October 16th, 2011 // 3 Comments
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It seemed more than a little creepy when this company in Minnesota jumped all over the news of Steve’s death and ran a huge promotion on a black mock turtleneck and then saw its sales explode. The guy who runs St. Croix actually told a reporter that Steve Jobs was a customer — but then […]
October 14th, 2011 // 5 Comments
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My God this just keeps getting better and better. Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan.
October 13th, 2011 // 6 Comments
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October 12th, 2011 // 7 Comments
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The latest edition of the Double D Guys podcast has arrived, and it is titled Fake Steve Jobs Remembers Steve Jobs. It’s also available on iTunes, as always. This one takes a somber tone. We recorded it last Friday, less than two days after the news broke. I did most of the talking, and explained […]
October 12th, 2011 // 4 Comments
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He tells Rolling Stone: This dude, my friend, and I’m proud to say, my colleague – he changed music, he changed film, he changed the personal computer. It’s a wonderful encouragement to people who want to think differently, that’s where artists connect with him. … That anarchic West Coast “fuck off” attitude actually rules the […]
October 11th, 2011 // 8 Comments
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Last week in the course of reporting articles for Newsweek about the death of Steve Jobs, I spent some time on the phone with Randy Wigginton, who was one of the first employees at Apple. Wigginton started working at Apple when he was a 14-year-old high school kid. He had met Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak […]
October 11th, 2011 // 103 Comments
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Last week, in the course of reporting articles for Newsweek on the death of Steve Jobs, I spent two hours on the phone with Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder. Woz reminisced about his friendship with 16-year-old Steve Jobs, their early days listening to Dylan bootlegs and what it was like as Apple took off. He recalled […]
October 9th, 2011 // 6 Comments
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Much love to the reader who sent in the link. Very high ick factor here. But is this really any worse than the special promotion that St. Croix is running on Steve-style turtlenecks?
October 8th, 2011 // 5 Comments
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October 7th, 2011 // 5 Comments
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Yesterday there was speculation that Zuck was going to get it. But then they gave it to three women who as far as I know don’t even have a startup or even an iPhone app. I tried looking them up on CrunchBase, and guess what? They’re not even there. Just goes to show, this whole […]