Hours don’t make it. Good choices, the right focus, and intelligent decisions over a long period of time make it.
When the application was initially rejected from the App Store, Apple sent a letter to the developers noting that the pinch to expand feature is “associated solely with Apple applications.”
Apple’s specially privileged, private-framework-using iPhone apps were relatively few, but their first-party area of influence on the iPad has just spread to e-readers, word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation tools: four major markets in which competitors may be at a severe disadvantage by not being able to do the same things as Apple’s alternatives if Apple chooses to play this card there.
Marco Arment – iBooks and private APIs
So after I signed the bill, I looked around. I looked up in the sky to see if asteroids were coming. I looked at the ground to see if cracks had opened up in the earth. But you know what? It turned out to be a pretty nice day. Birds were still chirping. Folks were strolling down the street. Nobody had lost their doctor. Nobody had pulled the plug on Granny. Nobody was being dragged away and forced into some government-run health care.
President Obama in Maine talking about health care reform
There is no longer enough mail to sustain six days of delivery.
From Walt Mossberg’s iPad review in the Wall Street Journal:
It’s far more than just a big iPhone.
From David Pogue’s iPad review in the New York Times:
The Apple iPad is basically a gigantic iPod Touch.