You have to be able to lose with pride and win with pride.
Trey Burke, following last night’s heartbreaking loss in the NCAA championship game.
making us all proud to be wolverines.
They’re the future for now. But nothing is the future forever.
Mark Zuckerberg to Vanity Fair’s Kurt Eichenwald, when asked if mobile phones were the future of Facebook.
It should be absolutely no surprise that Zuck was interested in Google Glass…
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And Then There Were Two...
John Gruber:
By profit share, on the other hand, according to Canaccord Genuity analyst T. Michael Walkley, last year Apple took 69 percent of the handset industry’s profits; Samsung took 34. For just the last quarter, the numbers were 72 percent for Apple, 29 for Samsung. You will note that both the annual and quarterly numbers total more than 100 percent; that is because all other handset makers, combined, are losing money. This is rather astounding — Apple and Samsung have together destroyed the rest of the mobile handset industry.
Great piece on defining “winning” and “losing” in the smartphone space. You’d think the amount of money a company makes would be a good metric since it ensures long-term viability of said company. But most of the tech press seems to feel otherwise. Because they’re bored.
What Killed Turntable.fm?
came across this gem today. good read for anyone trying to build a product with lasting power.
The ingenious team over at Oak have created Symbolset. Designed for you to rid your vector and clip art symbols, Symbolset instead moulds them straight into a single and beautiful typeface. The sleek glyphs and type result in faster loading on web pages and cleaner code.
“There’s a magical moment when typing a keyword becomes an image. Finding icons in a traditional icon font is a chore. Designers eyeball the glyphs panel, a panel not included in Photoshop, and hunt. Our keywords are human-friendly.”
[View the full article including a video of how it works over at Inspirez]
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I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.
Michael Dell, in 1997, on what he would do if he ran Apple.
Obvious reblog-bait today seeing as Dell is apparently in discussions for a buyout from private equity to take the company private, as Bloomberg reports.
Today, Apple could buy Dell about six times over — in cash.
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The 2012 Patent Rankings
For the 20th (!) year in a row, IBM was granted the most patents in 2012.
Google and Apple were both up significantly over previous years — but only came in at numbers 21 and 22 on the list, respectively. Each were granted about 5,000 (!) fewer patents than IBM for the year.
And guess who was number two on the list? The fifth horseman.
impressive!
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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