Linked List: October 6, 2012

Saturday, 6 October 2012

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Again I Ask: What Is It About Apple That Causes People to Lose Their Minds? ★: Glenn Fleishman:

When I started reading James Stewart’s New York Times “Common Sense” column titled “Apple’s Maps and Jobs’s Shadow”, I thought in the first two paragraphs that he had captured the nuance of Apple in transition from Steve Jobs to Tim Cook, and correctly offered the context of its last 12 months of financial success and the challenges ahead that the firm faces. Then I hit the third paragraph and it all goes downhill from there.