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SpamSandwich said:

I’m sure Apple will act quickly to rectify this. They’re at the forefront of accessibility, so I’ve no reason to believe they’ll drag their feet.

Absolutely. There is a lot of knee jerking as usual, but I can totally believe that Apple's website is not accessible. Image heavy sites require a lot of alternative navigation work. The best way to discover how inaccessible a website is is to sit next to a blind, or other wise web navigation impaired person as they try to get around a site. (I have done this professionally). I have no doubt that Apple will be all over this.

I also agree that Apple is a target for all sorts of groups, as is any other high profile company. An to be honest I think that is exactly as it should be. The higher your profile the greater the burden of responsibility And Apple absolutely excels at this. This is one reason that I personally rate Apple so highly beyond the fact that they make products that I love to use. Google might want to live by 'Do no Evil' but Apple's is closer to 'Do good'  

I would love a pen to use with my iPhone. Great for quick note taking in particular. A large iPhone is close to a small iPad so i don't see any negatives with this as an option. And as far as Steve hating the idea? He was a marketeer above all and he was selling the very idea of the touch screen where nothing else was needed. That still holds true but please don't hold on to anything Steve said whilst marketing a new concept. If he was around today and hated the ice personally it would not mean that it is a bad idea, just that he didn't like it. The world has changed a lot since the introduction of the iPhone.

wood1208 said:

Map Apps promise not fulfilled until that day come when I can setup my route ahead( I call it my Custom direction) on my iPhone or laptop/desktop/tablet etc and than send it to my iPhone. When I select that link and start driving, navigation should follow my custom map. If I select reverse direction than it should follow that custom map in reverse direction.

I may be misunderstanding you, but I get my route on my Mac and then send it to my iPhone all the time.

Maybe I am just not used to the Google Map way of working but I absolutely hate it and MUCH prefer Apple maps. I switch to Google if a location (a business) can't be located on Apple Maps, and I also often compare routes to see which one is best, but I navigate by Apple Maps 99% of the time. I find Google maps unwieldy and difficult.

The one thing I miss in Apple Maps is the ability to control my route better. I would like an easy way to say way points, in particular.

bestkeptsecret said:

In the end, every dead person's persona is an amalgam of the opinions and viewpoints of the people around him.

I do not need to fit all the pieces together to try to figure out who Steve was. I have no interest in that.

What fascinates me is that he has such a profound impact on the world. That is what drove me to purchase the authorised biography and the "Becoming Steve Jobs" book. That is what will drive me to buy this book as well.

I do not want to solve the enigma of Jobs. I just find reading about it endlessly fascinating.

I agree - SJ is endlessly fascinating. Complex, flawed, brilliant, high achieving people often are. We so much want to put them into categories and file them away as 'one thing', but it just can't be done.  In some ways he was head shakingly stupid  - a fruitarian, didn't wash (didn't smell he claimed), thought he could beat cancer with diet. He was also at times the most obnoxious person imaginable and was hugely vain, yet I suspect he had a big heart (at least when it came to larger issues beyond his immediate family and employees), but most of all (for us) he was a great thinker, a technological visionary and clearly he became a ceo and leader second to none. He was also flamboyant and contrarian. He was one of the 'crazy ones' in every sense of the word.  

Full exerpt on Vanity Fair. The chapter shows Lisa to be a good writer. Her story is sure to show a completely and not at all flattering side to SJ. I have never had any illusions. I may read this book because it is such a fascinating story and it deserves to be seen from this angle, too, but it will not affect me view of SJ as what I know him for. I already know he was a deeply flawed man, and I am sure this will just deepen that understanding. But on the other hand - had he been a lovely and caring being he would not have been Steve jobs and there would have been no Apple Mac. I am sorry he was such a prick but so I believe are an awful lot of the people I admire.