“Here’s to the Crazy Ones” — the first of Apple’s “Think Different” commercials. But this one is a bit different. It’s narrated by Steve Jobs himself.
Pretty much the greatest thing ever.
Source: youtube.com
Rest in peace, Steve Jobs.
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” - Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
Watch “Steve Jobs;How to live before you die
Rest in peace, Steve.
Source: parislemon
The “Mother-in-Law” effect on mainstream entertainment
Check out The End of Moore’s Law: A Love Story by Bing Gordon. It’s an excellent summary of what’s happening in the gaming industry. Social experiences and active participation are intrinsic to gaming more than other forms of entertainment, so the current state of gaming makes sense. I do wish that he had come up with a better term than “Mother-in-Law”… that’s not going to stick, but I’ll use it here. Very much worth a read.
The most fascinating part for me was the quote by Gordon Moore from 2005. When discussing Moore’s Law with Bing Gordon, he said “I never actually thought of it as a law, more as an observation to bet on.”
With Apple’s iTV and Google TV, perhaps “Mother-in-Law” is going to start applying quickly to other forms of mainstream entertainment as well (within the content, not just around the content). For example, when you are watching movies or TV shows through those devices, you will be prompted to add your own assets which interact with the on-screen experience… Apple and Google are certainly are betting on this big time. Of course, the billion dollar question around this has always been - will it get massive adoption (like it has in the gaming word), or do people simply want certain activities to remain passive? We’ll find out in 2011 :-)
Beautiful concept and execution of interactive textbooks for iPad. Check out Inkling.
Apple - Magic Trackpad - The Multi-Touch trackpad for your desktop. - Magic yes… but wait isn’t the consumer / prosumer desktop dead? It does look sexy.
Source: apple.com
Mystery pic from the app store (physical one)… guess:
1) Who it is
2) What’s in the bag
Go!
Haha, this might have been the funniest things I’ve seen in a while! iPhone4 vs HTC Evo (via tinywatchproductions)
Source: youtube.com
Reality distortion field (RDF) is a term coined by Bud Tribble at Apple Inc. in 1981, to describe company co-founder Steve Jobs’ charisma and its effects on the developers working on the Mac project. Later the term has also been used to refer to perceptions of his keynote (or Stevenote) by observers and devoted users of Apple computers and products.
Bud Tribble claimed that the term came from Star Trek.
In essence, RDF is the idea that Steve Jobs is able to convince himself and others to believe almost anything with a mix of charm, charisma, bluster, exaggeration, marketing and persistence. RDF is said to distort an audience’s sense of proportion or scale. Small advances are applauded as breakthroughs. Interesting developments become turning points, or huge leaps forward. Impossible-seeming schedules, requirements or specifications are acceded to. Snap judgments about technical merits of approaches are sometimes reversed without acknowledgment. Those who use the term RDF contend that it is not an example of outright deception but more a case of warping the powers of judgment. The term “audience” may refer to an individual whose attitudes Steve is intending to affect.
Often the term is used as a derogatory remark to criticize Apple’s products and its more enthusiastic fans.
The term has extended in industry to other managers and leaders, who try to convince their employees to become passionately committed to projects, sometimes without regard to the overall product or to competitive forces in the marketplace. It also has been used with regard to hype for products that are not necessarily connected with any one person.
Source: Wikipedia
![Apple Responds To Adobe [Humor]](http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/naveedl/599751133/1/tumblr_l2fz0iTFbg1qzqy0g)
As Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight duke it out over their plugin-based, HTML-alternative web platforms, Apple is using Gianduia, its new a client-side, standards based framework for Rich Internet Apps, to create production quality online apps for its retail users.
