Driving Lightning

Awesome!!! Great to see Brian Croll getting some WWDC keynote time. Incredibly smart guy and a delight to work with.

I love the ability to attach real written signatures to Apple Mail without jumping through hoops.

OK, I now have good reasons for keeping up my iCloud subscription.

I still would like to see the strawberry field UI theme from Mac OS X Oxnard…..

WWDC reaction prediction:

+0d: “Disappointing”
+90d: “Android versions will eclipse it.”
+180d: “We totally predicted it would be huge”

Apple shares a lot of tech across product lines. Musk’s companies share tech in making solar panels, electric cars, and spaceships. #synergy

SpaceX’s Dragon 2 instrument panel bears a certain resemblance to Hal 9000’s console, but with bigger flat displays a la Tesla Model S.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is 3D printing its rocket engines. Now that’s 21st century manufacturing. #ImLivingInTheFuture

For everyone shouting that Microsoft is launching a smart watch, please remember that it isn’t its first. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Per…

Based on 451 Research M&A KnowledgeBase, the Apple/Beats deal value is ~2x all the public acquisitions Apple has done since 1/1/2010. #yg