Jason Snell

Tech journalist and podcaster. (Not really interacting here anymore. See pinned post for info about how to reach me.)

[Jason Snell @jsnell]

Good places where you can interact me:
Six Colors, Incomparable, Relay FM, TWiT member Discords (join today!)

jsnell at zeppelin dot flights on Mastodon
snell dot zone on Bsky
jsnell at threads

[Jason Snell @jsnell]

@themainbozz @imyke Just a slip, it was 2001

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@Techmeme Don't you love me anymore https://t.co/krueKt3nci

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@AngryVorosM How is Ol' Vorp doing? I lost track of him after the scandal.

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@Dalmcm Given what happened in the 2001 season (that Rutgers game--the only win--rescheduled to the end of the season), it actually seems fitting 25 years later?

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@jlagrone86 We are telling different stories. It’s not sequential. iPod is next. Then off to the 80s.

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@GriffinHilly Guy in whitefish will go to Calgary

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@SFGiants Maybe he can write it on his pride hat, the jerk.

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@heyjenbartel Here’s the code they are trying to get people to paste in. It ends up resolving to a download on some sketchy website, presumably malware or spyware. Sorry to hear the bad news.

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@heyjenbartel It was the dot com and i just tried and it didn’t happen that time, but it absolutely did. Probably meant to be intermittent.

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@heyjenbartel I got stopped by a false cloudflare notice that looked like the real thing except it was a phishing scam … you might want whomever built the site look at it for you

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@ampilogov hey, I got the game working with the Logitech Muse, which is really cool! But there seems to be a bug where sometimes the paddle detaches from my hand/the Muse and just floats above the table. I assume you know but I wanted to mention it.

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https://t.co/gpGi5B1o9H

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Hi folks. A few more days are left to join us and become an up-front member for Designed in California, a podcast about Apple history. Lots of great member benefits and extras. Just go to designed dot fm or search on Kickstarter

[Jason Snell @jsnell]

Designed in California Kickstarter is live!

https://t.co/Yo6GrbJ0hq

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@WCCSG_ J Torchio

[Jason Snell @jsnell]

Lots of people enjoyed the Upgrade episode about the origins of Apple! So @imyke and I are going to try to do it as a regular podcast. It will be a lot of work, so we need your help. Kickstarter campaign launches June 1! https://t.co/gpGi5B1o9H

[Jason Snell @jsnell]

Steve Jobs in Exile by @geoffrey_cain is out today. I talked to him about it this week in depth on Upgrade: https://t.co/VTat1dYQVJ

[Geoffrey Cain @geoffrey_cain]

Today is launch day for Steve Jobs in Exile. I spent almost four years digging into Steve's stretch in the wilderness -- 1985 to 1997, after Apple pushed him out and before it brought him back.

I expected the record to be complete. What more could there be on the most written-about entrepreneur alive? I was wrong. An archivist at Carnegie Mellon told me I was the first person in about fifteen years to open the NeXT archive. People had been holding letters, tapes, memos, recordings in their closets for decades, waiting to show someone. More than a hundred of them sat down with me.

They didn't tell me about the genius-or-tyrant caricature. This was a younger Steve, mostly off-camera, nearly bankrupt, learning the hard way. Out now, order link below.

[Jason Snell @jsnell]

@Ourand_Puck I have always loved your stuff but suggesting that Jim Dolan will become liked "by making his partners and public market investors a lot of money" seems to entirely miss the point about why people hate Jim Dolan.