While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Think Different (via minimalmac)
Author: Aulia Masna
Former tech journo, used to write for Macworld, DailySocial, e27. Ex , ran a national startup initiative program in Indonesia. Very much into the news.
Chronology of Steve Jobs at Apple
From birth to his resignation as Apple CEO. Almost sounds like he died.
Enhance your calm.
Reuters ran this photoset of Steve Jobs mugshots that really shows the stark decline in Jobs’ health over the years. Good luck, chairman of the board.
Letter from Steve Jobs
August 24, 2011
To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:
I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.
I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.
As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.
I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.
I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.
Steve
Shortly after this letter was published, Apple announced that the board has elected Steve Jobs as Chairman and Tim Cook is now CEO and board member.
End of an era.
MP3tunes ruling opens the door for online music lockers
Google and Amazon could well be allowed to run their music locker cloud service without having to seek permission from record labels as the judge in the mp3tunes case puts the responsibility in users’ hands instead of the site’s operators’.
mp3tunes was found to infringe only on songs that it new were pirated but did not remove following a notice.
the DMCA imposes no obligation to investigate potentially infringing activity absent a specific complaint from copyright holders. The only exception is links to sites with URLs containing “red flag” words like “pirate” or “bootleg.
The quoted paragraph above means that without a specific notice from copyright holders, a site’s operator has no obligation to voluntarily check whether files stored in its servers are infringing on copyrights.
In the future, I think the thin line between smartphones and feature phones will slowly disappear. There will be no such thing as a smartphone. There will be just .. phones.
And Blackberries.
Hmm, someone seems to have some faith in RIM.
If Léo Apotheker had run Microsoft in the 1980s, it would have killed Windows in January of 1986.
I wish the rest of the world worked like the web. “*Pay* for a Big Mac? It should be free. Monetization is your problem. I’m a user. Free!”
What the $99 TouchPad firesale tells us about the tablet market
Harry McCracken on Technologizer:
the TouchPad fire sale–which probably appealed more to bargain-hunting gadget nerds than the masses–is such a bizarre event that it just doesn’t tell us that much about the potential market for very low-cost tablets.
Ian Betteridge puts it even more succinctly:
Nothing.
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