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ryanhatesthis:

Dang, that’s pretty dead-on, at least looks wise.

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.” — Steve Jobs

Today marks the one year anniversary of Jobs’ death. See our collection of the best Steve Jobs quotes. 

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laughingsquid:

Steve Jobs’ 2011 New Year’s Resolutions Found on Starbucks Napkin

Hey Zuck - is your server running? Better go catch it!

Steve Jobs Bobble-Head Doll: Teeny, Realistic…Magical? Available for $80. [via Mashable]

Huffington Post readers have chosen STEVE JOBS as the Ultimate Game Changer In Technology.

Steve Jobs’s alleged business card, circa 1979.

At Apple’s earnings call yesterday, Steve Jobs went on what can best be described as an anti-Google rant, attacking the Android Platform. We’ve got a clever infographic featuring highlights from the rant via TechCrunch (above), as well as longer excerpts via Seeking Alpha’s transcript (below):

Google loves to characterize Android as open, and iOS and iPhone as closed. We find this a bit disingenuous and clouding the real difference between our two approaches. The first thing most of us think about when we hear the work open is Windows which is available on a variety of devices. Unlike Windows, however, where most pc’s have the same user interface and run the same app, Android is very fragmented. Many Android OEMs, including the two largest, HTC and Motorola install proprietary user interfaces to differentiate themselves from the commodity Android experience. The users will have to figure it all out. Compare this with iPhone, where every handset works the same.

He continued:

Even if Google were right, and the real issue is closed versus open, it is worthwhile to remember that open systems don’t always win. […] In reality, we think the open versus closed argument is just a smokescreen to try and hide the real issue, which is, what’s best for the customer, fragmented versus integrated. We think Android is very, very fragmented and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple’s strives for the integrated model so that the user isn’t forced to be the systems integrator.

RIM, the maker of the BlackBerry, didn’t escape Jobs’ tirade:

We’ve now passed RIM, and I don’t seem them catching up with us in the foreseeable future. They must move beyond their area of strength and comfort into the unfamiliar territory of trying to become a software platform company. I think it’s going to be a challenge for them to create a competitive platform and to convince developers to create apps for yet a third software platform after iOS and Android. With 300,000 apps on Apple’s App Store, RIM has a high mountain ahead of them to climb.

Jobs also expressed doubt that the tablets that are coming to market will be able to rival the iPad:

[W]e think the current crop of seven-inch tablets are going to be DOA, Dead on Arrival. Their manufacturers will learn the painful lesson that their tablets are too small and increase the size next year, thereby abandoning both customers and developers who jumped on the seven-inch bandwagon with an orphan product. Sounds like lots of fun ahead.

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nbclocal:

The lead image/headline for a Bay Area story about unemployment.

I laughed.