Archive for April, 2005

Being Steve Jobs…

Friday, April 22nd, 2005

One thing I’ll never understand is why people follow what Steve Jobs does so closely. Are these the same people that have a secret stash of People magazine?
They’re in good company though. My co-worker (an ex-HP employee) once said that Carly Fiorina has a bad case of Steve Jobs-envy which pretty much hits the nail [...]

Does the Pokémon effect apply to Tiger developers?

Friday, April 15th, 2005

In his quid pro quo effort to convert me to the Dark side of the Force, Mark sent me this reference to a Gizmodo article.
Go to the site, and read some. The special powers are a nice touch. I wonder which cards are rare? I want the Jobs and Avi Tevanian card. Do you think [...]

A little bit about iTunes for the iPod generation.

Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

“I felt like a dope, I thought we had missed it. We had to work hard to catch up.”—Steve Jobs, CEO Apple, Inc. on digital music Fortune
Mark mentioned that he’s planning on buying an iPod Shuffle and later blogged that iTunes is missing features like skins. That hit me as a blast from the past.
Skins [...]