At Macworld, when I asked Mr. Jobs about the idea of an iPod Touch in a larger “Safari Pad” format, he snapped at me, “I can’t talk about unannounced products.”
[From Reading Steve Jobs - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog]
Oh please. Please. Take my money.
- MacBook Air is selling like hotcakes? Yet, it shouldn’t according to Woz. I tend to agree with him.
- IE8 is going to be standards compliant “by default”. Can still break the internet as a feature.
- Don’t call me Centrino mini, call me Atom. Makes sense that Apple is going to use the processors.
- Torture, elections, immigration, war, social classes. It’s not the news: It’s Battlestar Galactica.
“The 20th century was about sorting out supply,” Potter says. “The 21st is going to be about sorting out demand.”
[From This Psychologist Might Outsmart the Math Brains Competing for the Netflix Prize]
I find this brilliant. Most of the tools we learn at the MBA come from the supply side: Quality in Production, Supply Chain Management, and even Marketing Research is done consumer facing attitude. Makes sense to me that it’s time to turn the tables.
After doing the tumble blog thingy for a while I’m back to this blog. I felt that while very comfortable to just point to websites with quotes, the end result barely usable.
By using a blog format I force myself extract more out of the news item or website I’m pointing at.
Paul Thurrott’s makes a very good point. Sad, but true:
Now we know there are no secret features. And now we know that OS X is as mature an OS as is Windows and, in the end, there’s really just not much you can do beyond the evolutionary stuff. (via:tuaw.com)
