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Amazon Kindle Fire

The Kindle Fire appears to be exactly what consumers were looking for in the firesold HP Touchpads, a cheap functional tablet. But this new Amazon tablet looks to be more than that. With the all the press releases, media buzz, and behind the scenes innovation backing up this tablets release, I can’t help but cheer as another tech company has taken the Apple challenge without completely ripping them off, or falling extremely short in the consumer experience. Here’s to competition and innovation!

An anecdotal story, a friend of mine was at meetings at Apple and Microsoft on the same day and this was in the last year, so this was recently. He went into the Apple meeting (he’s a vendor for Apple) and when he went into the meeting at Apple as soon as the designers walked in the room, everyone stopped talking because the designers are the most respected people in the organization. Everyone knows the designers speak for Steve because they have direct reporting to him. It is only at Apple where design reports directly to the CEO.

Later in the day he was at Microsoft. When he went into the Microsoft meeting, everybody was talking and then the meeting starts and no designers ever walk into the room. All the technical people are sitting there trying to add their ideas of what ought to be in the design. That’s a recipe for disaster.

Microsoft hires some of the smartest people in the world. They are known for their incredibly challenging test they put people through to get hired. It’s not an issue of people being smart and talented. It’s that design at Apple is at the highest level of the organization, led by Steve personally. Design at other companies is not there. It is buried down in the bureaucracy somewhere… In bureaucracies many people have the authority to say no, not the authority to say yes. So you end up with products with compromises. This goes back to Steve’s philosophy that the most important decisions are the things you decide NOT to do, not what you decide to do. It’s the minimalist thinking again.

Having been around in the early days, I don’t see any change in Steve’s first principles — except he’s gotten better and better at it.

Former Apple CEO – John Sculley from “John Sculley On Steve Jobs, The Full Interview Transcript”

DIY Macbook Pro Laptop Stand

$50 for this? looks nice, but common!

How about making my own?
YES! i can do that…

So here it is. i’ll update this post when i get around to painting it.

*Update*
Ok, i got around to painting it… kinda gave it an aged look… to match the whole apple experience.
Ok, the last part was a joke.
*Update #2*
Ok, for the ultimate finish, thanks to a donation of two fans and a power adapter by @sr_tirado. Check it out!