Steve: Thank you.
Steve Jobs changed my world and yours too. We’re unlikely to see anyone like him again in our lifetimes.
Comment on “How sticky is Android?”
If you’re not reading Horace Dediu’s asymco, you’re missing out on the best mobile systems analysis and numbers in the business. I took the time to comment on his recent How sticky is Android article and I’m reprinting here for the record. I appreciate the “sunk cost” notion [of smartphone stickiness], but I think for…
Gruber on Apple
I love John Gruber. So smart, so deeply into Apple’s mindset. Great commentary here from the recent Macworld event in San Francisco. He talks about 10 issues he think Apple needs to deal with, one way or another. Great stuff. http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/55300429001?isVid=1&publisherID=54694250001
Down with PC applications, up with cloud-based apps
Apple endured its darkest days during the early 1990s, when the PC had lost its original magic and turned into a drab, utilitarian tool. Buyers flocked to Dell’s cheap, beige boxes. Computing back then was all about the programs. Now, computing is all about the programming – the words and sounds and pictures and conversations…
Tabula rasa
When the White House announced that President Obama would deliver his State of the Union message on Jan. 27—the same day Apple was planning to unveil its new tablet computer—many of us at Slate cringed. “What is Obama thinking?” one of my colleagues joked. “He’s going to be totally overshadowed.” The idea of a product…
