Jim Lynch: Off the Top of My Head…

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Very interesting take on life inside of Apple from a former employee:
I went to work for Apple in February of 1989 for simple reasons: I loved the technology. It was a company that I felt could make a difference and improve society, and I wanted a chance to help make those changes. I think it’s [...]

I think this is a great idea. The app store is getting really crowded and it’s getting harder and harder for people to easily find quality apps.
Faced with criticism over the way it’s been grouping applications on the digital shelves of the App Store, Apple this week is making some changes to the store’s layout [...]

I’m always glad whenever Apple has some competition. Anything to light a fire under their asses is a good idea to me. And iTunes could use some serious competition. Maybe Songbird will provide that?
A multi-year effort to deliver an open-source and customizable iTunes rival came to fruition this week with the release of Songbird 1.0, [...]

Heh, heh. Priceless. Hey, give Lisa Simpson some credit. Instead of filing for bankruptcy she ended up getting a job to pay off her Mytunes music download bill.

I wonder if Apple CEO Steve Jobs saw this and found it amusing. Probably not. He’s not known to have much of a sense of humor [...]

Jim Goldman at CNBC has a bit up about the Beatles finally getting ready to go digital or whatever.
Does anybody besides aging baby boomers give a crap at this point? I’m sure the Beatles music is probably widely available on various file sharing sites so who cares if it ever makes it to iTunes? The [...]

After I got my iPhone I quickly realized that I needed a bluetooth based ear piece. It’s much easier using something like that when walking or driving. I had initially gotten the Apple bluetooth ear piece but that thing ended up totally sucking.

So, going by feedback I heard, I got a Jawbone instead. Well I [...]

Fortune has a look at an analysis (by a blogger) of Apple’s recent earnings report.
Oppenheimer and Jobs promised to provide adjusted revenue numbers — so-called non-GAAP revenue — every quarter going forward. But they didn’t provide any non-GAAP numbers from quarters past, making it difficult to gauge how fast Apple is actually growing.
That’s where Andy [...]