Bill fired up his demo and it quickly filled the Lisa screen with randomly-sized ovals, faster than you thought was possible. But something was bothering Steve Jobs. "Well, circles and ovals are good, but how about drawing rectangles with rounded corners? Can we do that now, too?
Cute story of how rounded corners were introduced to Macintosh.
Since the close of the eighth D: All Things Digital conference, we’ve been inundated with requests for a downloadable version of Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs’s opening-night session with co-hosts Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.
Great audio interview with Jobs. One may hate him, but this man HAS charisma.
Steve Jobs reportedly replied immediately with: There are no reception issues. Stay Tuned.
On very much related side: Steve Jobs Email Reply Generator.
And unlike other Apple rivals, like Adobe, Google execs weren't huffing and puffing and wringing their hands about Apple's bad behavior. No, instead, Google was mocking Apple. Making fun of it. Laughing at it.
Daniel Lyons, of Fake Steve Jobs fame, predicts Jobs' doom. Yawn.
As much as Jobs and his actions anger me, and as harsh as I was to him, I came away from the exchange impressed with his willingness to engage.
Gawker's journalist engage in emotional email debate with Steve Jobs. I like the final quote from Jobs the most, even if that's an ad hominem argument:
By the way, what have you done that's great? Do you create anything, or just criticize others and belittle their motivations?
There are three points I wish to address specifically to illustrate just how hypercritical the letter is: Carbon, H264, and iTunes on Windows (or iTunes' non-existence on Linux).
Rebuttal to Steve Jobs article on Flash.
Steve had managed to get Don Knuth, the legendary Stanford professor of computer science, to give a lunchtime lecture to the Mac team.
Steve Jobs, the only person who has read Knuth's books.
And what kind of fucked up world do we live in where the biggest rock star on the planet makes inert objects, doesn’t even play music?
Steve Jobs replies to customer emails.
