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"As you know, it has the iBookstore, which joins the App Store and iTunes Store as the third store on the iPhone. We have over 150 million credit cards on file ready to purchase your apps. We think we’re number one on the web." -Steve, June 2010

150 million credit cards with one-touch purchasing.

I believe that comment was dripping with a heavy dose of sarcasm.

Funny how we preach "failing fast" in our startups, but we jump all over Microsoft for internalizing this concept.

Good for them for consolidating, but it honestly amazes me that the project even got this far.

I'm a little upset that this is called "IPhone 4". It is part of the story, in fact, a very telling part of his narrative that he merely titled it "4".

Completely agreed. The plastic felt cheap. This feels like a Rolex.

Paid? By Apple?

Or just his feed sponsorships and Deck ads?

It's been almost a year since I heard anything about RockMelt...

AVC.com should do this. His new redesign lends itself perfectly to this type of implementation.

This is not a girl's guide to geek guys. This is a guy's explorative writing on what he wishes girls would do for geek guys.

Seriously, how is it a guide to (assuming non-geeky) girls if he's candidly referring to Deanna and Bev.

At the end he mentions "[In 5 years time,] when you buy a computer, you'll get this."

I think that's about 5 years too soon on that one. Incredible demonstrations though... awesome to see science fiction become reality.

So, pretty much all of them.

I believe the area of that graph with a "North" accent is significantly too large. I can tell you that Cleveland, Ohio in no way has the typical "North" accent.

I would be inclined to take this more seriously if there wasn't an enormous distorted AMEX logo at the top of the post.

Honestly, I wasn't terribly broken up about 3.3.1. I certainly see the pros and cons, and I had kind of let it go.

But if this is the fallout, it's not worth it.

That's what I see.

Can anyone identify the drawing app he was using to demo?

Agreed. Can someone (admin / moderator) modify this to avoid double submission?

Keep in mind, he lives in Philadelphia, where it was 12:42am.

He did throw up this little Tweet a couple nights ago: http://twitter.com/gruber/status/12988151829

It bothers me that Google did not throw a publication date on this page. While it is certainly still applicable, this letter has been up for at least a few years. (I believe I found it when researching for a paper in late 2006. )

So it begins...

I deliberately have not paid for Tweetie for Mac. I love the Fusion Ads. They're incredibly useful and beautiful.

Base case.

And, Square is squareup.com.

Wow. How could they forget the AppleTV?

I don't really see what the big deal is.

I'm going to leave it enabled. I'm aware that it's public, and I'll just make sure to treat it as such. It seems unlikely that I'll publish any content other than syndicating my Twitter feed (much like LinkedIn), and all of that information is public already.

My life on the web is open to everyone, and that paradigm isn't going anywhere.

Wow, talk about moving in the wrong direction.

As if all of the flashing ads on the right weren't enough.

Clear your cookies or check it out in another browser.

They put themselves in a great position for exit all the way from the beginning. Love the slide talking about selling to Intuit to provide Quicken with an "online interface".

Dead giveaway: the dotted line around the folder name for "Apple Extras". That's some Windows UI right there.