webwielder

Always important to establish credibility by getting the name of the company you're writing about wrong in the title.

Because time is a continuum.

The phrase "the rise of" is really being abused these days.

I continue to be flabbergasted that so many otherwise savvy observers believe that a random assortment of software annoyances constitutes a crisis at Apple. Articles like this could have been, and were, written at any time in the past fifteen years.

Because it implies a fully native app, which is a feature to some people.

When would you have rooted for them in the past?

Nothing beats working out to the 7 Minute Workout musical: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LezARmLDu6U

we believe, more than anything, that food is visual.

More than taste?

Perhaps even more impressive than Carmack's technical chops is his ability to stand in a single spot for hours on end.

For everyone decrying the Apple Watch, this shows what "ugly" and "pointless" truly look like.

I've never seen an Android widget that I felt justified its existence, and I'm thinking the same will be true for iOS.

Designing for variable screen resolutions in Photoshop is insane. Something like Antetype with automatic layout makes much sense: http://antetype.com

You mean "Java ran/runs poorly on Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.", right?

Both Kirk and Janeway were much less by-the-book. They had no compunction against violating the prime directive, making unscrupulous alliances, seducing young ensigns, or reading the Constitution to a planet of Nazis (or something like that) if they felt it furthered their (usually noble if misguided) goals.

At the end of the day, Apple has always delivered far superior tools, frameworks, and ecosystem (development-wise). That to me says a lot more than how friendly the staff is.

Too bad the body is often pretty lousy at honoring requests for quality sleep even when we make the time.

San Francisco is well known for its transformations, the most recent one fueled by tech money that has seemingly scrubbed much of the city clean.

Well if this is to be taken literally, it's laughable. San Francisco's thoroughfares are littered with garbage, the city smells like piss, and its public transportation is third world at best. I can't imagine what SF was like before the latest "transformation"!

I approve of the old school MacName.

Hate to be a downer, but I wasn't impressed with Star Fox even at the time as an 8 year old boy. Clearly a case where the technology had not yet caught up to the ambition.

That said, I've always been fascinated by the idea of cartridges as expansion cards. When your medium is a bulky plastic box plugging directly into the guts of the machine, you can do some crazy things.

I've always interpreted the quote as meaning that good artists are able to recognize worthy work and imitate it, while great artists take that work and make it their own, improve upon and personalize it.

The Macintosh team "stole" the GUI from PARC, insomuch as they turned an academic experiment into a user-friendly, commercially viable product with its own refined sensibility and personality.

Samsung was a good enough artist to recognize that the iPhone was worth copying slavishly (albeit poorly), but they never turned their imitation into a distinct work unto itself.

The Lisa UI looks clunky and ugly to modern eyes (akin to though not as bad as other early GUIs like Windows 1.0 and OS/2 Presentation Manager), while the original Macintosh still looks clean and well thought out.

Goes to show you why you shouldn't kick Steve Jobs off of your project.

all-but-stated goal

Why do you keep using that phrase? You don't get to judge a company's achievement of goals that you have ascribed to it. Or, you can, but to do so is nonsensical.

I find it kind of magical that 3D models can be ripped out of game ROMs and then manipulated like they were any old document.

As GP said, you would be hard-pressed to find someone either inside Apple or outside who would seriously make the argument that the 5C was anything other than a disappointment.

Nope, that's not what they said. What they said was:

I don't think many people inside or outside of Apple are arguing that the 5C was a disappointment sales wise.

Jobs didn't believe in coddling employees. For him, the chance to work on amazing products (or in support of those products) with amazing people was ample enough reward.

Last year, Apple for the first time introduced two new iPhones instead of just one: the high-end iPhone 5S, which sold like gangbusters, and the lower-cost, plastic-covered iPhone 5C, which disappointed.

So disappointing it was the second best selling smartphone in the US! Is it a law that every article about Apple must adhere to a certain number of press-created fictions?

Not everyone is as cynical as you. I believe the people at Apple genuinely want to make great hardware and software that enhances people's lives. Their world-class accessibility support is proof enough of that.

The Apple Desktop Mouse II is an under appreciated looker: http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-ZD603_1003mi_M_...

Great Apple mouse gallery here; http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230372260...

Maybe the lesson is that using patents as a deterrent from others using your idea is just too fraught with complications and costs. The best way to stay competitive is by relentlessly improving and effectively marketing your product.

Well, that's one reason to bring back extinct animals from hundreds of millions of years ago.