Interesting art:

Hampton Calin tweeted:

Steve Jobs is my personal hero, who is yours?

Steve Jobs on design:

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs, The New York Times, 2003

So that Dan Lyons doesn’t feel left out, I found this piece where someone else (Jim Goldman, Tech Check) has found his anti-Apple rants sucky:

As I read Dan Lyons’ Newsweek tome this week about the evolving Big Bad Apple and how it is becoming a Microsoft [MSFT 21.50 0.62 (+2.97%) ] monopolist in training, it struck me as odd. And bordering on unfair.

Full disclosure: I loved Fake Steve. But there’s something in Lyons’ real voice as an Apple wag that just rings hollow.

Read Jim Goldman’s whole piece, it beautifully shows how Lyons’ journalism vis a vis Apple is just horrid. Still bitter about giving up FSJ too early, I ’spose. Ryan Block also agrees that although he believes that Jobs is the cunning monolopist that Lyons has posited, Lyons’ argument are still teh suckage.

Why Apple has the respect it has:

More than the contents if you are a devotee of Apple. Apple fans are well acquainted with the company’s design philosophy which extends to not just the products themselves–the iPhone, the MacBook, or even the connecting wires such as the MagSafe power adapters–but to the product containers themselves.

Apple Store customer service:

Reports of exceptional customer service from the Apple store are not rare, they’re just less interesting to report than iPhone developers having their apps rejected for inclusion in the App Store. These stories may be less interesting, but certainly not unheard of. Apple rules. Tell a friend.

Here is a classic comment from one of his Apple hit-pieces:

Did Dear Leader refuse your date invitation Lyons? You have been acting like a spurned lover ever since?

I heard he might actually look healthy to you. Whatever shall you do? But I have faith in you. You will find something worthy of ValleyWag. By the way, I hear they’re hiring. Better keep your ‘options’ open.

I am glad I am not the only one who suspects a case of spurned man-love.

From the MacBigot who I still like even though he is too snooty to follow me on twitter:

I think, if Steve does the keynote, and other black-shirted cultists like this from among Apple’s ranks continue to do the how-to videos, the company just might get a lot more people to drink the Kool-Aid. Seems to travel better than the sometimes-believable ‘real people’ who did the Switch commercials. And how-to’s not only serve as commercials for the product(s); but also might reduce some measure of first-time-user fumbling and dumb questions to AppleCare and the local Genius.

Have you wanted the start-up sound file? Here you go.

Former Mac hater reflects on his past six months with a real computer.

I suddenly found myself using my Macs exclusively. I wasn’t even firing up the Windows XP instance because I only needed it for Visual Studio. The Windows XP gaming rig was powered down and resting in the corner, serving mostly as a device to crack my knee on if I swiveled my chair too quickly. Fortunately I was able to find a buyer for it, leaving me without any native Windows hardware (well, my wife and son are still using XP).

At Macenstein, they feature the celebrity morphing piece entitled Bill Jobs.

Besides the obvious “eww” and disturbance factor, I watched it multiple times to see the differences in the two men and was struck by the difference in their eyes. Jobs definitely shows his dark side through his eyes.