My Xbox, despite being made by Microsoft, is stable, fast, and runs my games perfectly. How could a company that gave us Windows build such a great gaming platform?
Because it was a closed system.
Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos on the iPad
A few months ago, I heard suggestions that Apple had tentative plans to release a developer beta of Mac OS X 10.7 at WWDC this June. That is no longer the case. Mac OS X 10.7 development continues, but with a reduced team and an unknown schedule. It’s my educated guess that there will be no 10.7 news at WWDC this year, and probably none until WWDC 2011.
Really sad to read.
marclafountain.com: Well, There You Have It
marclafountain.com: Well, There You Have It
Text of emails:
From: Steve Jobs
Subject: Re: I Don’t Usually Do This
Date: April 9, 2010 5:16:14 PM EDT
To: Marc LaFountain
We think its great.
On Apr 9, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Marc LaFountain wrote:
Hi, Steve. I’m not usually one to write in like this. But, I’m so…
It’s like we said on the iPad: if you see a stylus, they blew it. In multitasking, if you see a task manager, they blew it. Users shouldn’t have to ever, ever, EVER think about that stuff
(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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
