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Wired: Apple is Evil/Genius

Wired Magazine's Leander Kahney has a cover story on Apple ("How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong" Issue 16.04 ) that's worth a read. Overall it's pretty well balanced and fair and has just enough edgy snarkiness to keep you reading. Kahney takes Apple to...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Inc., Wired Inc., Recruitment & Selection, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Human Resources, Kahney, Operating Systems, Software, Wired Magazine, Workforce Management

Blog posts 2008-03-25

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Are Steve Jobs' management skills a corporate risk?

We all know that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is a revered figure in the consumer electronics industry for pushing the envelope and getting filthy rich doing it. But does the magic of Apple product success hide a poor business manager? ...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., CEO, Bill Taylor, O'Grady, Consumer Electronics, Leadership, Personal Technology, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-07

Hacker claims to have phished Steve Jobs Amazon account

Cult of Mac's Leander Kahney was approached by a hacker looking to sell access to Steve Jobs' personal Amazon account "with all his purchase/interest details for 6-7 years." The hacker going by the handle "orin0co" claims to have phished the Apple CEO in a new...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Hacker, Attack, Hacking, Security, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-05-14

Would you buy an all-screen notebook computer?

People love to complain about the virtual keyboard found on the iPhone and iPod touch myself included but in reality it's quite good after the requisite learning period. It still needs haptic feedback but that's a topic for another blog post.If you're ok with a virtual,...

Tags: Brick, Notebook Computer, Apple iPod Touch, Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Keyboards, Notebooks, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Is Apple good or evil?

There has been a lot of talk lately about how is Apple becoming more like Microsoft and turning evil, but is it really the case? Personally I've known that Apple was evil since they tried to litigate me out of business and subpoena three years worth of my email, but...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Inc., Public Relations, Digital Music, Web Browsers, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Corporate Communications, Internet, Marketing, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-03-27

Wired: Apple is Evil/Genius

Wired: Apple is Evil/GeniusApple is doing EXACTLY what MS got in trouble forWhat makes this whole situation twice as delicious is that some of the Apple apologists are actually using this as an [b]apology!!![/b][i]But MS did this with IE and Office and Windows so it is okay for Apple to...

Tags: Web browsers, Digital music, Digital media, Wired Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-03-25

Kahney: "Safari sucks"

Kahney: "Safari sucks"RE: Don't use itI disagree. While Safari isn't the be-all-end-all browser out there, it's no where near as bad as it's been made out to be. Leander Kahney saying it "buggy," "unreliable" and "crashes all the time"? Sorry, but maybe Cult-of-Mac needs to clean his Mac. Yes, Safari...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Digital music, Digital media, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Web browser

Discussion threads 2007-06-13

Kahney: "Safari sucks"

This morning I wondered if I'd been a little harsh on Apple's latest attempt to "Wow!" Windows users over to Mac.  After all, Safari is just in beta and we should all be kind to projects in beta.  But when I discovered that Leander Kahney of the Cult of Macintosh had...

Tags: Apple

Blog posts 2007-06-13

Is Jobs planning a hostile takeover of the Windows desktop?

Let’s just get this out of the way right at the start: Steve Jobs is a genius and rarely makes stupid decisions. If you accept that statement as gospel, then you have to assume that Jobs has a brilliant master plan behind yesterday’s announcement that Apple’s Safari browser would be...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-06-12

Asteroid, a plant?

In a column for Wired.com Leander Kahney writes about the possibility that Apple creates false products to test the loyalty of their employees. The practice, sometimes called a "canary trap" involves seeding small groups of employees false information about a non-existent product to see who "sings." For his story Leander...

Tags: Legal, Rumor

Blog posts 2007-03-08

Apple takes back the copycat title

Apparently, every copy of Mac OS X comes with a Cognitive Dissonance add-in. This feature allows Mac cultists to loudly accuse Microsoft of ripping off features when it's convenient, and to blindly miss the ripoffs that go the other way.Case in point: Yesterday's far-from-earthshattering Apple announcements.Over at the Cult of...

Tags: iTV, Media Center PC

Blog posts 2006-09-13

Explaining the 'Cult of Mac'

Author discusses the extremities of Mac-faithful behavior'The Cult of Mac' author Leander Kahney joins CNET News.com's Amanda Termen to discuss the emergence of the infamous "Mac faithful" and the lengths so-called Macheads have gone to in order to protect the name of Apple Computer.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Cult

Videos 2006-03-30