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   Kieran Healy (kjhealy@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 09:23:01 JST Kieran Healy

   The device that essentially gave us the specific version of the pocket, touch-based, single-app-at-a-time, mobile, ubiquitous, GPS-enhanced computing world we have now was introduced 18 years ago today.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnrJzXM7a6o

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     Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 09:23:00 JST Kim Scheinberg

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     @kjhealy
     I'd guess that three days out of five for more than a year, I stood right behind Steve in the cafeteria cashier line. I was a fan whereas JK, who started at Apple in '87, was of the "get off the elevator when Steve gets on" school.

     When I was speechwriting I'd make clients watch his famous 1997 WWDC answer. The stool, the water bottle, the mic handling... it's a masterclass in stage presence.

     But despite my admiration, I don't think of him as charismatic. Almost the opposite.

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     Kieran Healy (kjhealy@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 09:23:01 JST Kieran Healy

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     Here’s a thing I wrote in 2011, when Jobs died.

     https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2011/10/10/a-sociology-of-steve-jobs/