“When you combine state and federal, Apple is paying approximately $1 million an hour in just domestic income taxes.”
— Tim Cook as quoted in The Washington Post
“If the history of Apple’s iPhone were accurately captured in a film, audiences would likely find the story completely unbelievable and simply walk out of the theater.”
— Daniel Eran Dilger in an editorial on Apple’s Ax SoC move from Samsung to TSMC
“Spending money on great apps means not only do you get great apps now, but you’re also essentially investing in great apps later. Let’s fix the App Store economy, and let’s start by paying for apps without shuddering at $4 price tags.”
— Lex Friedman on why Customers need to help fix the App Store economy
“The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment. […] But perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same, so we must celebrate the changes, because, as someone once said, everything will be all right in the end, and if it’s not all right, then trust me, it’s not yet the end.”
— Evelyn Greenslade, character in the movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011).
“Apple’s customers appreciate quality, reliability, and usability in a seamlessly integrated ecosystem, and are willing to pay for it.”
— Kate MacKenzie in When It Comes To iPhone And iPad There Are Two Customer Groups Apple Doesn’t Want Or Need
“For some reason, pundits never tire of reviewing things they’ve never seen. They did it with the iPhones, they did it with the iPad, and now they’re doing it with the mythical iWatch. Just because they lack imagination and vision, however, doesn’t mean Apple does.”
— The Macalope in Pre-panned for your convenience
“Where others offer choices, Apple makes decisions. What some of us appreciate is what so rankles the others — that those decisions have so often and consistently been right.”
— John Gruber, in Open and Shut
“The behaviors required to delight the consumer are simply at odds with the behaviors required to delight businesses. You cannot do both simultaneously in a single organization and be excellent.”
— Charlie Kindel on Why Nobody Can Copy Apple
“Everyone wants an Argentina, a place where the slate is wiped clean. But the truth is Argentina, is just Argentina. No matter where we go we take ourselves and our damage, with us. So is home the place we run to, or is it the place we run from? Only to hide out in place where we’re accepted, unconditionally, places that feel more like home to us. Because we can finally be who we are…”
— Dexter Morgan, character in Dexter (Season 7, Episode 8)
“I believe the only cure for discouragement is dissatisfaction. That it is a key ingredient, perhaps the key ingredient, to success. That only once one is sufficiently dissatisfied will they be able to make real noticeable change — either in themselves or in society as a whole.”
— Patrick Rhone on discouragement vs. dissatisfaction
