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The other thing that’s always struck me is that even if Apple could get a ton of content providers on board with the idea, they’d still have to worry about cable providers because so many of us get our Internet service from a cable company. What’s to stop Comcast from throttling your bandwidth after you drop TV service and pay them for nothing other than Internet service? Ideally the feds would prevent that, but I wouldn’t hold my breath on that either.

John Gruber, on the rumored Apple TV

Gawd I wish Net Neutrality were a real thing.

parislemon: Writes Isaacson of his last meeting with Jobs for the book, just weeks ago: As a writer, I was used to being detached, but I was hit by a wave of sadness as I tried to say goodbye. In order to mask my emotion, I asked the one question that was still puzzling me: Why had he been so eager, during close to 50 interviews and conversations over the course of two years, to open up so much for a book when he was usually so private? “I wanted my kids to know me,” he said. “I wasn’t always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did.” View high resolution

parislemon:

Writes Isaacson of his last meeting with Jobs for the book, just weeks ago:

As a writer, I was used to being detached, but I was hit by a wave of sadness as I tried to say goodbye. In order to mask my emotion, I asked the one question that was still puzzling me: Why had he been so eager, during close to 50 interviews and conversations over the course of two years, to open up so much for a book when he was usually so private? “I wanted my kids to know me,” he said. “I wasn’t always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did.”

(Reblogged from parislemon)

phazerblast:

joshuajabbour:

“So, 24 years ago, Apple predicted a complex natural-language voice assistant built into a touchscreen Apple device, and was less than a month off.”

(via Andy Baio)


This video is definitely not 24 years old, the chick mentions Yahoo which launched in 1995.. So 14 years maybe, which is still a cool coincidence.

I did a little bit more looking into this, and it appears the original video of the professor is actually from 1987 and was presented at Educom by then-CEO John Sculley. The video above was probably made in the 1990s, and simply wraps the original one with a new opening and closing.

(Reblogged from phazerblast)
“So, 24 years ago, Apple predicted a complex natural-language voice assistant built into a touchscreen Apple device, and was less than a month off.”

(via Andy Baio)

"If you have to tell people you won, you lost."

parislemon:

The first of about 100,000 “me too” or “we were doing this a long time ago” posts from Apple/iCloud competitors.

These guys don’t seem to realize one thing: no one gives a shit who did something first. It’s all about who did it right. iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc.

Maybe that will be Apple here, maybe not. But I can’t recall Apple doing a “me too” or “we were doing this first” type post after a competitor launches something. 

If you have to tell people you won, you lost. 

(Reblogged from parislemon)
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Note that Engadget “published information gained by others in unsavory ways” — they ran a photograph and a description of the phone (including revealing the front-facing camera) two days before Gizmodo. The photo and description came from the sources who took the phone from the bar and eventually sold it to Gizmodo. Yet Engadget is not in any trouble at all.

Gizmodo isn’t in trouble for spoiling Apple’s secret; they’re in trouble for breaking the law.
John Gruber, on the fact that so many journalists just can’t (won’t) understand the meat of the Gizmodo/iPhone issue

The iPad: so easy to use even a cat can figure it out!

(via Laughing Squid)

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So this is the buttercream irony frosting on this up-with-freedom cupcake: even open source darling Google embraces Flash. It’s those fascist hipster douchebags in Cupertino who, entirely for self-serving reasons, may end up doing far more to keep the internet open than anything Reverend Stallman preaches. Capitalism’s funny that way.

Watts Martin, Coyote Tracks: Thinking About Open

(via The Angry Drunk)

(Reblogged from chipotle)
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The bulk of humanity doesn’t want a computing experience it can tinker with; it wants a computing experience that works.
Jeffrey Zeldman, on the iPad