Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs: “So now I’ve said more than I wanted to say, and all that I am going to say, about this.”
Good news for Jobs, for Apple, and for everyone tired of the morbid speculation surrounding the Macworld keynote.
From the Daring Fireball post on Wired’s story on 37signals:
Long profile by Andrew Park in the March issue. Pretty good overall, but there’s an awful lot of ginned-up conflict. E.g. the last paragraph contains the sentence: ‘Call it arrogance or idealism, but they would rather fail than adapt,’ and suggests they’re somehow losing customers due to their emphasis on simplicity above all else.”
Doesn’t seem so “ginned-up” from here. Count me among the lost customers.
37signals have earned their success. They get an awful lot right in their apps, from lack of data lock-in to an admirable overall level of intuitiveness.
So why have I given up on them after trying to use Basecamp for nearly 3 years?
A big reason would be that “vetoing customer requests” is standard operating procedure at 37signals. Don’t take my word for it: it says so on page 62 of Getting Real:
Don’t worry about tracking and saving each request that comes in. Let your customers be your memory. If it’s really worth remembering, they’ll remind you until you can’t forget.
Or until they go away because they have better things to do.
It’s fine with me that DHH would say “fuck you” to this, but he doesn’t get to do that and have my money.
For people looking for something, um, less simple than Basecamp (on Mac OS X) take a look at OmniPlan, recently upgraded to version 1.5.
Twittering From My Newton on Flickr – Photo Sharing!: Grant Hutchinson out-geeks us all…
I really should fire up the old eMate again…
(Via John Moltz.)
Phill Ryu has posted a YouTube clip of his 2-year-old working an iPhone. That’s pretty cool. Let’s see that with a Blackberry.Maybe if the 2-year-old was running the video camera this clip wouldn’t make you feel so sea-sick…
This story (“Web site” baffles Internet terrorism trial judge”; Yahoo.com) has been making the rounds, typically accompanied by howls of laughter.
What’s so funny?
I admit, it’s difficult to grasp how anyone — especially someone presiding over a case on internet terrorism — could be so insulated from the everyday realities of modern life. But I must say I’m really quite impressed that Judge Openshaw is brave enough to admit this. Clearly, he has the courage to do what many, many people would not. Would those laughing at him prefer that he quietly sit back and pretend to understand things of which he has no experience? How could that be an improvement?
I applaud Judge Peter Openshaw.
Link.
All I can add to this, is that I’d rather they ship a solid 10.5 than a 10.5 that makes me wish I’d stuck with 10.4.
