My Two Cents

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↬ Gregorian Magic

1981 Marvel Calendar

You see, the way Gregorian Calendar works is that each year is 365 days - 52 weeks plus one day. Over time, that one extra day adds up, so we get a pattern where every few years, the days and dates match up. It’s usually in a repeating pattern of ever 6, then 11, then 11 again, and a repeating pattern of every 28 years for leap years - so 2015 shares the same dates with 2009, 1998, 1987, 1981, 1970, and so on.

As it turns out, the entire world knowledge has already beed written, so we can safely look back at 1981.

And thanks to Marvel we can look at a very nice 1981.

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↬ Loosing High Ground

Marco Arment writes on his blog:

Apple has always been a marketing-driven company, but there’s a balance to be struck. Marketing plays a vital role, but marketing priorities cannot come at significant expense to quality.

Probably I’m not the most qualified person to write about this topic, but since even people at CNBC had their go I’ve figured I can write my own two cents.

Apple is a massive engineering company and we can be sure they are doing things right since they are the most valuable company on this planet. It’s also true that people’s attention span is getting smaller and smaller and to get their money you really need to be in their face all the time. This is why I guess we can fell the shift from a prominent engineering approach to a more marketing-driven messaging.

Everything has to be slimmer, faster, more powerful year after year, because that’s what sell the piece of...

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