appletalk:the journey is the reward / appletalk:el camino es la recompensa

Cult of Mac:

#10.    ”It is not a sweatshop. You go in this place and it’s a factory but, my gosh, they’ve got restaurants and movie theaters and hospitals and swimming pools. For a factory, it’s pretty nice.”

#9.      ”Would you rather we were a Korean company, instead of an American company? Would you rather we weren’t innovating right here?

#8.      ”I get a lot of email and my address is out there. I can’t reply to all of these emails — I have a day job. Some people post them on the web, which is kind of rude.”

#7.       “I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can’t do that. I’d rather quit.”

#6.       “We never saw ourselves in a platform war with Microsoft, and maybe that’s why we lost.”

#5.       “We did not enter the search business. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them.”

#4.       “Please leave us alone.”

#3.       “I’m sorry about your girlfriend. Life is fragile.”

#2.     “My sex life is pretty good these days, Walt. How’s yours?”

#1.       “We’re not perfect.”

“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Mohandas Gandhi

En Minimal Mac:

JOBS: Apple had a monopoly on the graphical user interface for almost 10 years. That’s a long time. And how are monopolies lost? Think about it. Some very good product people invent some very good products, and the company achieves a monopoly.
But after that, the product people aren’t the ones that drive the company forward anymore. It’s the marketing guys or the ones who expand the business into Latin America or whatever. Because what’s the point of focusing on making the product even better when the only company you can take business from is yourself? So a different group of people start to move up. And who usually ends up running the show? The sales guy. John Akers at IBM (IBM ) is the consummate example. Then one day, the monopoly expires for whatever reason.
Q: Is this common in the industry?
Jobs: Look at Microsoft (MSFT ) — who’s running Microsoft?
Q: Steve Ballmer.
Jobs: Right, the sales guy. Case closed. And that’s what happened at Apple, as well.

Business Week

El CEO de Google deja el consejo de dirección de Apple, según palabras de Jobs porque va a tener que “recusarse” de demasiadas reuniones con el conflicto de intereses de Android y Chrome OS… según leo en Technologizer:

Unfortunately, as Google enters more of Apple’s core businesses, with Android and now Chrome OS, Eric’s effectiveness as an Apple Board member will be significantly diminished, since he will have to recuse himself from even larger portions of our meetings due to potential conflicts of interest … “Therefore, we have mutually decided that now is the right time for Eric to resign his position on Apple’s Board.”

En la noticia se cita un comunicado de prensa de Apple.

Una de las alianzas de Apple que más ha dado que hablar termina así…

Un rasgo del carácter, de la personalidad, del que Ballmer carece:

Ballmer: Bad economy is good news for us; who’ll pay $500 for an Apple logo now? La mala situación económica son buenas noticias para nosotros; ¿quién pagará ahora 500 dólares por un logo de Apple?

En Signal vs. Noise comentan las pasiones que levanta un nuevo producto de Apple, a favor y en contra.

Cito:
“There’s nothing quite like an Apple product launch to bring out every arm-chair profiler to describe exactly what kind of people are lining up to buy.

From the treasure trove of Engadget’s comments sections come these astute piece of analysis on who’s going to buy the new MacBook Air:
- It is a laptop for apple fans and people who rely on material goods to demonstrate their worth to other people.
- This seems to be an incredibly useless laptop that really only has a market among the yuppies and Mac sycophants with cash to waste on an underpowered, 1-USB port, overpriced toy that in the end just looks pretty and nothing else.
- It is primarily going to be purchased by people with too much time / money to do a little independant thinking (read: Starbucks junkies, college students with allowances from the parents, fashionistas, etc.).
- I know full well what people i will see with this laptop and they aint the sort of people i get along with. Pricks basicly.

Expected delivery: February 11th. Can’t wait to join the rest of the sycophantic yuppies down at Starbucks where we can flaunt our lack of independent thinking and worth through choice of computer. Awesome.”

En ririan project

“I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.”

1. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

2. “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

3. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”

4. “You know, we don’t grow most of the food we eat. We wear clothes other people make. We speak a language that other people developed. We use a mathematics that other people evolved… I mean, we’re constantly taking things. It’s a wonderful, ecstatic feeling to create something that puts it back in the pool of human experience and knowledge.”

5. “There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.”

6. “We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on.”

7. “I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year…. It’s very character-building.”

8. “I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.”

9. “We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?”

10. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

Buenas frases para épocas catárticas…

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.

Citas en Microsiervos…

Vídeos que no venden
“YouTube se ha convertido en una fosa común del márketing, donde pululan miles de vídeos virales que nadie quiere ver, simplemente porque no son contagiosos.”
•Jean-Remy von Matt, creativo y publicista, fundador de la agencia Jung von Matt

Deslumbrante
“Si no puedes deslumbrar con tu sabiduría, desconcierta con gilipolleces.”
•firma clásica en foros de internet

Guardar algo que me ayude a recordarte es como admitir que te puedo olvidar.

Leí esta cita hace ya tiempo y habita en mi escritorio desde junio de 2004. No recuerdo de quien es, pero quería compartirla con vosotros.