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Here’s a quote from a Steve Jobs interview from 1995: Many companies get the disease of thinking that a really great idea is 90 percent of the work. And if you just tell all these other people here’s this great idea then of course they can go off and make it happen. And the problem [...]

We all (should) know by now using Apple’s examples that it’s all about sweating the details and getting everything. just. right. This blog post and lesson by Aaron Swartz is a great reminder that details that impede your user tend to overshadow details that delight your user.   I think he hit the nail on the [...]

Much ink has been spilt in the last several weeks following the death of Steve Jobs. Most entrepreneurs, CEOs, and business leaders have come out and wrote posts talking about the things they have learned from Steve while he built one of the world’s most magical companies. I’ll spare you my extended version of the [...]

Kottke wrote How to beat Apple. The post is very well written, but here’s my favorite part. 4. I can’t remember if this is my own theory or I read about this on Daring Fireball or something, but the Apple products & services that Apple does well are the ones that Steve Jobs uses (or [...]

It’s the little things. I love this: when you forget your Apple password, you go to “iforgot.apple.com”

Warning: This might be a fanboy post, but it’s more about my fascination with an important idea that the best companies can create something out of nothing. IBM Nipple Mouse Most people will remember the first (or second) generation laptops that came out. In an effort to save some space and still provide an adequate [...]