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I am still incredibly sad about Steve’s death. I haven’t been able to read the book published last year and I wonder what he could have accomplished. I will leave you with Steve narrating “The Crazy Ones.”
The issue manifests as one recipient declining an invitation which mistakenly cancels the meeting for everyone, “hijacking” the meeting out from under the original organizer.
Reports are the bug has actually gotten worse with iOS 6.
Unfortunately for Apple’s soft-spoken chief executive, he has been incessantly compared to his predecessor after every presentation, successes and failures. “To simply put Steve Jobs on some sort of pedestal and say Apple could do no wrong under Steve’s leadership is wrong,” said Gartner analyst Michael Gartenberg. Remember Ping, Apple’s failed attempt at a social network centered around music?
Lots of good info about what Tim has done to change Apple’s corporate culture in the past year. On the whole, a balanced thoughtful look at Apple a year after Steve’s passing – unlike the vast majority of articles that have invoked Steve Jobs in the past year.
Then again, we’d expect nothing less from a former Macworld colleague.
Alee Karim at SFWeekly has compiled a list of the ten most unreadable logos from black metal music groups. Black metal isn’t my favorite genre so I admit that I’m not familiar with most of the bands on this list, but there’s no question that some of these are absolute typographical nightmares. Truth be told, most of them look like Rorschach tests to me.
Apple proposed a reciprocal patent agreement to Samsung in the months leading up to their landmark trial, but the two could not arrive at a deal acceptable to both companies.
The deal would have enabled Apple to license from Samsung its 3G/UMTS patents. Samsung disagreed with the terms of the license, suggesting that it was owed a lot more than Apple was willing to pay.
In honor of the classic flick, we took a look at one of its biggest stars (literally and figuratively) André Roussimoff — known to the world as André the Giant. The legend himself has been gone for almost twenty years but his name and image are still a major part of pop culture.
In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook (FB) from his Harvard University dorm room, hoping to see what his classmates were up to on campus. The following eight years brought international fame, unimaginable wealth, a hit Hollywood movie, a disastrous initial public offering, a sagging stock price—and one unprecedented achievement. On Sept. 14, the company reached 1 billion active users.
According to Interbrand, Apple’s brand value increased 129 percent to reach an estimated $76.5 billion, the most growth shown by any of the top 100 companies on the global list. In determining value, the firm measures financial performance of branded products or services, the role of brand in the purchase decision process and the overall strength of the brand.
On this week’s episode of Amplified, Jim and Dan discuss advertising for mobile devices, Nokia’s financial woes, untold stories about Steve Jobs, growth of the tablet market and the rumored “iPad Junior”, the iPhone 5’s vibrations, AT&T’s coverage and dead zones, Apple Maps, Stevie Ray Vaughan, blues, guitars, and more!Sponsored by Shutterstock (use code DANSENTME10 for 30% off any package), Squarespace (use code DANSENTME10 for 10% off), Shopify (three months free on signup), and CacheFly
Advice for guys who are struggling to deal with their receding hairlines: You might just want to shave it all off. A recent study involving three separate experiments has shown that men who shear the hair off their heads are perceived as being more dominant, taller, and even stronger.
To borrow Jim’s line for a moment, yep.
But the increased perception of masculinity comes at a price: namely, diminished attractiveness.
Dave Grohl took to the Foo Fighters Facebook page Tuesday with a note confirming the band will take a hiatus just a few days after his onstage comments at the Global Citizen Festival in New York led to rumors of a break-up.
One of the last shows they did was at the iPhone 5 launch, and I was there.
[First, some rambling crap about what the writer calls “Mapplegate;” that neologism alone angers me enough to want to put my fist through a wall. Then…]
Steve Jobs set the bar so ridiculously high that it’s almost unfair to criticize what happens on Cook’s watch. It’s like ridiculing David Lee Roth for not being able to successfully replace Howard Stern in morning drive radio. Roth was out of his league.
But let’s not stop you from suggesting that Tim Cook should be fired over “Mapplegate.”
Initiated already back in 1977 by Prof. Rido Busse, the negative award “Plagiarius” serves to inform the public about the problem of fakes and plagiarisms and the negative impacts they have on not only the economy as a whole, but also on small companies and designers.
