Steve Jobs on the Downturn
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 8:14PM "We've had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren't going to lay off people, that we'd taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place -- the last thing we were going to do is lay them off. And we were going to keep funding. In fact we were going to up our R&D budget so that we would be ahead of our competitors when the downturn was over. And that's exactly what we did. And it worked. And that's exactly what we'll do this time."
Brad Pitt Softbank Ad
Monday, December 15, 2008 at 9:05PM How long before we see Brad Pitt in a Japanese iPhone commercial?
iPhone Blame Bad Organization for Prop 8
Monday, December 15, 2008 at 8:07PM Rolling Stone: "This was political malpractice," says a Democratic consultant who operates at the highest level of California politics. "They fucked this up, and it was painful to watch. They shouldn't be allowed to pawn this off on the Mormons or anyone else. They snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, and now hundreds of thousands of gay couples are going to pay the price."
Why is it 9:42 in iPhone Ads?
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 8:05PM Kottke: "Apple usually uses 9:42 am for the iPhone, which is approximately when it was introduced at MacWorld 2007. Until recently, the icon for Apple's iCal displayed July 17 when not in use; iCal debuted at MacWorld 2002 on that date."
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