I put this on my iPhone this morning

iPhone wallpaper by Dan Peterson, based on the Steve Jobs/Apple logo silhouette image by Jonathan Mak.

Update: Mak got a job offer, thanks to his original design. He’s 19.

Thanks, Steve.

Posting designs like this one makes me paranoid, because I can’t shake the feeling that it’s not original. I enjoyed the process regardless, but please let me know if somebody else beat me to the idea!

Thoughts?

Source: jmak

Think Different as narrated by Steve Jobs

Visionary, innovator, leader.

I don’t know why people are making such a big fuss on whether Apple will release a brand new redesigned iPhone. The current models are fine as they are. If they’re gonna release a new phone, the design doesn’t have to be changed.

Apple didn’t change the iMac’s design for years at a time. The MacBook went through several revisions over two years without a new design. Same with the transition from PowerBook to MacBook Pro. Oh, and don’t get me started on the Power Mac G5 to Mac Pro.

The design of the iPhone 3G was maintained over two versions, so why not maintain the current form for the next release? iPhone 4 is still the top selling phone in the US, followed by the 3GS despite being more than 15 months old and in the case of 3GS, more than 24 months old. That tells you that the designs work pretty well. It’s never form over function.

One heck of a corporate press release

I’m still trying to tell myself that this is an actual press statement by Oracle about having been approached by Autonomy, never mind that the word “publicly” was misspelled or that it uses double and triple spaces after a period.

“After HP agreed to acquire Autonomy for over $11.7 billion dollars, Oracle commented that Autonomy had been ‘shopped’ to Oracle as well, but Oracle wasn’t interested because the price was way too high. Mike Lynch, Autonomy CEO, then publically denied that his company had been shopped to Oracle. Specifically, Mr. Lynch said, “If some bank happened to come with us on a list, that is nothing to do with us.” Mr. Lynch then accused of Oracle of being ‘inaccurate’. Either Mr. Lynch has a very poor memory or he’s lying. ‘Some bank’ did not just happen to come to Oracle with Autonomy ‘on a list.’ The truth is that Mr. Lynch came to Oracle, along with his investment banker, Frank Quattrone, and met with Oracle’s head of M&A, Douglas Kehring and Oracle President Mark Hurd at 11 am on April 1, 2011. After listening to Mr. Lynch’s PowerPoint slide sales pitch to sell Autonomy to Oracle, Mr. Kehring and Mr. Hurd told Mr. Lynch that with a current market value of $6 billion, Autonomy was already extremely over-priced. The Lynch shopping visit to Oracle is easy to verify. We still have his PowerPoint slides.”

25 more things Dalton Tanonaka finds unexplainable

I love this list. Some are quite profound while others are just as puzzling to me as it is to him. Some gems:

Why we’re still talking about compensation for Sidoarjo mudflow victims more than five years after the Lapindo drilling accident. Get it done.

How a Justice Ministry spokesman can deny that prison bribery and illegal inmate fees aren’t widespread. Try visiting a friend or family member behind bars. You’ll be approached for money as soon as you get out of your car. I was.

The number of times I see children without helmets riding along on motorbikes. Adults have a choice in risking brain damage. Their kids don’t.

and the funniest ones:

Why I was so late in jumping into Twitter.

Why I jumped into Twitter.

How to eat chicken with a spoon.

25 more things Dalton Tanonaka finds unexplainable

Looks like it’s game over for the PlayBook

“While Quanta last week acknowledged that it had laid off a significant number of production workers from a factory focused on producing the PlayBook, our research indicates that the ODM has essentially halted production of the tablet.

Additionally, our due diligence indicates that RIMM has canceled development of additional tablet projects.“

Colin Stewart analyst John Vinh

[update]

CNBC: