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> “Your playing is the best argument I’ve ever heard for the existence of God, because I don’t really believe a human alone can do this.” Which is kind of an insult to Yo Yo Ma.
As a musician, I would view that as the ultimate compliment.
No mention of the iPad or OS X.
If you had to boil Steve Jobs's biggest contributions down to a minimum, it's: * the first genuinely usable, affordable GUI (i.e. the Mac) * the iPod * the iPhone I'd say the Apple ][ is debatably on that list (the first personal computer than "just worked" or something). NeXTStep is a wonderful OS with a lot of Good Stuff in it but it's a piece of a product. The iPod Touch and iPhone are fairly obvious evolutions of…
To my mind, that is the product that really touched off the personal computer revolution. As you mention, the Mac paradigm shift was about the GUI, Mouse, and taking what they started with the I and ][ to the next, more refined and "product-ized" level.
Anything to detract from the disaster that is Apple Maps. If I could I would undo two things, first revert to iOS5, then bring Jobs back. Ah, the good old days.
Music by Yo-Yo Ma I think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZn_VBgkPNY
Something to think different about.
If you reset safari you get the video. Interesting
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Yes; it's Bach's Cello Suite #1. You've probably also heard it in Master and Commander, where it was performed by Yo-yo Ma. It's one of my favorite pieces of string music.
The piece is the prelude of Bach's first cello suite. The thirty-five other movements in the Bach cello suites are equally beautiful, but it is mainly this movement that is played. While my cello playing was originally inspired by Ma's interpretation of the cello suites, I now find his rendition of them a bit insipid. I suggest checking out Pablo Casals' interpretation - he popularized the Bach suites, and the record…
Page miserably fails to load on Chrome running on Ubuntu http://imgur.com/eWREY
Removing their products from the landing page to pay tribute to Steve. Would Dell or Samsung do this? Genuine question.