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iOS 7: It's better than it looks | Lex Friedman | Lex, Briefly and Daring Fireball: The iPhone 5S and 5C. Read both.

FORTUNE -- I'm sure Tim Cook is hugely competent, a wonderful operating executive, and a real nice guy. But as CEO of the world's most respected high-tech franchise, he has been an unmitigated disaster. Uhm, okay… I'll respectfully disagree. 😛

The Most Forward Thinking Apple Yet has the subtitle "What the 64-bit capable iOS 7 and the M7 chip really mean".

Steve came to me and he said, "I want to drop the price of the Macintosh and I want to move the advertising, shift a large portion of it away from the Apple 2 over to the Mac." I said, "Steve, it's not going to make any difference. The reason the Mac is not selling […]

Thoughts and Observations on Today's iPhone 5C and 5S Introduction: I got this one wrong. … In marketing, what looks new is new.

Apple has avoided NFC, and all the rumors about NFC getting added to iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 are turned out to be false. Instead of NFC, Apple worked on alternatives using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. During the introduction of iOS 7′s AirDrop at WWDC in June, Apple's mobile development chief Craig Federighi said, "There's no […]

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Alex King uses one of his screens as a Stickies Screen. The idea is interesting, but I'd want my Stickies to sync between computers if I was to do this, I think.

Requirements for a true Mac keyboard. Meh. Some may think I'm just not cool or discerning or whatever, but I've always been plenty happy with the keyboards Apple ships. I type as much as almost anyone I know, and even the stupid aluminum keyboard you get with the Mac Pro is fine. As are the […]

Aggarwal was impressed by the way Jobs was willing to take a risk to realize his vision. "In one meeting in the conference room with Jobs, he was annoyed that AT&T was spending too much time worrying about the risks of the deal. So he said, ‘You know what we should do to stop them […]

For years there was this running joke that Steve had changed, that he was no longer that guy who made us all uncomfortable. Then an hour or a day later he'd do something that would show he hadn't really changed at all. And yet at some point Steve did change. It was subtle but real […]

Really? It'll probably sell well, but I'll stick with black. And the bright green case I use to find my phone, because black is tough to see sometimes. 🙂

Mac Pro Trailer from Apple:

Repair Permissions won't touch any files in any of the user's home folders since Installer.app can't target user folders specifically, only any folder or a specific path, and there are no packages in ~/Library/Receipts/. The only way it'd ever touch any files in a user's folder is if you installed something that let you explicity […]

Also titled: The History of the "Boo-Dah-Ling" Sound. Neat!