Linked List: March 29, 2013

Friday, 29 March 2013

David Gelphman, on an email he got from Steve Jobs while he worked at Apple.

‘I Don’t Use a Ring of Any Kind on My Phone. This Is So That I Am Always on Offense and Never Defense.’ ★

Path CEO Dave Morin: huge douchebag.

John Sherrod, on Facebook’s “Home on Android” event next week:

If that’s true, the most fascinating thing to me about this invitation is that it mentions Android at all. Lately the trend has been for companies to develop phones and tablets based on a heavily customized version of Android and not even mention Google’s OS in their press events.

Does seem strange. Makes me wonder whether they’re announcing a major new app for Android in general, not just their own device. A new homescreen/launcher replacement, perhaps?

Facebook to Reveal ‘Home on Android’ at Press Event Next Week ★

Josh Constine, TechCrunch:

Rumors we’ve heard say that the project could actually be called “Facebook Home”, and its hallmark would be a heavily Facebook-ified mobile phone home screen. This could include Facebook news feed stories and data splayed out right on the home screen, along with easy access to Facebook apps.

A few thoughts:

I wonder if this is what Mike Matas — and the many other A-team iOS designers Facebook has hired in recent years — have been working on?
What does this mean for the Facebook integration in iOS?