It is so important to be light on your feet, inquisitive and interested in being wrong.
Jonathan Ive
The Insanely Great History of Apple
A comprehensive map of Apple products, this print shows every computer released by Apple in the last thirty years, from the original Mac through the MacBook Air.
Print available from Pop Charts Lab
The Animated History of the iPhone
Great piece by CNET UK
To Steve Jobs On His 30th Birthday
On February 24th 1985, Steve Jobs turned thirty. His Apple coworkers helped him celebrate by creating a short film for him. They set it to the wonderful song “My Back Pages” by one of Steve’s idols, Bob Dylan, and filled it with images from Jobs’ first three decades. You know some of them, but only some. And they include many ones of a happy, relaxed, even silly Steve Jobs that most of us never got to see.
via Technologizer
The Steve Jobs I Knew
Great reflection on some of the more intimate interactions with Steve Jobs that Walt Mossberg was privy to during his coverage of Apple over the years
Goodbye and Thanks Steve,
For showing us all that nothing is impossible. For creating wonderment and imagination with everything you touched. For proving that design is the true differentiator. For never giving in even when the chips were stacked against you. For influencing countless people to try and change the world. We will miss you.
So tonight after sundown
You must go from this place
Without a tear, without a frown
Disappear without a trace
- South Bound
Everything the iPad is not
Rather than taking on Apple on their own court, they’re moving to keep a lock on a game they’re already kicking butt at (the e-reader market), while upping the odds that anyone weighing “iPad or Kindle?” will be swayed in their favor. By launching with a 7″ tablet (and only a 7″ tablet), Amazon is making it clear: they don’t want the Kindle tablet to be the iPad. They want it to be everything the iPad is not.
A great breakdown of Amazon’s strategy to launch their own tablet. Amazon continues to amaze me with their focused approach to product and if everything in this article is accurate flawless execution. via TechCrunch
One More Thing
Steve Jobs is a remarkable person. He’ll go down as perhaps the greatest business leader and one of the greatest innovators of not just our time, but of any time. But he is just a man. What he’s built in Apple is much bigger. We’re emotionally tied to Jobs because of the belief that Apple is tied to him. His last act is to show us that it’s not. That would be truly amazing.
Great article by MG Siegler on Jobs’ retiring via Tech Crunch
Development proposal submitted by Apple for their new campus. Those are trees people.
