Archive | August 30th, 2011
Steve Jobs’ father regrets giving him up for adoption; hopes to one day meet his son
Those familiar with Steve Jobs’ life story know that Jobs was adopted as a child and has never met his birth parents. It’s also well known that Jobs’ biological father is of Syrian descent. In the wake of Jobs’ resignation, new details surrounding Jobs’ adoption, the reasons behind it, and the man who is Jobs’ […]
Continue reading...Like Jobs, Tim Cook begins responding to user emails with terse messages
30. August 2011
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In the virtual world, Steve Jobs is perhaps best known for his extremely terse and to-the-point email responses to consumers. With Tim Cook now firmly in place as Apple CEO, some have wondered if he would be as open to responding to user emails as Jobs was. Though to be fair, Jobs’ email responses were […]
Continue reading...On meeting Steve Jobs in an elevator and Jobs’ hearing loss
30. August 2011
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Following Steve Jobs’ resignation as the CEO of Apple, there’s been an avalanche of interesting and poignant anecdotes about Apple’s legendary co-founder. One in particular that hasn’t gotten a lot of attention is from long time Apple employee Michael Dhuey who worked at Apple from 1980 through 2005 and was one of two people who […]
Continue reading...Samsung reportedly interested in HP’s WebOS
30. August 2011
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With HP in the midst of what seems like an unprecedented scale of corporate suicide, Samsung’s mobile division is fending off an aggressive and multi-continent patent attack from Apple on the grounds that its implementation of Google’s Android OS infringes upon a number of Apple patents. Broadly speaking, Apple bluntly accuses Samsung’s mobile lineup of […]
Continue reading...Sprint employees advised not to talk about the iPhone
30. August 2011
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By all accounts, the next-gen iPhone will be available on Sprint beginning in October when Apple is believed to be releasing the anticipated followup to the iPhone 4. Not only have trustworthy sources like the WSJ indicated as much over the past few weeks, but job listings from Apple coupled with reports that Apple is […]
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30. August 2011
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