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by Rogelio Gudino

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Suits are clown clothes. I hope Zuckerberg doesn’t give in. ‘Immaturity’ (using their words) is what drives the technology industry, why change to wear clothes bozos wear.

People started talking about iTunes this week, saying it’s a mess specially when it comes to device syncing. I think it’s true, but I also think Apple shouldn’t and isn’t worrying about it much.

I bet less and less people are using iTunes to manage their iOS devices, more and more iCloud. Steve Jobs even said that the PC is not the media hub anymore, iCloud is. Isn’t it obvious that iCloud is Apple’s new strategy?

Great article about being barbaric vs reasonable inside a product company, but I think it applies well in other aspects of life. First great quote:

Reasonable people are often scared by the new.

The thing is that the new eventually takes over. But there needs to be balance:

A healthy product company is, confusingly, one at odds with itself. There is a healthy part which is attempting to normalize and to create predictability, and there needs to be another part that is tasked with building something new that is going to disrupt and eventually destroy that normality.

Failure to create some form of predictability will result in chaos. Failure to create some sort of well-maintained Barbaric chaos inside the company guarantees that a fast-moving, ambitious, risk-taking and ruthless someone else - someone outside the company will invade, because they know what you forgot: hacking is important.

Basically, if a given software package or service isn’t free/open, it should be as easy as humanly possible to try it, pay for it, and start using it in production.

And I think this doesn’t only apply to software, but movies and music also, otherwise people will just end up pirating your product.

Don’t miss the list of don’ts, spot on.

No one wants commercials.

Nice little story about an Apple store without electricity.

You retain complete rights of the content. Only restriction is to sell the .ibook file through the iBookstore and if you distribute it somewhere else it has to be free. Duh.

Best take I’ve read on all this iBA debacle.

David from 37signals:

No other company has inspired me more when it comes to marketing, design, focus, and even capitalism than Apple. Make the best damn product out there, charge a profitable price, and win the world.