More Realistic "Jobs in Heaven" Cartoon

Buddhist son of a Sunni is a capitalist hero. Go figure. See last panel. 

Labor Day Digression: Google Mapping an Airplane

A Friday digression for your amusement. An airplane caught by Google Maps (via Carl Anderson). 

Will Apple Inc. Abandon Logic Pro, Mainstage and Aperture?

It's a question for which only Steve Jobs knows the answer: Following Apple's apparent abandonment of video production professionals with the down-scaling of Final Cut Pro X, will Apple's other professional software -- Logic Pro Studio, including Mainstage, and Aperture -- be next?

Apple Orphans Galleries, File Sharing,

Apple Inc. has finally acknowledged the range of online services it is discontinuing with the move to iCloud.

Email's Inventor Remembered

A series by Errol Morris, who writes blog entries in Opinionator about photography, describes how his brother Noel invented email back around 1961, something Morris didn't discover until recently when he talked to Tom Van Vleck, a co-worker at MIT. He also created an instant messaging system

Apple Loses, Pays Up to Nokia

Remember, Steve Jobs' and Apple Inc.'s indignant declarations about Nokia Corporation copying their iPhone? 

Not so much. 

The mutual law suits have been settled with Apple paying to license Nokia's technology, since Nokia developed a good portion of the basic, underlying technology behind digital, mobile telephony. So, Nokia will get a vigorish on every iPhone sold. 

Dreyfuss Reads Apple License -- Aloud

Pre-weekend chuckle. CNET had actor Richard Dreyfus provide dramatic readings of sections of the Apple Inc. End User Licensing Agreement AKA EULA in voices of various characters. 

Apple's iCloud-from-MobileMe Bait and Switch

Here's one of hundreds of posts from Apple's support threads that details Apple's treatment of MobileMe customers. This addresses one problem, charging customers to renew a now, free service.

The other issues is complete lack of communications about whether other services will be cancelled including: Web hosting, iDisk file sharing, Galleries for video and photo sharing, BackUp, and browser access. 

Update: Within ten minutes Apple deleted this entry from its support threads. 

Apple Users' Letter to Steve Jobs About iCloud

I pulled this from the Apple support discussions, an elegant explanation of some, only some, of the frustrations long-term Apple customers have with the iCloud announcement. Short version: iCloud is a trendy embrace of millennials' faddish obsession with social networking, but appears to abandon people that do real work with Apple products, and don't want to have to replace every device they paid for.

Apple iCloud Orphans and MobileMe "Extensions"

Reading the second-day coverage of Apple Inc's iCloud announcements hasn't helped clarify things much.