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.
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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.
An evolution of foursquare design from January 2009 – August 2011
One of the great things about working on one product is the ability to iterate; the bad thing is you never feel like you’re done.
When foursquare started there was no real visual design on the app. Naveen was coding it up alone and he used all native Apple UI elements. I was helping out on the side and slowly we added custom elements and branding and for SXSW 2010 we did our first visual pass at the design. At that point I was doing everything, and it showed. One person can only do so much. Now we have a talented group of UI and UX designers and these days I mostly work on the iOS app.
We just put out a new build complete with a new blue navigation bar, photos inline, single tap cells and a newly designed check-in detail screen. I’m really proud of this current iteration of the app and can’t wait to see it continue to evolve.
Twitter landscape in Indonesia 2011
Saling silang published a report on the state of “social media” in Indonesia for the first half of 2011 which you can see on Slideshare. Some of the highlights with regards to Twitter:
- There are nearly 85 million internet users in Indonesia according to Business Measurement Intelligence report
- Third most active country on Twitter with 13% of tweets, nearly doubles the UK at 4th place with 7%. The US tops the list with 28% of tweets, followed by Brazil with 24%.
- Nearly 1.3 million tweets per day collectively
- No day is significantly more chatty than the other.
- The busiest times during the day are between 5 pm and 10 pm (33% of tweets) but mornings make up 30% of tweets.
- Jakarta is the most tweeting city with 13% of tweets, followed by Yogyakarta with 11.7% and Surabaya with 11.3%.
- Nearly 87% of tweets are from mobile devices.
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