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By: Harry McCracken

Harry McCracken — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:26:02 +0000

I used to be the editor of PC World–no more! We met with Apple many times, but not with Steve himself.

For the record, I think I first saw Steve demo a product about 1980 or so (it would have been an Apple II variant at the Boston Computer Society). I vividly remember the Boston Computer Society’s east coast premiere of the Apple Lisa, and its east coast premiere of the NeXT–gak, was that more than two decades ago?–is still the most memorable Stevenote I’ve been to. Over the past few years, I’ve been to most Stevenotes (I did, however, miss the original iPhone debut).

All of which is a roundabout way of getting to my point: If I’ve ever exchanged words with Steve before today, I’ve forgotten about it. So I was neither surprised nor displeased to hear him call me “blue shirt.”

–Harry

All of eh

By: thehumanyawn

thehumanyawn — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:10:25 +0000

PC World, not Macworld

By: KenC

KenC — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:00:14 +0000

Steve called you the guy in the “blue shirt”?!? I thought you were an editor-in-chief of Macworld? How does he not know your name? Or is that some other guy in a “blue shirt” that I”m thinking of?

By: mathiastck

mathiastck — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:46:52 +0000

It would rock if your Mac could run Iphone app’s out of the box. Admittedly the motion sensing would be tricky, I don’t think you’d want to have to tilt your mac, go ahead and just let that functionality fail.

I’m picturing either a Mac who’s touchpad is a slightly larger the the Iphone’s screen, (to accommodate running apps designed for both portrait and landscape mode), or just a mac with a large touchscreen.

By: patrickfelstead

patrickfelstead — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:30:27 +0000

Wow thanks Harry, I wasn’t expecting this when I posted that question yesterday from my office in Adelaide Australia, the internet amazes me sometimes!

I hope Apple keep prototyping touch technology and develop something special for desktop and notebooks that’s as intuitive to use as the iPhone.