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It’s hard to have a favorite Steve Jobs speech or quote when there’s so many great ones.

A bicycle for our minds. Values. We won’t ship junk. Giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell. His commencement address at Stanford in 2005.

In the last few years though, his vision of the world has become something of a daily matra for me (hat tip Craig Hooper):

When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and you’re life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.

That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.

I expect I’ll be learning from Jobs for many years to come.

Promila Shastri on Steve Jobs:

Steve Jobs was, not surprisingly, a complicated man, both great and awful, capable of incomparable vision and shocking lapses in judgement, who saw some things with singular clarity and others with no benefit whatsoever of wisdom. To have been his mother or wife or daughter, I’ll bet, was not much fun. But for the rest of us, Steve Jobs was nothing, if not fun.

As is expected from Promila, a beautifully concise remembrance.

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—Wayne White

Yesterday I posted a nitpick from iOS 6, so here’s something I like.

Now when you update apps in the App Store, iOS no longer yanks you out of the app to the Home screen. The App Store also no longer requires iTunes password authentication for free apps, just the paid ones.

Two minor updates adding up to a lot when you apply them across the dozens of apps on my iPhone (and iPad).

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It’s been a few weeks since I upgraded my iPhone 4 from iOS 5 to iOS 6.

Overall, things are good. There’s been some welcome improvements, some steps backward and little nitpicks here and there. I’ll start with one of the nitpicks.

In the music application, Apple has updated the styling on the track duration scrubber and the volume slider. Both elements share the same visual style, as they did in iOS 5, but for some reason it bothers me this time around. Now, the both read as differently scaled volume sliders to my eyes.

Perhaps this is because both of them are larger and have a more pronounced, brushed-aluminum style (I really hope Apple eases off the skeuomorphs in future OS versions).

I wonder if something like this doesn’t make more sense:

While both controls slide, they perform different functions and thus should have different visual stylings.