Why iPad naysayers are dead wrong:
When the original desktop GUI was invented at Xerox Parc, computers were used for creating content. Now they are more frequently used for consuming content for which windows don’t work so well. We’ll see more single function or fewer function devices.— Cordell Ratzlaff, nine-year Apple veteran
(former head of Apple’s human interface group during the time Apple acquired NeXT and began developing Mac OS X)
From 2006 SXSW Interactive Panel “Behind the Scenes: Developing OS X and Longhorn”:
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?306 http://www.macobserver.com/article/2006/03/15.9.shtml 1 year agoChoire: What is your favorite Alex Chilton video, song or tale?
Paul: My favorite tale is from Our Band Could Be Your Life, when he shut down Gibby Haynes’s rampage through the Netherlands:
1 year agoMoments later a man entered the dressing room and asked if he could borrow a guitar. “BORROW A GUITAR??!!! WELL, WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU???!!! [Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers] screamed, eyes flashing in delirious anticpation of forthcoming violence.
But the man was totally unfazed.
“I’m Alex Chilton,” the man answered calmly.
Haynes was flabbergasted. After a long pause, he methodically opened the remaining guitar cases one by one and gestured at them as if to say, “Take anything you want.”
This would not have happened had an antithetical “Anti-Peace” Prize that they would have gone to the “President-who-shall-not-be-named”.
Or as Time Magazine calls it: “…for Not being George W. Bush”.
via Daring Fireball
