See You In June Dude.

Team,

I am sure all of you saw my letter last week sharing something very personal with the Apple community. Unfortunately, the curiosity over my personal health continues to be a distraction not only for me and my family, but everyone else at Apple as well. In addition, during the past week I have learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought.

In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health, and to allow everyone at Apple to focus on delivering extraordinary products, I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June.

I have asked Tim Cook to be responsible for Apple’s day to day operations, and I know he and the rest of the executive management team will do a great job. As CEO, I plan to remain involved in major strategic decisions while I am out. Our board of directors fully supports this plan.

I look forward to seeing all of you this summer.

Steve

The actual letter as reported by NY Times. Nuts. I've never been, but now I feel compelled to go to WWDC
Regardless, my thoughts are with Mr. Jobs.

H!

MLK: No Days Off.

[moment of silence 2 times]

H!

(Broad) Casting Couch

Man.

I love my Macs. Plural indeed. Got a Black MacBook aka Blkbk, a Mac Mini plugged to a 42" Plasma, and I just bought a new Blkbk last week. Got a deal. Good Look Bro. Going to get back into music in more ways than one, so I needed to get gangster w/ OSX x Serato.

I love OSX and I speak it's qualities all the time, and have seen the whole world around me jump ship. I was iChatting with a newer user last night:
my girl Hana! Hawllah!

Broadcasting live from the comfort of her couch, heeeeeeeeeere's Hana!

*click below*



Had not seen her since my running (up) of the bills this summer in Barcelona, SPA. I f*cking love that place. Anyhow, I had blast on this 4 way w/ her, Ab and Leslie. It's always nice to catch up to cats man. And iChatAV is the vehicle best used for that. Say Wrd.
Now, go get your iChat on!

Hizzla.

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Where are the haters?? click above and read on.

Touch Screen Is The New Black

I recall being @ MacWorld in San Fran this past January and all were waiting for the doors to open so they could take a look @ the world's most anticipated phone - ever: The iPhone.

A few weeks ago, the 2nd biggest event took place online: The news that the iPhone had been unlocked! Well, it's now in my hands.

So I made the move during my recent trip to Las Vegas. So it's now official: Yes. Yes. Yes and Yes.

Yes, I have the iPhone baby. I was a Mac supporter when it wasn't cool and was being ridiculed. So, why stop now?



Yes, it is unlocked and was done so by my own bare hands (and BlkBook and software too). Yes that does say Rogers Wireless down below...



Yes, I have YouTube unlocked an running. Beware to those who buy from eBay: make sure that they have unlocked the YT functionality. It's not always the case or cleary detailed.

And yes,. You can see it when u see me next.

Touch screen is the new black, and who ever thinks it's not has not tried or used an iPhone yet, and is simply hating. In fact, most know that I am a Cupertino fan as much as I am a Finnish river buff. But even Nokia had to tilt their cap to the iPhone. In fact, they have a prototype of a Nokia branded iPhone-like device (some like to call that biting around these parts). Hell, they even put out a promo the phone. See below.



Coming soon near you. ;)

In any case, Apple has once again made history. They just recently sold their millionth phone in 74 days. And all that was before the unlock hack. How fast wll they sell their next million?? Be assured that with good supply, they'll do that in 1/2 the time. Friends online had commented on how the Buffalo Apple Store was a zoo. This one dude bought 10 phones in one shot. wowsers.

So, this one's for the ppl @ 1 Infinite Loop. Good look.

BTW, I've been hard @ work. Nothing posted for last month. Whip was cracking, Glad to be back.

Say wrd.

H!

Apple Loves Black People

These words would have left Kon the Louis Vuitton Don proud and Dubya Bush, Conde Rice, Michael Brown feeling more discomfort than a lactose person after a milk shake. I'm glad to see these type events take place. Who remembered that June is Black Music Month?? Apple did. As such, they have both Wayne Wonder & Tarrus Riley for an in store. Bobby Valentino tomorrow... Hey, I'll take that.
Apple loves black people and I love Apple right black. Click below for bigger version.

So who's your fave Black Music artist? why? Comment freely, and Happy Black Music Month.

Still Working: Geek Retreat Foreward

Gawd bless Nokia + Apple. They make for some serious team mates and road warriors. As such, you can leave town and still work like you hadn't. Sittin @ and undisclosed Apple Store, handling customer issues and sending emails, on a gorgeous day. Away on a quick Geek Retreat - which come up a few times a year. I'll be back before most even know I am away.

So where am I??
Drink on me if you can guess, but no drinks if you already know.

Speaking of drinks on me, 1 million apologies to Rache H who took the red wine on her turq pants Friday. Lo siento. I got you!

1 Infinite Loop is down with me

The above screen shot was taken this afternoon when I found some friends online who all had iSights whilst using Apple's iChat AV, a chatting app part of OSX. So I decided to start a video conference so we could geek out and watch eather make dumb faces (click above).
I still recall the days that I used to get clowned for using an Apple computer. Look @ them now. iBooks, Powerbooks and MacBooks are errrwhere. I won't even get into iTunes & the iPod. [head shakes] As such, I'm just giving a nod and a wink to my family 1nce regarded as inconsequetial and negligible. We apparently call all the shots though. Strength in (no) numbers. Shouts to Abb, Raj (nice face dude) & Keesha (happy bday grrrl!), and Hater dot com who was christened in 2006. An eternal shout out Steve J & Jonathan Ive.