So clever. “Less Apps. More Apples.”
“And it works perfectly in direct sunlight.”
Brilliant.
Apple released iOS 6 today with over 200 new features for iPhone users. Despite what appears to be yet another win for the men and women in Cupertino, one casualty was spotted in the rollout — Declined Daniel — the young man getting dissed by every curious customer checking out Apple’s iOS website.
Tim Cook looks like he’s getting more comfortable on stage as the CEO of Apple. In fact, one might call him a smug son-of-a-bitch.
Steve was truly a visionary. Being a visionary is an intuitive faculty of being able to see beyond the current horizons of possibility. It is a powerful reflection of imagination not constrained by everyday boundaries. He was extraordinarily impatient with people who said “it couldn’t be done”. That was where some of his purported dictatorial unreasonableness would come from but in the end, he got what he wanted and everyone discovered that what seemed impossible could be done. Steve made the impossible possible.
Norman Seeff’s previously unpublished photos of Steve Jobs, 1984. Complement with this rare PBS documentary about Jobs and NeXT.

Samsung slaps their iPad-lookalike tablet screen on an Apple-lookalike keyboard to create an exceptionally blatant rip-off of a MacBook Air. It’s like they just don’t care. (via The Verge)
Yesterday Gizmodo got a hold of an Apple Store Genius Training Manual. They read it cover to cover and exposed its shocking techniques, like politeness and empathy. Today they announced they have found a leaked copy of a DiGiorno Pizza Training manual.
Over $1B awarded to Apple in the Samsung Copycat Trial — via The Verge.
Samsung has recently revealed that its flagship phone, the Samsung Galaxy S III, is designed for humans, inspired by streams and pebbles, not by Apple’s products. Yeah, I don’t buy it either.