29/04/10

Flash Wow! This hurts! Steve Jobs open letter to Adobe about Flash, HTML5 and Open Standards

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Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.

link: Thoughts on Flash

20/02/09

Design The definition of design by Steve Jobs

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Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

16/01/08

Steve Jobs Macworld 2008 Keynote in 60 Seconds or how to save a 1Gb dowload

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I was following the life coverage of Steve Jobs Keynote at Macworld yesterday via Engadget waiting for the final “one more thing” thing. Well this time the rumors got it right and out of the envelope came the much hyped MacBookAir; a nice piece of engineering, design and portability.

As usual, the day after I rushed to iTunes to learn from the master of all em cees only to realize that the whole keynote is available at a cost of a 1Gb download (must be HD) and some 45 minutes of your iLife. I obviously cancelled the download.

But thanks to a comment by Xavier I found a version on YouTube where you get about the same info in a minute plus the fun of the edit.

Watch Steve Jobs Macworld 2008 keynote in 60 seconds.

15/01/08

Apple Macworld 2008: Keynote final predictions (comments roundup)

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People are more than excited about today Steve Jobs’ keynote and the term MacBookAir is blogged about everywhere.

I’ll be following the event via Engadget.com life blogging as I did last year (this year they even have Spanish).

If you want to follow it here’s the schedule:

07:00AM – Hawaii
09:00AM – Pacific
10:00AM – Mountain
11:00AM – Central
12:00PM – Eastern
05:00PM – GMT / London
06:00PM – Paris
08:00PM – Moscow
02:00AM – Tokyo (January 16th)

But as much as I enjoy the keynote with Jobs’ “booms” and “one more things” I enjoy the rumors prior to it. Here’s a compilation of predictions taken from the comments at Engadget.com.

• Steve is going to wear a black turtleneck w/ jeans tucked into jeans sans belt.
• Not only that, I bet Steve’s first words will be, “Good Morning”
• People are going to applaud when no applause is necessary
• Yellow Submarine iPod, Beatles music
• 1 more thing = iSoap. Cleans all mac touch-based products
• one more thing announcement: “I’m retiring”
• Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr on stage to announce the Beatles on iTunes
• iPhone SDK will be Android
• He will announce that those who take his apple-flavored serum will be invited into Promise City, and the rest will remain at the Gates.

They’re all funny but somehow they make you think.

And one more thing: the macbookair.com domain registration and the redirection to http://www.apple.com/?Will+We+see+a+MacBookAir+on+Tuesday is a fake.

Try http://www.apple.com/?ganyet.com+featured+best+blog+by+Apple and you’ll land on the same page with the image avobe.