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Who carves an Apple symbol into their head when most kids would probably prefer a mohawk? This kid. I love this story.

It surprises me that no one has talked at all about Tim Cook joining Apple’s board at the same time he’s stepping into the CEO role.  This has been speculated since Eric Schmidt vacated his seat in August 2009 (see http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125019983643730309.html).  One can only infer that this succession plan has been in place for at least [...]

Robert Scoble pens this Steve Jobs retrospective.

The big question in the interim is ‘how’s his health?’ and I’m not sure we’ll have the answer anytime before we hear any really bad news.  He will continue to drive product in his new role as chairman and employee – ain’t collecting COBRA alone.  What he has done is provided Cook with a fantastic [...]

Interesting insights on the future and Steve Jobs’s vision for it from Gasée’s Monday Note.

Computerworld offers results in the ongoing back and forth regarding Adobe Flash’s viability on mobile platforms.  In short, tests conducted using Flash on several mobile operating systems including Google’s latest (Android Froyo) show a marked battery and performance drain and even crashed at one point. No doubt Apple needs to work a little harder to [...]

Looks like Ryan Tate over at Gawker got Steve J’s attention, because Jobs’s usually five word response became a multi paragraph, multi message exchange between the Gawker writer and Apple CEO.  Keep in mind we have no way of verifying the authenticity of this exchange other than trusting Tate, but if it is in fact genuine [...]

Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs personally monitors the so-called carry list of staff members allowed to take pre-release devices off the company’s campus, according to the former employee. More: Apple Probably Will Limit Pre-Release Use of Devices.

There’s something inexplicably pitiful about a company as dominating as Microsoft being completely unable to make up its collective mind on branding. What this unexpected name change says is the company doesn’t even trust its own decision making. Microsoft lacks a collective confidence and decisive leadership that stands by things as important as marketing and branding [...]

What about that fight between Jobs and Schmidt?  One way or the other they seem to have at least patched it up enough to have coffee together. Now if we could just get them to wear something different for a change.  Sheesh.