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Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator’s Dilemma

By shirty | Published: March 5, 2012
I’m still in mourning for Steve.  Can’t bring myself to watch that memorial. But I gobble up every validation, such as this one, of the man’s genius.  To live a life ruled by passion, and in the quest of building useful products made beautiful is a pursuit followed by too few in this world. Which [...]
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Steve’s Sister

By shirty | Published: December 1, 2011
It’s been almost 2 months since Steve Jobs died, and I’m still not ready to watch the memorial service. I read this eulogy – written by his sister Mona – at the time, and was in bits. Rereading it now, I’m heartbroken again. We lost someone very special. Always thinking, sketching, inventing, and tweaking. What [...]
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Apple – Remembering Steve Jobs

By Shirty | Published: October 5, 2011
http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/I hate that this page exists, and I’m in tears right now as I write this.\ \ Steve was my CEO for 8 of the most turbulent and most formative years of my life. I started with Apple pre-iPod, when the company was floundering and not expected to survive. The cadre of believers I worked [...]
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Straight Dope on the IPods Birth

By Shirty | Published: August 12, 2010
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2006/10/71956?currentPage=allAn excellent history of the iPod, from “we need a gadget to sell” to world domination. (How can I be the first to thumb this up?) “Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,” Jobs told the Times. “That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it [...]
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BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Giving up my iPod for a Walkman

By Shirty | Published: June 29, 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8117619.stmCute BBC fluff piece about swapping a kid’s iPod with a Walkman. Personally, I don’t miss my old Sony Sports, which weighed a ton and went through batteries pretty quickly. On my last trip, my nostalgia was of the “I can’t believe I used to use a Walkman” variety whenever I dragged out my 80GB [...]
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Apple: Jobs Medical Issue Not Cancer, NY Times Says – Tech Trader Daily – Barrons.com

By Shirty | Published: January 15, 2009
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2009/01/15/apple-jobs-medical-issue-not-cancer-ny-times-says?mod=yahoobarronsLots of talk – deservedly – about Steve Jobs’ decision to step away from his Apple CEO gig “for a few months” to improve his health. I’m no longer an employee, so I can finally respond worry-free to Joe Average comments such as this: Let’s get real. I mean really real. Jobs did not invent [...]
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Apple Store under Louvres glass pyramid gets the green light – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Tech

By Shirty | Published: June 5, 2008
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/06/05/apple-store-under-louvres-glass-pyramid-gets-the-green-light?source=yahoo_quoteApple’s application to build a store in Paris – its first in France – has been approved, according to the French financial daily La Tribune. The location: the Carrousel du Louvre, prime retail space under the pyramid that dominates Napoleon’s courtyard at the museum’s grand entrance. Oh, yes. OH, YES. Apple + Paris = *swoon*, [...]
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They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know. – New York Times

By Shirty | Published: March 23, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/business/09digi.html?_r=1&em&ex=1205467200&en=5335775aae3491d3&ei=5087%0A&oref=sloginMicrosoft senior executives “eat their own dog food”, only to find out it’s the poisonous, made-in-China variety that is Windows Vista: Then there’s Mike, who buys a laptop that has a reassuring “Windows Vista Capable” logo affixed. He thinks that he will be able to run Vista in all of its glory, as well as [...]
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AirMail: The worlds most perfect sleeve for the MacBook.

By Shirty | Published: January 19, 2008
http://www.manilamac.com/A laptop sleeve for the new MacBook Air. Though cute (it’s vinyl with a fleece inside), I can’t help but be disappointed: I initially thought the site was satirical, offering an actual manilla envelope for $30. In my books, bite beats craft almost every time.
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Inside Apple Stores, a Certain Aura Enchants the Faithful – New York Times

By Shirty | Published: December 27, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/business/27apple.htmlWhile in Paris this year, I was turned away by three different Apple-specific resellers when I asked if I could use one of their locked-down Macs to back up my months’ worth of travel photos. Not an unreasonable response from most businesses, I suppose, but I’m a longtime Apple user (and former employee), so I [...]
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