November 2007 Archives

The Post Office Protocol (POP) mail retrieval method just doesn't cut it these days. People want their mail to appear in sync on all of their devices. Login using your favorite mail application on your computer or with the iPhone or web mail when remote. Email shouldn't be something that needs to be managed on each device!

Since Google added support for Internet Messaging Access Protocol (IMAP) to Gmail I check my mail more frequently. This is because I am not dreading having to login to the web interface to perform clean up work.

Why is it that so many people talk about Steve Jobs as if he makes every decision in Apple? Was Steve the lead product manager on Leopard? Did he personally select the 300+ new features that were added? Does he pull the development staff together every day to run through the bug list? Did he develop Time Machine? Is he working on the iPhone SDK? Where does he find the time to manage every single detail in the company?

It should be obvious that Steve can not directly manage every project undertaken by the 17,787 Apple employees. So why is it that people are compelled to say things like...