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Call yourself an ass&#$e for me
The Mac Observer has a nice story about an email conversation with Steve Jobs in 1996, asking him to “please let Apple alone” and not come back to run the company. Michell Smith wrote to Jobs to tell him:
“Please,’ I implored him, ‘don’t come back to Apple, you’ll ruin it.”
To which Jobs responded with this gem:
“You may be right. But if I succeed, remember to look in the mirror and call yourself an asshole for me.”
That guy was a character.
iPad, three years later
I was there three years ago, Saturday April 3rd, 2010, in a line at a local Best Buy with my brother. The damn thing is all banged up, with a little crack on the screen, still working. Surviving what my son does to it.
Chinese Government praises Apple for Apology
With its rare apology, Apple Inc went from pariah to praiseworthy in the eyes of China’s state-controlled media, a lesson for other foreign firms not to underestimate the speed and power of the government press.
Last week, the Chinese Government chastised Apple for their warranty policies. Tim Cook sent a public apology for the misunderstanding, announcing changes to said policies. Today the Chinese praise Apple, and say that other companies should follow the example. People talk, stuff gets resolved. Go figure.
Apple No 1 for 9th consecutive time for smartphone customer satisfaction
If there’s one thing J.D. Power & Associates semi-annual report on customer satisfaction can agree upon, it’s that Apple is – and has been for quite some time – the best in smartphone customer satisfaction. Based on a 1,000 point scale with points given for performance, physical design, features, and ease of operation, Apple ranks a full 60 points ahead of the 2nd place combatant – Nokia. While the study average sits at 796 points, Apple is the only one that rises above it with 855 – that’s not to say that the competition isn’t relatively close behind, but it is true that Apple is also the only manufacturer that rates a 5 on the Power Circle Ratings 1-5 scale for smartphones as well.
So, it is true, Apple is DOOMED!
New adware trojan targets OS X users
Adware attacks against OS X are on the rise this year, says a report by anti-virus company Doctor Web. The Russian firm recently discovered another threat, Trojan.Yontoo.1, which has quickly become the most prominent adware trojan attacking Apple desktops and laptops.
The trojan worms its way onto your computer through websites that require you to install a plugin to view the content of the site. The most common vector are movie trailer websites that prompt you to install an HD Video player or similar plugin. Instead of a media plugin, unsuspecting users will download the trojan.
Never install a plugin that a web page is asking you to install. If there is an update to something like flash or Java, go to Adobe or Oracle and download from there.
Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over Screen Ghosting on Retina MacBook Pros
Ghost images of previous content have been widely demonstrated on some Retina MacBook Pros, as in the above video. A support thread on apple.com on the issue currently runs to over 7000 posts across almost 500 pages. Apple uses displays manufactured by both Samsung and LG in its Retina laptops, and it has been strongly indicated that the issue affects mostly machines with LG screens. Apple has so far made no statement on the issue beyond a support document in which it describes “image persistence” as a characteristic of IPS displays and gives some advice on minimizing the effects.
I would be pissed if that happened to my laptop.
GNOME Creator Ditches Linux For Mac
To me, the fragmentation of Linux as a platform, the multiple incompatible distros, and the incompatibilities across versions of the same distro were my Three Mile Island/Chernobyl.
Without noticing, I stopped turning on the screen for my Linux machine during 2012. By the time I moved to a new apartment in October of 2012, I did not even bother plugging the machine back and to this date, I have yet to turn it on.
Even during all of my dogfooding and Linux advocacy days, whenever I had to recommend recommended a computer to a single new user, I recommended a Mac. And whenever I gave away computer gifts to friends and family, it was always a Mac. Linux just never managed to cross the desktop chasm.
Via CultofMac
Apple Up, Android down
ComScore’s January numbers are out today and they have Google (and everyone else) losing ground to Apple. Android dropped to 52.3% from 53.6 percent of US Smartphone subscribers while Apple climbed 3.5 points to 37.8%. Both OS’s are now over 90% of the base.
DOOMED.
