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Steve Jobs held a town hall meeting with Apple employees late last week following the iPad launch. Wired reported on what was said at the meeting by Steve Jobs. Two of the biggest topics included Google and Adobe.

On Google, Jobs confirms the much-reported competition between the two companies.

On Google: We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them, he says.

As for Adobe, Jobs said they are lazy and Jobs blames Adobe for a buggy implementation of Flash on the Mac as one of the reasons they won’t support it.

Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy, he says. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5.

Some additional key points that were covered:

• Apple will deliver aggressive updates to iPhone that Android/Google won’t be able to keep up with.
• iPad is up there with the iPhone and Mac as the most important products Jobs has been a part of.
• Regarding the Lala acquisition, Apple was interested in bringing those people into the iTunes team.
• Next iPhone coming is an A+ update.
• New Macs for 2010 are going to take Apple to the next level.
• Blu-Ray software is a mess, and Apple will wait until sales really start to take off before implementing it.

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MacRumours
Wired

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http://twitter.com/lorenzo99/

In searching for a simple, open source (and free) Subversion client for OS X, I came across RapidSVN. I’m using RapidSVN, a multi-platform GUI front-end for the Subversion revision system.

RapidSVN is an open-source client for Windows, Linux, OS X and other *nixes. It’s simple and functional but requires third-party tools for functionality such as visual Diffs. Its written in C++ and executes native code, so it’s the fastest cross-platform client.

While the user interface is not as nice as Versions, it’s lightweight feel and zero cost fits my current needs.

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RapidSVN

David Heineimeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and partner at 37signals in Chicago, says that planning is guessing, and for a start-up, the focus must be on today and not on tomorrow. He argues that constraints–fiscal, temporal, or otherwise–drive innovation and effective problem-solving. The most important thing, Hansson believes, is to make a dent in the universe with your company.

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Unlearn Your MBA

This list describes twenty user experience deliverables with links to relevant resources and examples. Clearly, these artifacts of the process are not the whole story. We must also think about the relationship between goals, methods, and documents. And yet, for many of us, deliverables are the coin of the realm and merit special attention.

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User Experience Deliverables

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25-point Website Usability Checklist via City Interaction Lab @ Twitter.