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Seeing people mourn Steve Jobs in public is making me uneasy. Was he a hero? Was he even a humanitarian? Richard Stallman, leader of the free software movement, has an alternative take on Steve Jobs’ life and passing… As one can surmise from that sendoff, Stallman’s and Jobs’ views on software as a business are [...]
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Ben Millen, an industrial designer and engineer from Canada, has constructed an interesting diagram of the ecosystem that supports Apple’s iPhone: These are not maps in any conventional sense, but rather diagramatic representations of the interconnected space of technology, capital, instrumental value, exchange value, social and environmental impact that surround the device… via Ben Millen [...]
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That’s right. Portal is now both free to download and playable on a Mac. Sweet!
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Steve Jobs has never been trend-setter fashion-wise. His taste in clothes is impossibly bland and predictable. He probably cares much more about the mark that Apple’s hardware and software will leave on the world than the medium-washed blue jeans and black mock-turtleneck he wears without fail.
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Have you heard that a new Apple Store is being built in the heart of our North/Clybourn traffic/shopping hell? Apple must be so thoroughly disgusted at the state of the CTA Red Line station there that they are kicking in $4M towards the renovation with only a tiny little string attached: [I]n exchange for the [...]
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A scant few weeks shy of its 8th b-day, the iPod gets an FM tuner. Wow. Actually it’s just the iPod Nano (8GB @ $149, 16GB @ $179), and it also gets a video camera. Here’s a list of the other features: Video camera (640×480) Integrated mic Integrated speaker FM Radio!!!!! One-click YouTube uploads Voice [...]
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Jobs has a new liver and Apple is about to get some new products….iTablet? The Apple Store
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With Steve Jobs on a health hiatus Apple has made few headlines of late. Or is an iPhone/iPod/iTunes/iMac news fatigue effect at work? Seems like the dip in coverage is suiting the makers of Macs just fine. According to CNBC’s Jim Goldman they just had their best quarter ever and aren’t looking back. Goldman implies [...]
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