“Here in Silicon Valley, we’re all about change. Out with orchards, in with tilt-ups. Out with analog, in with digital. Out with print, in with online. Amid all this, it’s comforting to know that some things stay the same. Apple Computer, for instance,” Evelyn Richards writes for The San Jose Mercury News. “Funny, I realized, how Apple has in many ways changed the world, changed us, but not itself.”
“Sure, it’s a much bigger operation now — 15,000 employees instead of 1,000 at the IPO. Sales of $14 billion instead of $117 million. A focus on entertainment and the iPod, not just personal computers. From the inside, it must seem like so much more of a bureaucracy, with the many regimens and rivalries that size delivers. But for those of us on the outside, observers and customers, today’s Apple Computer — at its core — bears a remarkable resemblance to that of the early years,” Richards writes. “The company’s most enduring principle is summed up best with its own 1997-1998 advertising slogan, ‘Think Different.’ (Even the word choice broke the rules.)”
“By thinking differently itself, by taking risks, by retaining a touch of its counterculture roots, Apple has innovated again and again over 30 years. The company has shown consistency in other ways, too: delivering power to the individual. Executing with elegance. Building loyalty and hype, even fanaticism, with secrecy and proprietary technologies,” Richards writes. “And let’s not forget that, except for Jobs’ estrangement from 1985 to 1997, Apple has been shaped by the same headstrong co-founder, a man with incredible vision, little tact and a bounce in his walk. Few companies can claim such consistency.”
“Nowadays, Apple is so impenetrable, journalists complain. Why not? Suspense, surprise, staging — they’re all part of the 30-year-old recipe. Remember, Jobs closeted the Mac team in ‘Texaco Towers’ a few blocks from headquarters and kept a tight seal on the pirate band’s work. As the day approached, Apple stoked the world’s curiosity with its now-famous 1984 Super Bowl ad, whose powerful images urged viewers to reject conformity and authority and embrace their individuality,” Richards writes. “A few weeks ago, I spotted the celebrity CEO walking alone in his quiet Palo Alto neighborhood. It was early on a Thursday afternoon. What change was Jobs pondering? The imminent introduction of the Intel-based Mac mini? The digital living room? Apple eventually buying Disney? I don’t know. But I do know he had that trademark bounce in his step.”
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I was testing out a new iPod. The iWalk.
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Bozo me.
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They innovated the first insecure Unix environment.
They innovated the first overpriced iPod boombox and leather iPod cases too!!
Yo hey, First Post!
Loser!
Oh First Post, or rather Sputnik, will you never learn?
Microsoft, the creator of the Virus/Spyware market. It has so many problems with it they have to rewrite 60% of the code for Vista. Yeah..innovation.
“…they have to rewrite 60% of the code for Vista…”
That sir, is a bold faced lie!
Actually it was only 59% and Heidi how about U & ME discuss your future in my harem?
I’ll just have to find a bag big enough to fit over your large ugly face!
“A few weeks ago, I spotted the celebrity CEO walking alone in his quiet Palo Alto neighborhood. It was early on a Thursday afternoon. What change was Jobs pondering?
Most likely wondering who he could hire on the sly to bulldoze his ramshackle “historic” nightmare house from hell.
And thanks for the tip how I can nail Apple really good.
Selling short anyone?
Here is a link to my webpage, enjoy!
http://talkitup.typepad.com/weblog/2006/02/sad_day.html
Sputnik, sorry, I’ve already got two live-in girlfriends and we have no need for your needledic….
Hey Heidi, with three girls living under the same roof, how do you, um, find time to, um, you know pleasure yourself or do you all just get together for a threesome?
Do you like the feeling of smooth girls skin on yours or do you like the roughness of a man’s beard down there?
Inquiring minds would like to know.
xxxooo
Sputnik you’re a raging perv.
I’ll take Holly and Heather anyday.
Holly, Heather and Heidi, OH MY!
Now for my final question, how many times and how many sessions per week would you say is your average need for satisfaction?
Is it the same for the others?
What is your favorite, um you know, position?
Example: three releases twice a week, mostly missionary.
Longhorn was stillborn and the remains were mercifully cremated and buried in an unmarked grave. Vista remains in a coma and on a ventilator with the prognosis of years of therapy following removal of a large tumor representing 60% of malignant Microsoft code.
OS X keeps cruisin’ along.
Longhorn was stillborn and the remains were mercifully cremated and buried in an unmarked grave. Vista remains in a coma and on a ventilator with the prognosis of years of therapy following removal of a large tumor representing 60% of malignant Microsoft code.
OS X keeps cruisin’ along.
Oh god what a typical brainwashed fanboi response.
Cut back on the koolaid will you?
Sputnik, your puny mind could never begin to imagine how much fun we have together EVERY day!
Enjoy your Windows box!
Sputnik, your puny mind could never begin to imagine how much fun we have together EVERY day!
Everyday? Cool, oh yes I can imagine.
Lets see:
1) Threesome showers
2) Threesome oil wrestling
3) Two on one S&M, water bondage.
4) Two on one whipping and caning.
5) Twosome competitive elecro pubic shock contests
Oh trust me I can imagine… <evil>
Now isn’t talking about computers so stupid?
Computers are just a means to a end,
a end to get pr0n,
and no OS does better than Mac OS X.
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I concede your awkward, nonsensical, and embarrassing attempts for clever repartee. Unfortunately, Sputnik, persistence is no substitute for intelligence and wit.
GOT THE PICTURES!
Apple is trying to get them removed!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sphereboy/115364484/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/magsafe/
PHOTO’s purposely blurred!
CENSORSHIP!!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rheauchyr/113018477/
Sputnik, not even close.
If you pulled your head out of your bum you’d discover there is a whole world outside of the foul smelling darkness you’re living in.
MacDude, get a life.
Danish site has it
http://www.macned.nl/news.php?id=2679
Windows is slow, but why? NY TIMES
I concede your awkward, nonsensical, and embarrassing attempts for clever repartee. Unfortunately, Sputnik, persistence is no substitute for intelligence and wit.
Oh shut up.