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herupu herupu herupu!!!!! Why Steve Jobs needs Joel Spolsky

Joel Spolsky has just posted a comparison of the Apple and Microsoft approaches to screen rendering of type, in which he says if Apple is Target Microsoft would be Wal-Mart. Weeeeellllllll — the problem is neither is remotely like Fog Creek. If Joel ran Apple I would know where to send my couple of hundred complaints about my Mac — and Joel, who has written about how to achieve remarkable customer service, who has more recently written on debugging as a game of inches, would actually welcome the couple of hundred complaints, and act on them, and Apple bloody Apple would have a product accessible to the telepathically challenged.

About 6 months ago Apple clawed its way up from a 4.3% market share to a 4.7% market share!!!!!!!! Achieving 16% growth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Poor old Bill Gates would be hollow-eyed and popping Temazepam but for one little thing. All he has to do is look at what you get if you click on Kotoeri Help, seeking assistance with Japanese input, to know he is dealing with lunatics.

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Casting

Ingrid showed this extraordinary sculpture of her mother, Elsa, at the London Art Fair in January. I’ve asked her to do one of me; she says

I have a new idea about our casting. It would be great if we did it as the lost & found\shelves project in Lietzen\ Petersdorf this month and showed it at the opening 1st of July. What do you think?

Off to Naunynstrasse now for talks about talks. More on Elsa here.

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Gunslinger gesucht

DeWitt and Gridneff are looking for a fistful of dollars, or ein paar Dollar mehr — yep, we’re looking for an agent. The opening chapters of Your Name Here are due to appear in the next issue of n+1. There’s still the little matter of a publisher.

Deutschepost misdelivers 50% of all post (only the other day I received package for Jacques Dewitte of 5 Fidicinstrasse). T-Com is on strike so the phone is also kaput. Tim Semple: Helen, you haven’t harnessed the power of the Internet!

The Force is with me.

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