If you want to boil down Apple’s thought process on this whole thing, it’s really about feelings. Apple cares how its users feel when using its products. When a PC user who has purchased an iPhone or iPad falls in love with the experience of using it, Apple cares about making them feel the same way about the Mac. It would be stupid if it didn’t try to make the millions of people who have purchased iOS devices feel welcome on the Mac.

That’s not the same, however, as crassly transforming one operating system into another to cash in or exert more control. The ’10 ways that OS X is being turned into iOS’ headline is easy to write, and you can’t argue with the fact that both platforms are informing decisions made in the other, but there is a distinct difference between unification and absorption.

I agree, it's not about making OSX into iOS. However, I am 100% sure that within a few years the base will be the same and we'll only talk about one OS (probably not named "X" or "iOS"). Why keep two different branches when so much is unified, it's much easier to maintain a single base than two. But OSX will not become iOS, and neither will iOS become OSX. Both will merge into one single multi-platform OS.

• Piracy is a readily-fixable customer experience problem.
• Piracy happens because you’re fucking people (notably, via pricing).
• Piracy is your fault.

COMMANDMENTS

1. Work on one thing at a time until finished.
2. Start no more new books, add no more new material to "Black Spring."
3. Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
4. Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!
5. When you can't create you can work.
6. Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.
7. Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.
8. Don't be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only.
9. Discard the Program when you feel like it—but go back to it next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude.
10. Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
11. Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema, all these come afterwards.

Simple, elegant and rather visual explanation on how a rocket works :-)

Price is rarely the most important thing. A cheap product might sell some units. Somebody gets it home and they feel great when they pay the money, but then they get it home and use it and the joy is gone. The joy is gone every day that they use it until they aren't using it anymore. You don't keep remembering "I got a good deal!" because you hate it!

There you go. Ironically, most Android tablets aren't cheap. You hate it because it is a shitty product, but you hate it even more because you got ripped off.

Each task is limited to being a simple string of 28 characters (with no date or time parameters), so there wouldn't be an easy way to integrate the information provided by Calendar or Reminders syncing anyway. As such, the app's not going to be all that effective for power users. Still, I could see Clear being useful for people without a lot on their plate, and at $0.99 it's worth checking out for the UI innovations alone.

True, even though it is limited in functionality, it's a very nice app for those "things to do today" lists.

The SCAR Project is a series of large-scale portraits of young breast cancer survivors shot by fashion photographer David Jay. Primarily an awareness raising campaign, The SCAR Project puts a raw, unflinching face on early onset breast cancer while paying tribute to the courage and spirit of so many brave young women.

gotta try this!

This is going to be hilariously awesome!