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    "Of all the pithy, pointed, and quotable sentences uttered about Steve Jobs during his three decades on the national scene, my favorite comes from an early Apple colleague: 'He would have made an excellent king of France.' Except even Louis XIV would envy the quantity of words spilled by two generations of journalists trying to tell us what King Steve is really like," Daniel Okrent reports for Fortune. "I'll confess: I didn't read every page of the 21 Jobs-related books stacked so thickly on my desk that there's barely room left for my 24-inch, 2.93GHz iMac, my 120GB iPod, my iPhone G3, or my backup Mac Mini" Okrent reports. "(I've taken a pass on the Apple TV, which seems about as necessary as a backache.)" Your loss, Danny Boy, your loss. Full Article at MacDailyNews
    I'll confess: I didn't read every page of the 21 Jobs-related books stacked so thickly on my desk that there's barely room left for my 24-inch, 2.93GHz iMac, my 120GB iPod, my iPhone G3, or my backup Mac Mini
    – Daniel Okrent SOURCE: MacDailyNews 1 month ago
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  1. Of all the pithy, pointed, and quotable sentences uttered about Steve Jobs during his three decades on the national scene, my favorite comes from an early Apple colleague: 'He would have made an excellent king of France.' Except even Louis XIV would envy the quantity of words spilled by two generations ...
    SOURCE: MacDailyNews 1 month ago

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