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A K.I.S.S. from Apple

Genius Like pretty much everyone else I know, I am about half-way through Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. There are many take-aways from the book, which I urge you to read, but one that really is sticking with...

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Home Work

9 AM in the edit suite The New York Times this week reported on an interesting experiment that was tried at Inc Magazine. They created their April issue from home, without going to the office. Well, why some stuff...

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1984 Again

On the cutting edge of 1984 Exactly 26 years ago this week, Apple released the MacIntosh computer. January 25, 1984 to be exact. The Mac was a radical step forward in the world of computing. It was built on...

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Killer Ap

The Steve Jobs of his day… In 1889, The British Army invaded Matebeleland, what we would today call Zimbabwe. The pretext for the invasion was in some ways immaterial. The driver was the belief that there were vast gold...

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Apple’s iTablet?

How many video aps can you imagine? Amazon sold close to a half million Kindles last year and may sell even more this year, but Kindle has an inherent structural problem – it only can carry text. Wired is...

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What Makes A Master of the Universe?

Masters of the Universe, ca. 1526…2008 The portrait above left is Sir Thomas More done by Hans Holbein the Younger around 1526. At the right, Steve Jobs. More was the Privy Counselor to King Henry VIII, the number two...

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