Simon Willison’s Weblog

Once people see that a pretty good phone can be a pretty good mobile computer, they won’t settle for less anymore; and mobile networks will be pried open.

— Ed Felten

# 29th June 2007, 4:58 pm / ed-felten, iphone, mobile

Mac OS X and OS X are not the same thing, although they are most certainly siblings. The days of lazily referring to "Mac OS X" as "OS X" are now over.

— John Gruber

# 12th January 2007, 10:29 am / iphone, john-gruber, apple, macos

Apple doesn't give a damn. Steve Jobs doesn't build platforms, except by accident. He doesn't care about your thriving metropolis. All you independent Mac developers: you're all sharecroppers, and your rent just went up. Way up.

— Mark Pilgrim

# 12th January 2007, 9:51 am / open-source, iphone, sharecropping, steve-jobs, apple, mark-pilgrim, macos