"Ashton Kutcher has better lighting, is directly facing the camera, and appears to have a cabinet and computer on his desk."

"Steve Jobs wore a metallic watch (unlike Kutcher’s black watch), sat on a wooden table, and had an artificial apple obstructing the vi...

Skeuomorphism — mimicking real-life objects on the computer screen — may have died along with Steve Jobs.

And it seems doomed if it's viewed as cute or ornamental, but there's also the argument based on functionality . You might wonder wh...

"So why did Apple sue Samsung, the Galaxy hardware manufacturer, and not Google, maker of the phone's Android software?"

"Apple sees Google as its chief competitor—this is no secret." Steve Jobs so hated Google's Android that, even as he struggle...

"I don't think I've ever called anybody a genius, except sarcastically."

I just said, to Meade, after he misread the title of the last post as something I'd written, when it was a quote from a Wall Street Jou...

"Apple was a pioneer of an accounting technique known as the 'Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich'..."

"... which reduces taxes by routing profits through Irish subsidiaries and the Netherlands and then to the Caribbean. Today, that tacti...

"Steve Jobs, Price Fixer?"

"Government lawyers claim to know how much an e-book should sell for."

"Did 'The Woz' Slag Steve Jobs In FBI Interview?"

Asks The Smoking Gun. (But nothing quoted from the FBI file tells us anything we don't know from reading the biography "Steve Jobs....

"From his father Jobs had learned that a hallmark of passionate craftsmanship is making sure that even the aspects that will remain hidden are done beautifully."

"One of the most extreme—and telling—implementations of that philosophy came when he scrutinized the printed circuit board that would h...

"The next time Dylan played nearby, he invited Jobs to drop by his tricked-up tour bus just before the concert."

"When Dylan asked what his favorite song was, Jobs said 'One Too Many Mornings.' So Dylan sang it that night. After the concer...

Evolution of Apple Ads 1975-2002.

Fascinating. It's nice accompaniment for reading the Steve Jobs biography . One of his pet peeves was Newton, the handheld personal dig...

What emotion does your youth culture valorize and what social form does it envision?

William Deresiewicz takes inventory. For the hippies, the emotion was love: love-ins, free love, the Summer of Love, all you need is love. T...

"We spent a lot of time asking ourselves, 'What is the purpose of a sofa?'"

Malcolm Gladwell quotes Walter Isaacson quoting Laurene Powell quoting her husband Steve Jobs. Powell lived with her fabulously wealthy husb...

Steve Jobs's feet.

From the Walter Isaacson biography "Steve Jobs" : He was still convinced, against all evidence, that his vegan diets meant that he...

"Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow."

The last words of Steve Jobs, recounted by his sister, the novelist Mona Simpson, in her fine eulogy .

The mess that is "Meet the Press" had me laughing until tears ran down my face.

We watch the NBC show on DVR and pause frequently to analyze, dissect, and mock. Here 's today's transcript. They had Walter Isaacso...

"The Steve Jobs' iPod Autopsy: Apple Innovator Stuck in the '60s."

Says Spin: "His iPod selections were those of a kid from the '70s with his heart in the '60s"... In fact, loaded on his iP...

"At the root of the reality distortion was Jobs’s belief that the rules didn’t apply to him."

"He had some evidence for this; in his childhood, he had often been able to bend reality to his desires. Rebelliousness and willfulness...

"The big thing was that he really was not ready to open his body," said Steve Jobs's wife...

... attempting to explain why Jobs avoided surgery for the cancer that ultimately killed him. “It’s hard to push someone to do that.” She di...

"Until the teachers' unions were broken, there was almost no hope for education reform."

Steve Jobs told Barack Obama, when they met in the fall of 2010. Jobs proposed allowing principals to hire and fire teachers based on merit,...

"Steve Jobs would probably be alive today if he had not put off conventional medical treatment in favour of alternative remedies..."

According to Dr Ramzi Amri, of Harvard Medical School: He added that as Mr Jobs had comparatively mild neuroendocrine tumors, compared to th...