch is too thin to stuff a big enough battery in its chassis.
Lion Downloaded Six Million Times
Holy moly, that’s a lot of data to move.