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Everyone is entitled to at least one really bad hair style in their lifetime.
You don’t need an office to become the richest company in the United States.
Unintentional “STFU” of social apps on my iPhone deck.
Background location aware apps have infiltrated the iOS app store. Foursquare can now poll the iPhone’s location (GPS) when the app is not open and running, giving way to new user experience like prompting for more check-in behavior and most likely suggesting or advertising nearby highlights.
Fingers crossed. iOS 5 and iCloud migration underway…
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We believe that we’re on the face of the Earth to make great products, and that’s not changing.
We’re constantly focusing on innovating.
We believe in the simple, not the complex.
We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution.
We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us.
We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot.
And frankly, we don’t settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self-honesty to admit when we’re wrong and the courage to change.
And I think, regardless of who is in what job, those values are so embedded in this company that Apple will do extremely well.
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Building the ultimate iPhone demo rig at B&H Photo
The restore DVD has been replaced with a USB stick on the new MacBook Air. Works as good if not faster than the DVD.
A Ping In The Ass
The friending process is asymmetrical like Twitter but it’s a messy process. Users have to comb through their address books manually for email addresses of friends to add them to their Ping friends list. Facebook and Apple had plans for integration that fell through, but the back up plan could have been much better. Why not let us check Twitter friends, Gmail address book or even the Apple Address Book?
Once you find some friends, there doesn’t appear to be much to do with them. You have to go to the iTunes store to rate, like or comment on anything which seems backwards considering the place that knows what you are interested in most is not the iTunes store but rather your own media library. From your media library, you have to click through to the store to do your pinging.
The social functionality of Ping is completely hidden from iTunes users. Unlike Apple’s Mail, iCal and other social web apps like Facebook, there’s no “Unread” count for events happening on Ping. The iTunes icon in the dock should tell me how many new events have happened on Ping so there’s a reason to go look and participate. This is just one of many areas where Ping misses the mark in its first release.
