Stephen Gordon on A weightless Apple iPhone floats across the screen - 'Waiting for the new color called Moonlight.'
on A weightless Apple iPhone floats across the screen - 'Why not both? 😉 Maureen O’Hara for me, but the choice is difficult. I hope that they all lived very happy lives.'
on Saturday Apple video: Steve Jobs' 1999 campus speech - 'Yep, Anice. Steve Jobs & Co. Made Apple Great Again. And oh how ironic that, after just one year of Trump 2.0, we now have to do an enormous amount of work to simply MAAGAIWA (Make America As Good As It Was Again)….'
on A weightless Apple iPhone floats across the screen - 'iPhone. The official phone of NASA. Or is it also now being called: “Space Force?” I’m waiting for a comment from Lina Khan or Jonathan Kanter that this is an extreme Antitrust violation that mandates an injunction and stifles Android from being able to participate in the space program. An egregious suppression of innovation by eliminating a competitor from a high profile taxpayer funded governmental program. Will a lawsuit be filed before they circle the moon? Before the capsule splashes down? Or after they splashdown? Is it true the real reason the toilet malfunctioned was because one of the astronauts who happens to be a longtime terrestrial Android user flushed their iPhone down the toilet as a protest of sorts?'
on A weightless Apple iPhone floats across the screen - '”Hopefully they’re shooting their videos in 3D mode! ” The thought has my heart palpitating like a 16 year old (1963) being introduced to Sophia Loren.'
on Morgan Stanley: Apple upgrade rates are at all-time highs (video) - 'I think part of the “blindness” you reference is willful. Or sadistic. Many people want “Apple schadenfreude” (i.e. “Apple is doomed”, which we all so frequently reference). And when you add to that technical ignorance/incompetence/disingenuity, you get a lot of people saying things that are technically inaccurate and/or dishonest.'
on Saturday Apple video: Steve Jobs' 1999 campus speech - 'Steve was MAGA back in 1999…. Make Apple Great Again 😀 It’s informal, but Steve unpacks what makes Apple tick in this little talk and it’s just amazing to see how very spot on he was. Everybody was unbundling at the time except Apple. (Unless you count the in/out zigzag of Claris. Everybody was acquiring. Apple rarely did. In every major technology inflection point, the ability to synthesise the service the technology offers the human, absolutely depends on your being able to control “the whole stack” — in the case of Apple today — hardware, software and services. But beyond that, they also steward an ecosystem that makes them both, at one and the same time, broad and deep. You can hear Steve’s frustration when he speaks of the problem — how no one can co-ordinate around the goal. The Microsoft dig was classic! But Apple went ahead and worked with partners they could align with, built trust and shared alignment — an ecosystem, not a supply chain, which is Tim’s defining legacy at Apple, the operationalisation of Steve’s vision. And that ecosystem includes us, the 2 billion Apple devices that are active in the hands of humans all over the world, no matter their passion or purpose. The Macbook Neo is born into that ecosystem, and the original mission of the Macintosh, technology for the rest of us, is burning brighter than ever in its 42 year history. Just like the iBook a generation ago took portable and wireless computing to the ordinary consumer, the Macbook Neo will make computing, the internet, AI accessible to the world with privacy, trust and performance unmatchable by the competition at any price. all because they build the whole widget.'
on A weightless Apple iPhone floats across the screen - 'Hopefully they’re shooting their videos in 3D mode! That would be great to share and tie in to Apple’s upcoming AVP video of the launch. 🙂'
on Saturday Apple video: Steve Jobs' 1999 campus speech - 'The easiest person in the world to listen to. No word salad. No talking down to his audience. A little hyperbole, but it never felt like he was trying to convince himself of its reality. Optimistic about the future with the caveat of proper execution. Competent without overestimating his own competency. Conversational without boring you to death. God I miss that.'
on Larry Ellison's AI meltdown - 'Most of us, even of relatively modest means, actually have way more than enough…'
on Larry Ellison's AI meltdown - 'I heard this story about Larry Ellison when at Apple some years ago. They say its true. Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs were talking and Larry said “I have a $160 million super-yacht, I own the whole island of Lanai, multiple mansions around the wold, etc. etc…. Steve replied “Yes Larry, that’s very nice. But I have one thing you’ll never have.” Larry: “What’s that?” Steve: “I have enough.”'
