3 posts and columns on bicycle

California Apple Store Could Let the Sun Shine In

in News on August 17, 2011 at 4:55 am PT

An unnamed retailer has plans for a Santa Monica location with a giant glass ceiling. It looks awfully familiar.
apple store santa monica front

You’re Right, Steve. The PC Is a Truck. But the Tablet Isn’t a Car. It’s a Bicycle.

in News on June 17, 2010 at 10:45 am PT

Apple CEO Steve Jobs likes to compare the transition from desktop/laptop PC to tablet with the transition from trucks to cars. Like trucks, which waned in popularity with the urbanization of America, so too will older PC form factors with the advent of more mobile and responsive forms of computing. “PCs are going to be like trucks,” he said. “They’re still going to be around, they’re still going to have a lot of value, but they’re going to be used by one out of X people.” Jobs stopped short of predicting just how quickly this transition will occur, but in a research report published today, Forrester hazards a guess.

Lance Armstrong Talks About France, Cycling and Livestrong.com

in News on November 6, 2008 at 5:00 am PT

BoomTown managed to sneak into the green room at the Web 2.0 Summit last night to get a little chit-chat in with Lance Armstrong, the seven-time winner of the Tour de France cycling race title. Armstrong is now probably going for his eighth one, much to the chagrin of France (yes, the whole country, as Armstrong notes in one of the clips in the video below), part of his “comeback” from a three-year retirement. Here’s a video of him talking to me about his health and fitness Web site, Livestrong.com, and some snippets from his onstage interview with Web 2.0′s John Battelle.