Simon Willison’s Weblog

We declined to participate in the XHTML2 Working Group because we think XHTML2 is not an appropriate technology for the web.

— Maciej Stachowiak, Apple

# 12th April 2007, 3:08 pm / apple, xhtml2, maciejstachowiak

Please, fanboys, don't send me dumb notes averring that Apple's failure to police this use of its mark will lead to the end of its ability to stop manufacturers from producing rival MP3 players and calling them iPods. That's a fairy tale that trademark lawyers tell their kids when they want to reassure them that they'll have a healthy college fund.

— Cory Doctorow

# 12th February 2007, 2:05 pm / copyright, boingboing, corydoctorow, apple

If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store.

— Steve Jobs

# 7th February 2007, 2:26 am / steve-jobs, drm, apple

Mac OS X and OS X are not the same thing, although they are most certainly siblings. The days of lazily referring to "Mac OS X" as "OS X" are now over.

— John Gruber

# 12th January 2007, 10:29 am / iphone, osx, john-gruber, apple, macosx

Apple doesn't give a damn. Steve Jobs doesn't build platforms, except by accident. He doesn't care about your thriving metropolis. All you independent Mac developers: you're all sharecroppers, and your rent just went up. Way up.

— Mark Pilgrim

# 12th January 2007, 9:51 am / open-source, osx, iphone, sharecropping, steve-jobs, apple, mark-pilgrim

If your average iPod weighs five ounces with packaging, then Apple has moved about 21,875,000 pounds of them, equivalent in weight to 1,325 full-grown male African elephants, 35 times as many as Hannibal's force.

— Paul Ford

# 8th January 2007, 1:46 pm / ipod, hannibal, paul-ford, apple