Apple Customer Satisfaction 2009:

Steve Jobs makes The New Yorker cover, sort of

From theAppleBlog, Apple Mac OS X Window Management: Way Ahead of Windows 7:

Much is being made lately of Microsoft Windows 7 and it’s new taskbar. I’ve been running the beta myself and consider it a nice improvement over Vista. One of the improvements is in the area of window management. The new taskbar shows previews of all the open windows in an app when you hover the mouse over it, and will switch to that window if you click it.

While the above is nice, I’ve seen a few comparisons of this windows management to that of Apple’s Dock. The problem there is that OS X’s windows management is not handled by the Dock. About the only “window management” you get from the dock is that if you right-click an icon the popup menu will list open windows. Big deal.

If you want to compare Windows 7’s windows management to that of OS X, then you have to compare the new taskbar features to that of Apple’s Expose and Spaces. In this comparison, in my opinion, Windows 7 falls far short.

PCWorld gives 10 Ways Microsoft’s Retail Stores Will Differ From Apple Stores, I will go through them one at a time:

8) Xbox 360 section of the store will be organized in a ring — which will inexplicably go red occasionally.

More on the Top Ten Steve Jobs quotes:

#2. On the User Experience

Our DNA is as a consumer company — for that individual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.

From Cult of Mac, The iPod Nano Sculpture ReVisited

Woz practicing for Dancing with the Stars