titantiger

Wow, that's insane.  Who goes platinum in album sales anymore in that short a timeframe?

I gotta give her props on this too.  It's a really good album.

There should be a hardware switch on all Macs that literally breaks the electrical current to the camera and mic.  Software can always be overridden by hackers and malware.  But without physical access to my machine, they can't force a hardware switch to the "on" position.

riss said:

Tim Cook has hardly any right to take credit for it - he couldn’t even sell it himself during Keynote. This is a direct result of PA Semi acquisition by Apple back in 2008 that was decided by Steve. Plus he also mentioned during Intel transition keynote what OS X life expectancy was back in 2005 (22:55 into WWDC 2005). All of these pieces now came together, the only thing Cook can take credit for is balance sheet and supply chain Apple has today. Product wise this is probably last act from Steve and his ‘skating where the puck is going to be’ mindset

Almost anyone that does something great almost always has to acknowledge they stand on the shoulders of giants who came before them.  What Tim has done is learn the lessons that Steve wanted to impart to Apple so that it would last beyond him and his so-called "cult of personality."  He's stood on those shoulders and continued the legacy.  Sure, there have been hiccups and missteps.  But I think this WWDC showed that the team Steve left behind has figured out how to build on the legacy they were handed down.  You all too easily dismiss Cook's leadership through one of the most devastating losses of a company leader perhaps in history.

DDG has been my default search engine for a year or so now.  98% of the time it's all I need.  On occasion I'll try Google if I'm not finding something but it's rare.  I'll take that ratio to avoid Creepy Google.

And I agree, Apple should buy them and then work on their own web crawler.

I agree with the basic premise, and I also agree that they should purchase DuckDuckGo, and then develop their own web crawler to replace Bing.