“spending by Apple and Google on patent (issues) exceeded spending on research and development”
- _Charles Duhigg & Steve Lohr, New York Times_ http://mykl.us/QT49Rd
Let’s take what could be the single biggest transformational change in peer messaging on the Internet and dismantle its value, bit by bit, over the next 5 years and see if anyone notices before we’re dead.
If you want to make great products… be both a user and a developer.
“How many great ideas for socially-aware apps or services haven’t been built because there’s no common, open infrastructure to build them on?”
“everyone is focusing on The Pledge and The Prestige, but Apple is the only one focusing on The Turn.”

this day in history:
the tank makes its debut in warfare* at the Battle of the Somme, during WWI.
September 15, 1916 - 96 years ago today.
(* rendering the Maginot Line an outdated strategy, years before it was even built.) http://mykl.us/U4xkD4
“doggedly pursue, year after year, iteration after iteration, a vision unlike that of any other company — all in the name of making customers happy.”
We don’t need to spend so much money on bullets, guns, tanks and battleships. They’re this generation’s Maginot Line.