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Alfred Scott
Joined: 15 Apr 2004
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Location: Richmond, VA
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 Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:06 am Post subject: Inside Steve's Brain book |
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I've been on vacation for the past week, and picked up a book called "Inside Steve's Brain" at the airport. It's an excellent and well-researched book and it gives a very in-depth analysis of how things work at Apple, the thought processes that have gone into the various designs, including the Apple stores (each of which is more profitable than a Walmart big-box store), the reasons for the secrecy surrounding new designs (marketing and all the publicity they generate when they pull back the curtains on a new design), the personalities and talents of various people, etc.
Highly recommended and it will give you all a renewed sense of confidence in Apple.
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pbacot
Joined: 15 Apr 2004
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Location: Northern California
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| Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:15 am Post subject: |
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Some might be interested in checking out the latest Keynote by Steve Jobs, back in action after his liver transplant. Just go to Apple.com.
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patrickm
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
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Location: santa barbara, ca
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| Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:43 am Post subject: |
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Also (possibly) of interest is the movie "MacHEADS". My local SB Mac Users Group (yep, we still have one!) showed it at the last meeting and the movie chronicles the rise, fall and rebirth of Apple, along with the quirkiness of some Mac devotees. It was an entertaining hour and brought back memories of past products, some good, some not so good. It also was interesting to see how Apple has affected our lives -- the scenes shot at the 2007 MacWorld when people were blown away by the iPhone introduction, which has since become ubiquitous here in SB -- and that was just 2 1/2 years ago!
Also, the movie addresses the rise and fall of Mac User Groups (MUGs) -- our SBmug is at a crossroads: the membership is aging, young people don't seem to feel the desire to belong to a computer club and the directors are trying to figure out how (or why) to keep it alive.
cheers,
patrick
ps to Peter: Kona was awesome -- we paddled a non-traditional tahitian wood canoe and finished in the middle of the pack (70 out of 134), 2nd in our class (out of 3!). The race was probably the most brutal 2h20m of my life, but I think I'll be going back every year for now on! |
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pbacot
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Location: Northern California
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| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 8:59 am Post subject: |
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Patrick,
So you went "Ironman" (without changing out). My crew didn't do that. I remember digging like it was a regatta race. I was stroker. The race seems to allow for fun (like non-traditional boats, would like to see that Tahitian). Also there's the women's double hull race afterward.
Good for you, Patrick. I should get back into something like that....without the daily practices and weekend races though. Takes commitment.
Peter
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Davydd
Joined: 15 Apr 2004
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Location: Tonka Bay, MN
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I was a first 100 day Mac owner and was a member of Mini-app-les, a Mac User Group. I even hosted the monthly meeting and was involved in bringing in Mac developers (Guy Kawasaki three times) back in those heady days when they paid their own way to come (to Minneapolis). I had to secure a 500 seat community auditorium to host Bill Atkinson and the introduction of Hypercard (1987) when we normally met in a public library room. Those were very heady days mainly because there was a non-stop wow factor to present at every monthly meeting. It was exciting and the software was always new, not just rehash and improved. MacWorld every year was also very exciting. Just about the only thing that compares to those days was the introduction of the iPhone.
Also, most of the people involved in all the hoopla were the first adopters in personality. The Mac was not a necessity, it was a desire. BTW, you should appreciate Bill Stanley. His innovative, common sense desire made PowerCadd possible in understanding what Apple was doing. The CAD world was already tainted by mainframe nonsense, analog bits on and off, and AutoCAD way back then.
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Rob C
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Location: Southern Connecticut
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Agreed: The iPhone has the kind of excitement and flurry of application development that the Mac had in the beginning. Now the world of Mac application development (and competition) seems dead by comparison.
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