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From Chuck D to Coldplay and Neil Diamod, Music luminaries pay tribute to Steve Jobs
We somehow missed this amongst the avalanche of tributes to Steve Jobs following his death but think it’s still worth posting. Jobs of course was an avid music fan and often used his personal connections to musicians to help get Apple’s music initiatives up off the ground. That Apple’s iPod fundamentally changed the music industry […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs’ involvement in the design and architecture of Apple retail stores
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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One would be hard pressed to find a CEO as actively involved with the minutiae of his/her company’s products as Steve Jobs was. A stickler for even the tiniest of details, Jobs personally oversaw nearly every aspect of everything Apple churned out. From the type of wood used in Apple retail stores to how a […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs thought Mick Jagger was either on drugs or brain damaged upon first meeting him
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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Steve Jobs was an avowed Rolling Stones fan, though they weren’t quite as high up on his musical mantle as let’s say Bob Dylan or The Beatles. A small blurb from the soon to be released Steve Jobs biography recounts a story of how Andy Warhol convinced Jobs to share the original Macintosh with Mick […]
Continue reading...Time Lapse video of Steve Jobs white charcoal portrait
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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An incredible time lapse video of someone creating a white charcoal portrait of Steve Jobs. The video comes courtesy of Xiaonan Sun of ThePortraitArt who has an extensive portfolio of impressive charcoal portraits that users can purchase.
Continue reading...Al Gore: Steve Jobs is the kind of guy that comes along once every 250 years
Monday, October 24, 2011
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During Al Gore’s recent interview at the AsiaD conference, the former Vice President waxed poetic on a wide swath of issues, though a good portion of the interview was naturally centered on Apple and the passing of Steve Jobs. As an Apple board member, and with experience in all a wide range of business ventures, […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs recounts meeting his biological father without him knowing Jobs was his son
Monday, October 24, 2011
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Steve Jobs’ biological father was a Syrian immigrant named Abdulfattah John Jandali. In the days following Jobs resignation as the CEO of Apple, Jandali came forward and explained the impetus behind giving Jobs up for adoption. The short of it is that Jandali’s girlfriend and Jobs’ biological mother Joanne Simpson had a family that wasn’t […]
Continue reading...CBS posts full interview with Steve Jobs’ biographer Walter Isaacson
Sunday, October 23, 2011
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CBS just posted their full-length interview with Steve Jobs’ biographer Walter Isaacson. The interview is divided into two segments which can be viewed below. The interview touches on Jobs’ childhood and the development of some of Apple’s biggest products, but the thrust of the interview centers on the Jobs’ mindset, his persona, and how he […]
Continue reading...Bill Clinton asked Steve Jobs for advice regarding the Monica Lewisnky scandal
Sunday, October 23, 2011
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So you’ve just been accused of cheating on your wife and getting a little bit of action on the DL from a young 24-year old intern, what do you do? Well if you’re Bill Clinton, you call and ask Steve Jobs for advice. In just one of the many revealing tidbits housed in Jobs’ upcoming […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs’ advice to Larry Page
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Steve Jobs’ hatred for Android can’t be overstated. In a recently released excerpt, the Apple co-founder vowed to destroy Android and told biographer Walter Isaacson he’d spend his last dying breath trying to right what Jobs considered to be Google’s grand theft of Apple’s iOS. Nevertheless, Jobs appeared to have mended fences with Google CEO […]
Continue reading...Why Steve Jobs was initially opposed to the iTunes App Store
Friday, October 21, 2011
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The iTunes App Store, to a lesser degree than the iPhone, fundamentally changed the way people interact with and use their phones. Whereas mobile apps used to consist of games like rudimentary poker titles, Apple’s app store ushered in a new era of smartphone applications with categories that ran the gamut from photography apps to […]
Continue reading...Al Gore says Steve Jobs didn’t want Apple driven by “What would Steve Jobs Do?” syndrome
Friday, October 21, 2011
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Despite a penchant for being outspoken and extremely stubborn, Steve Jobs wanted to ensure that the Apple he left behind didn’t fall prey to the WWSJD syndrome, as in employees not thinking for themselves and otherwise trying to implement what they feel Jobs would have done in a particular situation. In a recent discussion held […]
Continue reading...Jony Ive had “more operational power” at Apple than anyone besides Steve Jobs
Friday, October 21, 2011
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Bits and pieces of Steve Jobs biography continue to trickle in and, man, this is going to occupy a lot of time for us next week. In one snippet relayed by the AP, Jobs says that Apple design guru Jony Ive, someone Jobs had previously referred to as his best friend, wielded the most power […]
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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