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Published by Eric Litman on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 7:37pm
I reached out to my friends on the ex-NeXT mailing list today to dig up an old gem: the default Steve Jobs welcome message in every NeXTstep users' mailbox. This was a favorite play during customer demos and is so emblazoned into my permanent memory that I (sadly) can still to this day recite it:
Hi, this is Steve Jobs, and I want to welcome you to the NeXT world. We think you're gonna love this computer. It's got the most advanced applications of any computer shipping today, AANNNDDD, it's the first computer designed from scratch to be an interpersonal computer, to extend personal computing into the realm of improving group productivity and collaboration, which we think is going to be ...
Published by Eric Litman on Monday, October 8th, 2007 3:02pm
A few months ago I bought a couple of
D-Link's DNS-323 low-end network attached storage devices as part of my ongoing mission to reduce and simplify the hardware in my home. For about $375 (
$175 for the DNS-323 and
$100 each for two 500GB hard disks) and almost no setup effort†, you can have 1/2 TB of redundant storage in a small, quiet, Gigabit Ethernet-capable server with some pretty
nifty features out of the box. And if you're a tinkerer with some Linux experience, you can draw from the thriving
hacking community supporting it. For the money, I love these little things.
But while my Windows machines communicate with them ...
Published by Eric Litman on Thursday, September 27th, 2007 4:00pm
Apple's most recent update to the iPhone's base software,
version 1.1.1, adds the same anti-hacking protections they applied to the iPod Touch. This means that at least for the near term, anyone who upgrades their iPhone to version 1.1.1 will be unable to run any of the third-party software the budding but enthusiastic iPhone developer community has created.
Since my
previous post on the missing iPhone SDK, I've spent some time exploring the undocumented APIs on the iPhone and have written a few mini applications just for the fun of delving into relatively uncharted territory†. Others have done much more than explore, and have released some ...
Published by Eric Litman on Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 12:29am
At Apple's annual developer event this week, Steve Jobs announced that there was no native SDK for the
iPhone and that developers wanting to add functionality to the device could write web applications with
limited hooks into some of the phone's native functions. Steve has cited concerns for the sanctity and stability of Cingular's network, but that's a veil for other, far more salient reasons behind this. Let's walk through some of the more interesting ones.
The Apple/Cingular deal represents a significant departure from the typical relationships found between device manufactures and mobile operators. To close their deal, both companies had to evaluate and learn ...
Published by Eric Litman on Thursday, May 31st, 2007 11:59am
The nostalgia is heady as these two guys sit side-by-side on stage in their first joint interview in over a decade.
Time and experience have visibly mellowed the both of them.
This is the second event in recent months - the first being the iPhone introduction - where Steve has gone out of his way to be magnanimous about the people within Apple, which I suspect is both an artifact of
recent experiences and setting the stage for succession.
If you have the time, the
full interview is well worth watching.
Greetings. I'm Eric Litman, I'm an Internet entrepreneur, investor and executive, and I run a mobile ad and analytics company called 
