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Susan Kare: The Original Apple iOS Icon Designer + Book

New limited book of icon designs by San Francisco based designer Susan Kare – the original Apple OS icon / UX designer. She is also recently featured in the latest issue (December 2011) of Wired magazine for the Steve Jobs tribute, as well as this write up of her work, career and use of graph [...]

R.I.P. Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs 1955-2011 Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor.Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit [...]

Apple has more money that the U.S. Government.

Scary, all this S&P rating business. Full article here. (CNN) — Maybe the cash-strapped U.S. government should start selling iPads. According to the latest statement from the U.S. Treasury, the government had an operating cash balance Wednesday of $73.8 billion. That’s still a lot of money, but it’s less than what Steve Jobs has lying [...]

What I Want for Christmas

The David Cronenberg Existenz iPhone charger.

Apple Design Staff Smoking Crack. How to correct iTunes 10 side close buttons.

So what is up with Apple? It seems their designers are out smoking crack at lunch or Steven is busy daggering in the parking lot. For some reason, they’ve decided to put the new iTunes 10 close / minimize / maximize buttons sittin’ sideways, which makes me say ROFL, OMFG, WTF?. Not understanding the thought [...]

Sony and Nintendo set their sites on the enemy named Apple

Sony releases a new TV spot taking aim at the iPhone limitations as a gaming platform, and Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aime declares Apple as the “enemy of the future.” Hey, healthy competition will probably bring us all better end products on the consumer level, right?

Android Gaining Traction in the U.S.

Great analysis of the current cell phone marketplace by Gizmodo. The market research firm iSuppli just put out the most damning numbers: In terms of global smart phone market share, iPhones will peak at 15.9 percent in 2012, then fall to 15.3 percent two years later. Android will snatch 19.4 percent in two years, and [...]