Why We’ll Never Stop Talking About Steve Jobs
bq. Even when we don’t discuss Jobs directly, he is still in our conversations. If you talk about mobile anything, you’re talking about Steve Jobs. Ditto Chinese manufacturing, digital animation, user interfaces, apps, hardware design — even the stock market itself, which is now firmly dominated by Apple, the metric against which all other companies are measured. There’s not an important mainstream technology product or service out there right now that isn’t a result of or response to Steve Jobs.
Read more…iOS: A visual history
A great timeline of the iOS evolution throughout the years. Beautifully done.
Shell Apps and Silver Bullets
This pretty much sums up my thoughts on the subject. Personally I like to think of it as the “Lowest common denominator”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowest_common_denominator.
Postgres.app - the easiest way to run PostgreSQL on the Mac
The title says it all. It works nicely and saves the trouble of the “files everywhere” with the normal install method.
WWDC 2012
Last year it only took 8 hours. How many hours will it be before all the tickets go away this year? I’m guessing less than 1 hour. Let’s wait and see.