Son of Mac decals on Etsy

(via Cult of Mac)

From BindApple, iPod Saturation:

The company’s 17th bi-annual teen survey clearly shows that the iPod simply saturated the market for the young consumers, with 86% of them using some kind of iPod this spring, compared to 74% in the same period of 2006.

Trademark Tiffs from Apple Confidential, some interesting Apple history:

Apple’s name recognition was so low in Japan during the early 1980s that workers there used refrigerated trucks to deliver shipments of Apple computers under the mistaken assumption that the boxes contained perishable fruit.

On boingboing, Early Apple sound designer Jim Reekes corrects Sosumi myth

So, upon hearing I had to change the name of my new beep, I immediately thougth of the perfect name, “Let it Beep”. Of course, I was joking but it was brilliant right? As everyone was laughing, someone even took me seriously and said I could never get away with that! I said, “so sue me” and that’s when I realized my scheme. I told Sheila the new name would be spelled “s-o-s-u-m-i”. I asked she return the message to legal, but not to use voicemail (since she’d have to pronounce it) and instead send an email with some story about it being Japanese and not meaning anything musical. (so I don’t know what she actually told them).

And an interesting bit of trivia that I didn’t know and am going to re-watch the film just for this:

PPS: Apple took us to the opening day of Jurassic Park. I jumped in my seat when Steven Spielberg used my sound when they rebooted the park’s computers!

From ComputerWorld, Living on Air: A Windows guru spends two weeks with a Mac

For PC users, Mac OS X takes some getting used to, but once I did, I found it a more elegant, polished piece of work than Windows (either XP or Vista). With so many nice little touches, it seemed as if I was finding a new one every day.

Amen to all of that. It was a hard switch for me, but I am constantly being delighted with child-like wonder with gifts of manna from Dear Leader.

From MacDailyNews, (which is frustratingly slow to load, and I hate the stupid whole ad page that loads with it, THAT SUCKS AND I WOULD NEVER USE THE PRODUCT ADVERTISED BECAUSE THAT SUCKS SO BAD, yes I feel better now), CNBC’s Goldman: Google CEO Eric Schmidt will have to step down from Apple’s board soon

In an interesting aside with the article about Google’s pending earnings release, Goldman writes, “Google’s Android operating system which powers the G1 smart phone from T-Mobile has also been rumored to be in a trial test running new netbooks from Hewlett-Packard. That development is ripe with conflicts for Google. Not only would the news put Google in the most direct competitive stance yet with Microsoft and its Windows operating system, but it also could put Google in direct competitive position with Apple. That would be the second competitive front Google is opening against Apple, with Android already going up against the iPhone. All of this puts Google CEO Eric Schmidt in an increasingly adversarial position with Apple since he sits on the company’s board. At some point, and I think soon, Schmidt will have to step down from Apple’s board.”

And a Steveness pic I had lying around: