I agree completely with Gruber. If you make a decision for your company, own it and explain it clearly for your customers. Don’t bullshit.

Congrats to Shawn.

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Ben Thompson nailed this one.

The analyst’s comments about docking stations etc. are asinine and Rene Ritchie agrees. The future of computing is going to be about us, and not as much about the device we carry. The device to make this all work could be as small as a pin, but more powerful than anything on the market today.

Evil.

You have to love smart people.

iMore has a lot of great how-tos on its site. I didn’t expect this one, but Allyson Kazmucha wrote up a piece if you want some help.

This is such a great story on what can happen if your phone number shows up on the news just after Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone.

There are some amazing photos here.

[Via Coudal]

There is no reason Apple should move an inch. Samsung are thieves.

In case you were interested in using it.

A symbolic moment, this: in Q4 2013 the number of computers* sold by Apple was larger than the number of Windows PC sold globally. If you add Windows Phone to the mix they’re more or less exactly equal.

Microsoft spent so much time laughing at Apple. Not any more.

The Loop Magazine Issue 21:

In this issue Seamus Bellamy interviews The Pogues Spider Stacy; Philip Michaels looks at the advantages of watching movies and sports at home; Kirk McElhearn wonders about an iPod pro; Darren Murph looks at how the skies have changed since in the introduction of Wi-Fi; and Chris Domico talks about console gaming and the iPhone.

A free preview is available for every article in the app.

More people should listen to Jason Fried. It’s okay to recommend people talk to someone else when they ask for advice.

Microsoft Corp’s Windows 8 system has racked up more than 200 million license sales since its launch 15 months ago, according to Tami Reller, its head of marketing, lagging Windows 7 which sold 240 million within its first year.

I’m not surprised.

Unfortunate.

Don’t listen to Google’s bullshit about being open. Creepy as fuck, yes; Open, not so much.

Om Malik:

If it is allowed to gobble up its number two rival, Time Warner Cable, Philadelphia-based Comcast will become the largest broadband provider in the United States, and perhaps the largest outside China. The two companies together will control about half of what is called triple-play services — video, voice and internet — in the U.S. The two companies together would have about 33 million broadband connections that brought in about $18 billion in broadband revenue during 2013.

The numbers are almost too much to comprehend.

IDC collectively referred to iOS and Android as accounting for 93.8 percent of all smartphone shipments in 2013, describing the two platforms as pursuing opposite strategies without referencing the fact that Apple earns the majority of the world’s handset profits. “Android relied on its long list of OEM partners, a broad and deep collection of devices, and price points that appealed to nearly every market segment,” wrote IDC’s Research Manager Ramon Llamas, without providing any context on how that strategy resulted in lost profits for the majority of manufacturers who use Android, including Google’s own Motorola subsidiary. “Apple’s iOS, on the other hand,” Llamas continued, “relied on nearly the opposite approach: a limited selection of Apple-only devices, whose prices trended higher than most. Despite these differences, both platforms found a warm reception to their respective user experiences and selection of mobile applications.”

This report and comments from IDC just stink. The iPhone took over 87% of the handset profits worldwide.

Will Connors for the WSJ:

Samsung recently won an order for roughly 7,000 smartphones from the U.S. Army and is close to an order for several thousand devices from the U.S. National Security Agency, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Surely they’re aware of all the malware on Android, right?

Bruce Lee often told students that if they already thought they “knew” everything, they should leave his class.

“If your cup is full, you cannot fill it. So first, empty your cup.”

Things like this can apply in so many circumstances. People that “know” everything are a pain.

I really like Ben Bajarin’s analysis.

Peter Cohen has some interesting thoughts on what the Mac will look like in 30 years. I think technology is moving so fast, we won’t even recognize the computer industry in 30 years. Whether it’s a Mac, iPad, or some other combined post-pc device, we’ll be living in a different world with different needs.