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Stanford’s Apple collection provides a rare glimpse into early days of Apple [Video]
Not being one prone to nostalgia, Steve Jobs, upon taking over Apple in 1997, famously tossed out mountains of Apple historical memorabilia. As the story goes, Jobs explained that it’d be impossible to move the company forward and prepare for the future if they remained hung up on the past. Within a few days, Stanford […]
Continue reading...Apple issues legal threat to manufacturer of 12-inch Steve Jobs action figure
Thursday, January 5, 2012
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Chinese manufacturer In Icon recently created a 12-inch Steve Jobs action figure that looks incredibly similar to Jobs himself. With no detail overlooked, the figurine showcases Jobs in his iconic black turtleneck, Levi blue jeans, circular glasses, and New Balance sneakers. It also comes with two Apples (one of which has a bite taken out […]
Continue reading...Rendering a portrait of Steve Jobs on an Apple IIC
Monday, January 2, 2012
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Here’s an interesting/odd video for the New Years holiday – an Applesoft BASIC program that renders a photo of Steve Jobs on an Apple IIC sporting a 1 megahertz 8-bit processor. The program was created by Chris Baird who notes that the video speed jumps to 600% at about 45 seconds in.
Continue reading...And so, Steve Jobs wins a Grammy
Thursday, December 22, 2011
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Steve Jobs has posthumously won a Grammy. Well, sort of. The Recording Academy announced yesterday that the Apple co-founder will be honored with the organization’s Special Merit Award which honors substantial non-performance contributions to the recorded music industry. And given how Apple under the steady hand of Jobs revolutionized the entire music industry with the […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy – BBC Documentary
Saturday, December 17, 2011
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Below is the hour long BBC Documentary titled Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy. Broadly considered a brand that inspires fervour and defines cool consumerism, Apple has become one of the biggest corporations in the world, fuelled by game-changing products that tap into modern desires. Its leader, Steve Jobs, was a long-haired college dropout with infinite […]
Continue reading...Computer History Museum unveils online Steve Jobs exhibit with extremely rare video of Jobs circa 1980
Friday, December 9, 2011
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Just when you thought you’d seen everything there was to see about Steve Jobs, the Computer History Museum – located in Mountain View, California – yesterday announced a new online Steve Jobs exhibit that traces Jobs’ life from his early days in Palo Alto all the way up to his unparalleled second act as Apple […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs biography is Amazon’s top selling book of 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
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Despite not hitting stores until the last quarter of 2011, Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs is now Amazon’s best selling book of 2011 – an incredible feat given that it’s only been in stores for about two months. Still, the news shouldn’t come as much of a surprise given that pre-orders of the Steve […]
Continue reading...The next products Steve Jobs was hoping to reinvent
Thursday, November 24, 2011
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The New York Times recently sat down with Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson to briefly pick his brain about which products Jobs wanted to reinvent next and a whole lot more. According to Isaacson, Jobs was keen on reinventing the television, textbooks, and photography. “He really wanted to take these on,” Isaacson said. “I didn’t […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs on the design process – excerpt from upcoming Robert X. Cringley interview
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
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In 1996, Robert X. Cringley put together the famed PBS special “Triumph of the Nerds” where he weaved a narrative of the early days of Silicon Valley based on the people who were a part of that era. Naturally, Steve Jobs was one of the folks Cringley interviewed and is the source of the legendary […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs looked into bypassing mobile carriers via Wi-Fi spectrum
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
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Always keen on thinking outside the box, and more importantly, lessening Apple’s reliance on third parties, Steve Jobs in the mid-2000’s contemplating the possibility of delivering an iPhone that completely bypassed the carriers. In other words, Jobs was actively exploring the notion of creating a network exclusively for the iPhone using the unlicensed spectrum used […]
Continue reading...Mark Zuckerberg talks about Steve Jobs the mentor
Monday, November 7, 2011
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Apple and Facebook have been known to butt heads at the negotiation table but that never stopped Apple co-founder Steve Jobs from dispensing some sage advice to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In an interview set to air tonight with Charlie Rose, ZUckerberg explains the extent to which Jobs helped Facebook remain focused on its core […]
Continue reading...Bill Gates handles Steve Jobs’ insults in stride
Monday, November 7, 2011
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Steve Jobs was never one to pull any punches. Sugar coating his opinions simply wasn’t in his nature and it’s not terribly surprising to see Jobs take quite a few shots and some familiar targets in his biography. Steve Jobs was never a fan of Microsoft. Worse than copying the Mac with Windows, Microsoft was […]
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
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