“Mac OS X has been leading a secret double life.”
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, on his company’s flirtations with Intel behind IBM’s back, PCWorld.com, 6 June 2005
Author: Alex
Alex works as a reverse engineer for Automattic Inc.
STOP, COLLABORATE, AND LISTEN
“Podcasting is the largest self-service anthropology project under way.”
Filmmaker Jason Scott, on wasting 340 gigabytes of perfectly good hard drive space on an archive of people too stupid to figure out how to type their thoughts, Wired News, 2 June 2005
SUING OUR CUSTOMERS IS SO OVER; NOW WE’RE JUST GOING TO PISS THEM OFF
“The casual piracy, the schoolyard piracy, is a huge issue for us.”
Sony BMG executive Thomas Hesse, on the music company’s new plan to install digital rights management on its CDs, News.com, 31 May 2005
ANY COLOR YOU WANT, AS LONG AS IT’S PROPRIETARY
“At Sony, we believe what customers really want is choice.”
Sony executive Ellen Glassman, on the design philosophy that produced an MP3 player that didn’t even play MP3s, Fast Company, June 2005
ON THE OTHER HAND, HE’S LIBERAL WITH THE PAIN PILLS
“Buying security software from Microsoft is like buying medication from a doctor who has been successfully sued for malpractice.”
Yankee Group analyst Jim Slaby, on the reason why Microsoft sells so little software, InformationWeek, 30 May 2005
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