It turned out that getting fired by Apple was the best thing that
could ever have happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was
replaced by the lightness of being a beginner, less sure about
everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my
life.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. 
I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved
what I did.  Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,
and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is
great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Don’t settle [for less]. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know
when you find it.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it
living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living
with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of
other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important,
have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They some how
already know what you truly want. Everything else is secondary.

On
the back cover of the final issue [of The Whole Earth Catalog] was a
photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find
yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the
words: ‘Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.’. It was their farewell message as
they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished
that for myself. And now, as you graduate, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

(via Tom Peters)

We spent some time in our family talking about what’s the trade-off we want to make. We spent about two weeks talking about this. Every night at the dinner table” – imagine dinner-table conversation about washing machines every night! – “we’d get around to that old washer-dryer discussion. And the talk was about design.” In the end, they opted for European machines, which Steve described as “too expensive, but that’s just because nobody buys them in this country.

Ein Auszug aus der unautorisierten Biographie iCon.

Unternehmen sollten noch zuwarten bevor sie auf das neue System updaten.

Wie es scheint gibt es eine Wiederauflage des Vergleichs von 1991. Apple Computers Inc. zahlte damals an Apple Corp. 26,5 Mio US$. Gerüchte besagen, dass der diesmalige Vergleich eine umwerfend hohe Summe ausmachen soll. Damals wurde festgelegt, dass Apple die Marke nicht für Anwendungen “whose principle content is music.” benutzen darf.

Und Industrial Technology & Witchcraft schreibt dazu:

Eine wilde Spekulation gehört natürlich auch dazu: Apple Corps wird Hauptaktionär bei Apple Inc. und Paul McCartney kommt in den Apple-Aufsichtsrat. Wenn er dann auch die Musik während der Keynotes übernimmt – warum nicht…?

Na wenn das nicht spannend klingt.

Wenn Paul McCartney im Aufsichtsrat sitzt, dann kauf’ ich mir einen Mac! – Aber nur dann, hehe.