∞ Luca Iaconi-Stewart Built a Boeing 777 Using Paper
Explore Luca Iaconi-Stewart’s photostream on Flickr. This user has 701 photos on Flickr.
Mind blown.
∞ Apple's 2014 Q1 Results
The Company sold 51 million iPhones, an all-time quarterly record, compared to 47.8 million in the year-ago quarter. Apple also sold 26 million iPads during the quarter, also an all-time quarterly record, compared to 22.9 million in the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 4.8 million Macs, compared to 4.1 million in the year-ago quarter.
That is:
- iPhones: 6.7% yoy
- iPads: 13.5% yoy
- Macs: 17.1% yoy
The growth kind of matches my feelings on these three products: the iPhone no longer stands out so much in the market (like, Moto X is a better phone IMO), but the iPad & Mac are still leading in their space.
∞ Mike Elgan on Google+
But for real people globally, Google+ is on fire. I’ve made friends — no, really: real friends — in Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Spain and elsewhere in the US! These are the kinds of people I could never meet on Facebook or Twitter. As someone who lives and breathes Google+ every day, it’s frustrating to see people suffer on other social networks.
Hope there will be more stories like that, it is a great product.
You Can Buy App Ratings & Reviews for $1.55/App.
I received an email from a guy saying I can buy App Ratings & Reviews a week after I released Cube Cube. I just thought it would be interesting to post some prices here.
For a free app:
- 20 iOS reviews with ratings = $59 ($2.95/app)
- 500 iOS reviews with ratings = $500 ($1.55/app)
For a $0.99 app:
- 5 iOS reviews with ratings = $69 ($13.8/app)
- 100 iOS reviews with ratings = $899 ($8.99/app)
Shocked: Distinguish Two Accounts by Passwords
You can have an Amazon US account and China account sharing the same login email. They are actually two completely different accounts and share nothing.
You know what happens when you login on a US Kindle?
- If the two accounts have the same password, you are only able to login with the US account.
- But if they have two different passwords, then you are able to login with either of them, controlled by which password you enter.
∞ On Apple Employees
Poornima Gupta and Peter Henderson wrote on August 22, 2013:
Some Silicon Valley recruiters and former Apple employees at rival companies say they are seeing more Apple resumes than ever before, especially from hardware engineers, though the depth and breadth of any brain-drain remains difficult to quantify, especially given the recent expansion in staff numbers. “I am being inundated by LinkedIn messages and emails both by people who I never imagined would leave Apple and by people who have been at Apple for a year, and who joined expecting something different than what they encountered,” said one recruiter with ties to Apple.
Like Om Malik said about Yahoo, “forget the products”. It’s the employees who decide the future of a company.
∞ Just Fucking Do It
You drive to the office dreading your day, but you drive home with a dream… “One day I’m going to build a startup. One day I’m going to finish that side-project. One day I’m going to launch that thing.”
But that one day never comes.
Why can’t you just fucking do it?
Yes, why can’t I just fucking do my side projects? > Here’s the secret: they all have partners. This made me think. Why writing about your project in early stage helps? It has the same underling reason as doing it with a partner. ♥
∞ A Tip on OmniFocus
Ben Waldie has a tip on OmniFocus:
What I really want, however, is something that will pull out recently completed tasks and summarize them in Evernote, my note management app of choice. This way, I can maintain a historical log of my progress, and pull out summaries of completed tasks to send to clients. Since this type of integration isn’t built into OmniFocus or Evernote, I wrote an AppleScript to do it.
The only thing I miss from OmniFocus is a long-lasting daily completed task view. Yes, you can create perspectives to view the completed tasks. But they will be easily deleted at some point. With this tip, I am able to leave my footprints somewhere. Long lasting. And inspiring.
∞ Do Things, Write About It
Matt Swanson wrote on August 11, 2013:
All I did was “Do things and write about it”…and you should too.
Yes, I should really start writing too.
∞ Zero Notifications
Joel Gascoigne wrote on January 07, 2013:
… should try disabling all notifications on my iPhone
Tried this strategy for a month, what did I miss because of no notifications? Nothing at all. And what did I get? One level of freedom and productivity.