For sure looks that way. They could taking Apple to totally new heights using all the cash they have, but instead they chose to pay dividends. That says something.
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Live Coverage of Tim Cook's Interview Session at D10
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For sure looks that way. They could taking Apple to totally new heights using all the cash they have, but instead they chose to pay dividends. That says something.
He was always in the spotlight for me.
It just happens that the majority of people are stupid sheep and easily brainwashed into the latest fad.
What do you want them to do with their cash that would take Apple to "new heights"?
Steve was CEO of leading consumer electronics company. Any common man is aware of and used products created by Apple Inc. His keynotes always got lot of media coverage and non techie people too were interested in his keynotes to know about next cutting edge technology. Definitely millions felt sorrow when they heard news of Steve's Death
Dennis Ritchie was computer scientist. Very much known in world of programmers but private person compared to Steve Jobs . Non Technical crowd was not aware of genius Dennis Ritchie.
So comparing media coverage has no point.
Not everyone here is aware of greatest Architects , metallurgical scientists or biophysicist. How much media coverage their death/ birth anniversaries receive ??
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so the world should revolve around you ??
Do you mean John Gruber, one of the original designers and developers of the MarkDown formatting engine available on Windows, Mac and Linux and has been implemented in Java, Javascript, Lua, Scala, Ruby, Haskell, Clojure, PHP, and available as a formatting parser for a number of open source content management systems?
Do you mean THAT John Gruber?
Fair enough, but tell me, what have you done that's so fabulous that we should listen to you?
More to the point, is there any particular reason we should listen to Adam Lashinsky? Does he have better sources than Gruber? Since Apple invited Gruber to preview Mountain Lion and I have no recollection of Adam Lashinsky being there, then I would say perhaps not.
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We actually know quite a lot about what he's done since he's been at Apple for well over a decade and he's done quite well.
I really, really hope he'll get asked some proper questions.
Like if Apple isn't using the App Store to be anti-competitive on iOS, why don't they adopt the Gatekeeper model from Mountain Lion on it?
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Like if Apple isn't using the App Store to be anti-competitive on iOS, why don't they adopt the Gatekeeper model from Mountain Lion on it?
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In the spotlight for you and in the spotlight of the public eye are two very different things. I don't think I will argue.
1st session interview for Cook!!!
This must be a different experience for Tim. He must be quite nervous. It is not a promotional event anyways, although analysts will actually try to get as many insights into future Apple products as possible.
Best of luck Tim!!!
This must be a different experience for Tim. He must be quite nervous. It is not a promotional event anyways, although analysts will actually try to get as many insights into future Apple products as possible.Best of luck Tim!!!
Or....
Why does it take so long to make a new mac pro?
Mac Pro is being killed off. Siracusa had an interesting slice of information he relayed at the end of this week's Hypercritical podcast. I don't think we'll even see one more refresh of the product. It's over.
Well, ignoring the fact that this image is overly biased (without Jobs we probably won't have object oriented programming/proportional fonts/computer mouse etc.), I agree that its unfair. However, Jobs is a public person while Ritchie was only known in a small circle of specialists. How many people know the names of people like Alan Turing, William Shockley or Douglas Engelbart? That Ritchie didn't receive the fame he deserved is a problem of the education system and hardly a fault of Jobs.
Jobs was very blunt, and not afraid to call it like he saw it. Almost to the point where it made you stop, and think "how rude". But he was usually, but not always right!Lets just say SJ was very talented, with a bit less of the nice
I don't agree with the original posts attacking Gruber for a laundry list of different reasons. But I think we all know why Gruber has great sources within Apple. And it isn't because they respect his accomplishments creating Markdown, or his remarkable objectivity in covering all things Apple and related technologies.
So far Gruber has been lucky in that Apple's biggest failures are in the area he is completely disinterested: web services. So he was never going to go around championing Mobile Me as the best thing since sliced bread. And equally, he's had very little to say about iCloud. When Apple starts churning out dud devices that don't work properly that's when Daring Fireball will be an interesting read. He hasn't had much of an opportunity to make himself look stupid because he really went full-time with his site around the time Apple was turning its business around with great products.
You just reinforced his point. A guy who wrote a plain text to HTML converter really has no legs to stand on when talking about syscall interfaces, OS level API design and OS design in general, like pointed to. Critiquing someone the likes of Avie, an OS engineer who wrote much of what is basically OS X today was very poor on Gruber's part.
There's no mistaking Gruber's bias and incompetence when it comes to systems design. His web skills notwithstanding.
Americans favor entrepreneurs over academics/researchers. They also favor stories of success after failure.
Jobs started Apple, Next, rescued Apple, and guided Pixar through a groundbreaking era in animation. He also was also an important player in the music and film industries.
You seem very quick to denigrate others. It substantially negates whatever your message is and implies that you have some serious validation issues.
Episode 69? I just had a quick listen and I think you're overstating the significance of his guesses by quite a margin there. He even stated he didn't have any information on it and was just guessing based on the fact there hasn't been one in a while.
Sure, that doesn't mean there will be another Mac Pro, but it's not like he had some inside knowledge, like your post might imply to some people.
But regardless, if Apple have decided to kill the Mac Pro off I think it would just be nice of them to tell everyone.
One of the developers of an html parser..impressive...
Wait a second, I am not saying anyone should listen to me instead? Is that the best you can do?
Another poster was rather rudely asked, "what do you think?" and instructed to read Gruber as if he was the apple gospel.
Gruber ranks high in the apple evangelist scale, has a few phone numbers inside of Cupertino, and his verbose adulatory blogging has been used by apple to very apparently plant leaks and present products that didn't warrant a keynote such as mountain lion.
But he is nothing by trade, not much of programmer and not a designer. I don't think he's qualified to speak about anything really. He's a dime a dozen commentator with links to apple basically. The only reason people are instructed to read him is because apple's official line goes via Gruber.