How revolutionary does Apple see the iPad?
Very.
The iPad and this idea of a next generation operating system has been on Steve Jobs’ mind since he returned to Apple. Here’s Jobs talking to Fortune magazine in 1996:
“If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it’s worth — and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.”
Steve Jobs in an interview at the AllThingsD Conference in May of 2007, about one month prior to the iPhone going on sale:
“But I think the question is a very simple one, which is how much of the really revolutionary things people are going to do in the next five years are done on the PCs or how much of it is really focused on the post-PC devices. And there’s a real temptation to focus it on the post-PC devices because it’s a clean slate and because they’re more focused devices and because, you know, they don’t have the legacy of these zillions of apps that have to run in zillions of markets.”
WebKitBits:
Jay Robinson posts a great comparison between WebKit’s Web Inspector and Firefox’s Firebug extension.
WebKitBits has featured the Web Inspector rundown I wrote about in December. Some of these issues have already been addressed in the WebKit Nightlies.
Danny Glunz:
Then you jump off into the lake.
My friend, Danny, is spending 5 months in Rotorua, New Zealand. He takes great pictures of what must be one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
He also helps out with NZ Word of the Day, which is a cool way to learn their slang. I hope he keeps it up. Check him out!
Like any cultural artifact highlighted during an Apple Keynote, Wet and Woofy has become a part of the eternal Apple canon and will never not exist. Archived for posterity.
The stately San Francisco Victorian home is on sale for $4.1 million. Located in Alamo Square on the city’s famous Postcard Row, the property was featured in one episode in which the family picnicked in front of it.
Wasn’t the assumption always that they lived right there?
Via Jamie Martin.
"I’m not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much and in-the-future distance becomes an excuse for postponing action."
Timothy Ferriss
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Ray Barbee - Find Enjoyment
(25 plays)
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody?
My Ideal Finder Window-size
"It doesn’t fucking matter! I happen to write in Emacs. I also code in Emacs, which is a nice bonus. Other people write and code in vi. Other people write in Microsoft Word and code in TextMate+ or TextEdit or some fancy web-based collaborative editor like EtherPad or Google Wave. Whatever. Picking the right text editor will not make you a better writer. Writing will make you a better writer. Writing, and editing, and publishing, and listening — really listening — to what people say about your writing. … Just fucking write, then publish, then write some more."
Mark Pilgrim wants to run the same computer for 20 years. And he doesn’t care what word processor you use.
New York Times, Steve Jobs and the Economics of Elitism:
“Apple represents the ‘auteur model of innovation,’ … tight connection between the personality of the project leader and what is created.”
