A personal website by Khürt Williams, with inchoate ramblings on technology, photography, beer, and geekery.
It’s the 35th anniversary of the Mac, which also means it is (and I can’t really believe this) the 15th anniversary of my interview with Steve Jobs on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Mac:
Well, we’ve always been very clea...
35 years ago I was a high-school senior.
Continue Reading>No company is perfect. No product is perfect. And no matter how hard he tried, Steve Jobs wasn’t perfect, either. However, unlike any other company, Apple strives for perfection in everything it produces. Apple is climbing a new mountain with several of its products, like the updated Maps app and Siri, and it’s going to…
Continue ReadingThe dividends Steve Jobs cared about were measured in human terms. He probably wanted to be in the room telling everyone about this particular initiative last fall, but it ended up not being possible. Whatever Apple announces, I hope it lives up to my, and his, expectations. It’s funny that (at least on my end)…
Continue ReadingI firmly believe Steve Jobs was right that devices like the iPad becoming the goto device for most people. Source: On iPads and Personal Computers: A Post-PC Retrospective There's been a debate lately as to whether the iPad can fit into the so-called PC category. Following the release of several estimates and market research studies…
Continue ReadingWhen the board proposed a study that could take two months, Jobs exploded: “Are you nuts?!?” I’ve often wished that corporate America wasn’t so full of politically correct bullshit so that people (meaning me) were free to call things as they see them.