Apple had just one customer. He passed away last year.
Seth Godin — Seth’s Blog: Who is your customer? (via minimalmac)
Short, thoughtful read.
yeah. i ordered
onetwo. their video pushed me over the edge.
Good post. I think splatf is right.
Old photo of me with an Apple II Plus. Oh, the memories.
(1982?) Oh, the memories. I had no idea of course how much an impact Apple computers would have on me growing up all the way to affecting my career path. Steve Jobs, thanks for the innovation. You will be missed.
This guy changed my life. RIP Steve.
I had the exact same thought tonight after getting the news alert on the way home from my 6YO’s soccer practice. Yeah, a text alert on my iPhone. I do believe Chuck has it right: This guy did change my life.
More than anything else, Jobs’s genius is in managing the creative process. Here’s his playbook. By Leander Kahney.
Pretty good list right there. Number 3 is so interesting to me. Difficult to execute, actually.
Thanks to a new Flash alternative released Monday, Adobe software will finally be compatible with Apple’s mobile devices. Adobe Edge is a new HTML5-powered design tool that the company says will complement its existing suite of web software, including the famously not iPhone-friendly Flash software. In its press release announcing the release, Adobe talks at length about the power of HTML5 and their continued contributions to building products that cater to the new web standard. But except for a tiny mention of compatibility with Apple’s mobile operating system, they leave out the fact that they’re doing exactly what Steve Jobs told them to do a little over a year ago.
Adobe Quietly Surrenders to Steve Jobs, Builds Flash Alternative - Technology - The Atlantic Wire
Jobs: 1, Adobe: 0
(link via soupsoup)
Apple Hires The Guy Who Hacked Together A Better iOS Notifications System
Very savvy move by Apple. You might think they wouldn’t like this guy since he perfected notifications for users who jailbreak their device. But they probably didn’t even think twice about that. They just wanted the best guy for the job.
While we’ve heard that revamped notifications will be a part of iOS 5, it seems very unlikely that any of Hajas’ work made the cut since he’s only been on board a month or so.
But as David Chartier reminds us, Apple hired Rich Dellinger, the guy behind the excellent webOS notification system, way back in early 2010. Any work we see in iOS 5 is likely his.
Cannot wait. Notifications are my single biggest complaint about iOS currently. I also wonder how they’ll tie in with iCloud.
Good move. Also, hacking does pay [sometimes].
3 Major Issues with the Latest iPhone Tracking “Discovery”
Very interesting post:
Today, two researchers for O’Reilly media published an article claiming discovery of a hidden tracking system on the iOS 4 operating system. Using simple techniques, Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden extracted data off of an iOS version 4 device and wrote an open source software utility to effectively graph this data onto a map. As a fellow researcher, I champion their creativity and their development. As an expert in this field, I have three points of argument to raise.
1) Apple is not collecting this data.
2) This hidden file is neither new nor secret.
3) This “discovery” was published months ago.
(via wilwheaton:)
![“iPhoneTracker” is an opensource application that maps the data your iPhone is recording about your movements.
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“iPhoneTracker” is an opensource application that maps the data your iPhone is recording about your movements.
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I’m saying that the iPad is the new IE6 because we are expecting it to be something that it isn’t, the same way that we were expecting that IE6 would have the same features/performance/reliability than the latest versions of Firefox/Safari. It takes years and many iterations to a technology become “stable”, early adoption of standards and poor implementation leads to headaches. It happened with IE6 and it is happening with the iOS Safari right now.
Interesting take! I think it may be true. Good grief.
GPOYW: Little Karl with Apple II Plus
This is me in my early computering years (1982?). Man, I loved that shirt. And 5” floppy disks. I remember cutting a notch on the left side of the disk to make an insta-double-sided disk. Because media was expensive back in the old days.
@georgeruiz says, “Check out my new Nano Watch”
Very cool. I’ve been looking for a clock like this for my iPhone when in lock mode. I’ve looked, and surely one exists, but where?
MinnPost in-article ad survives Safari Reader!
Some MinnPost.com templates, like Braublog’s, do not even offer the Safari Reader button (UPDATE: Okay, button shows up today. Weird?). But others do. On one template, we publish a 300x250 banner ad within the articles, like this one by Beth Hawkins (screenshot of Reader-view above).
I was very surprised that the ad is displayed within the Reader-rendered page. Safari Reader will sometimes zap editorial images on other articles that I have tested. But this ad position survived.
Safari Reader removes annoying ads and other visual distractions from online articles. So you get the whole story and nothing but the story.
So does this mean that Safari Reader has logic that actually tests to see if the ad is annoying or not, and the ad on the MinnPost.com 300x250 ad is deemed NOT ANNOYING?
Apple introduces Safari Reader in Safari 5 addressing reader experience
Safari Reader removes annoying ads and other visual distractions from online articles. So you get the whole story and nothing but the story.
Does this mean we won’t see those awesome, oops I mean annoying Apple banner ads on New York Times anymore?
Also, could the plan eventually be to display iAd advertising when a person is viewing content within Safari Reader? I suppose Apple could help save journalism by then giving a small % of the revenue to the publisher?
The full pitch for this new feature:
Safari Reader
Safari Reader removes annoying ads and other visual distractions from online articles. So you get the whole story and nothing but the story. It works like this: As you browse the web, Safari detects if you’re on a web page with an article. Click the Reader icon in the Smart Address Field, and the article appears instantly in one continuous, clutter-free view. You see every page of the article — whether two or twenty. Onscreen controls let you email, print, and zoom. Change the size of the text, and Safari remembers it the next time you view an article in Safari Reader.
I think of three things:
1) Firefox has offered plug-ins to block ads for a long time. But it does require a little bit of set-up and maintenance. Apple looks to have it streamlined now with Safari Reader and are promoting it. Other browsers will surely follow the lead. It’s not a matter of if, but when. (Also, the Readability bookmarklet has been around a while and appears to be what Apple was going for.)
2) Not all advertising is annoying. A lot of it can be informative and useful. How can a user be sure that Safari Reader is only blocking “annoying” ads? (Trick question, sorry.)
3) Currently, banner ad revenue is part of MinnPost’s business model. We’re experimenting with non-banner ads by developing RealTimeAds.com, a new ad platform (no, it’s not done yet). And we have a membership program for people who want to support us.
I welcome the challenge to build a sustainable business model for journalism that does not include “annoying” or “visual distractions”. If Safari Reader pushes this to happen sooner than later, lets get it done already.
One other ‘non-advertising’ thought: It looks like Safari Reader changes the layout of the page. How do web designers feel about this? Is Safari Reader getting all the “Annoying Article Web Design” out of the way, too?
Update: MinnPost.com in-article ad survives Safari Reader!
Some articles I am seeing on the subject (I’ll post more here as I see them):
Apple giveth thee… iPad
