"Steve was a firm believer in the fact that if you make the UI good enough, you should be able to do everything you needed to with one button" And unlike most of my computer engineer colleagues, I absolutely agree. A well designed UI should be completely usable with a one button mouse. The second button is good for advanced users, but it should not be a requirement for any functionality. This is similar to keyboard shortcuts.
Today is the 30th anniversary of the Mac. Apple put up a really nice site for it. My first Mac was a Macintosh Plus in 1987. I was a little kid doing stuff on it that no one else could do: desktop publishing, illustration, sound editing... It was a gigantic leap from anything else at the time and it completely changed computers forever.
New MacPros to be manufactured in my neighborhood?
They are adding some cool tricks to improve the camera. I find myself carrying a dedicated camera less and less because of this.
The new Mac Pro feels as visually striking as the Power Mac G4 Cube did back in the day. Hopefully this one will do better commercially. It's a monster, performance-wise. Cool website, too.
Very nice black and white animation and use of typography.
What I'm going to be doing at noon (Central Time).
It's such an obvious, blatant rip-off that it's not even funny.
I didn't know about this... I can get $315 FROM APPLE for my iPhone.
A young Steve Jobs speaking at the International Design Conference at Aspen in 1983. So he's speaking to a non-technical audience in 1983, before computers were mainstream. I'm always amazed by his eloquence, incredible mental clarity, and ability to see where technology was going.
In case you missed them, photos of an early iPad prototype were revealed yesterday. They are from 2002-2004. It is known that Apple was working on a tablet before they decided to release a phone first instead. This shows how far back Apple was experimenting with the touch interface and how long it must have taken to get all the pinching and tapping and momentum scrolling just right.
The most amazing part of this is that Samsung, not Microsoft, is the company that copies Apple the most nowadays.
This is how bullshit rumors are made: http://t.co/9wYcKlFg #apple #atv
Before #Apple was the market leader, #Samsung was ripping former market leader's design (and name): http://t.co/LYJdWMGU
A comparison between mobile phone OS shares, revenue share, market share, and the most striking part at the end. Scroll down to see.
Apple's CEO Steve Jobs on why Adobe's Flash is not allowed to run on iPhone, iPod, nor iPad. Nothing new here, but interesting to read directly from the source.
This is my first contribution to the Finer Things in iOS blog.
Are they lining up to buy the next Office?
Funny blog with things that Siri says.
Some of the little details that don't get much space on Apple's pages...