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Steve Jobs promised to “destroy Android”, claims it was a stolen product
Steve Jobs was furious when he learned of Google’s plans with Android, famously yelling at then Google CEO Eric Schmidt for what Jobs deemed as being stabbed in the back. You’ll recall that Schmidt, at the time, was a member of Apple’s board of directors before resigning in August 2009 citing conflicting interests. It’s subsequently […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs told Obama, “You’re headed for a one-term presidency.”
Thursday, October 20, 2011
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This Monday, the first authorized biography of Steve Jobs will hit bookstores. The book is easily one of the most anticipated titles of the year. Based on over 40 in-depth interviews with Jobs and over 100 interviews with former girlfriends, colleagues, and rivals of the Apple co-founder, the book is touted as a no-holds barred […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs regretted delaying his cancer treatment for 9 months back in 2004
Thursday, October 20, 2011
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Steve Jobs’ biographer Walter Isaacson will appear on 60 Minutes this Sunday to talk about all things Jobs and help promote his forthcoming book about the Apple co-founder. CBS has now provided a small preview of the upcoming interview with the most revealing tidbit being that Jobs, in hindsight, expressed regret for waiting 9 months […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson to appear on 60 Minutes this weekend
Thursday, October 20, 2011
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It’s not an understatement to say that Steve Jobs upcoming biography, scheduled to hit stores on October 24th, is one of the most anticipated books this year. Though Jobs headed up a technology company, his influence transcended geeks and gadgets, a fact which was quite apparent following his death a few weeks ago when Apple […]
Continue reading...Photo of Tim Cook speaking at Steve Jobs celebration event
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
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Apple recently posted a photo from today’s Steve Jobs’ celebration on Apple’s Cupertino campus earlier today. Below you can see CEO Tim Cook addressing what we imagine to be thousands of Apple employees. Other speakers at the event included board members Bill Campbell and Al Gore.
Continue reading...Steve Jobs was working on Apple’s “next product” up until the day before he died
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
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Even during his last days, Jobs played an active role at Apple. It’s been reported that Jobs, in the days leading up to the recent iPhone 4S event, was giving tips to Apple’s top brass about the presentation. And now comes word via Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son that Jobs worked on Apple up until the […]
Continue reading...When Dropbox told Steve Jobs that they weren’t for sale
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Apple this week delivered its latest attempt at giving users the ability to seamlessly share documents and media across a multitude of devices with the roll-out of iCloud. But before Apple developed iCloud in-house, it sought to acquire Dropbox – which you might recognize as the highly regarded web based file hosting and digital storage […]
Continue reading...Stephen Wolfram reflects back on Steve Jobs
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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You may not have heard of Stephen Wolfram but rest assured that he’s a brilliant guy. Born in Britain to Jewish refugees, Wolfram is the man behind Mathematica, A New Kind of Science and, more recently, Wolfram Alpha. Not too long ago Wofram penned a truly informative look back at his relationship with Steve Jobs, […]
Continue reading...Samsung COO Lee Jae-yong attended Steve Jobs’ memorial event
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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This past weekend, we highlighted a memorial service held for Steve Jobs at Stanford University’s Memorial Church. Amidst the large number of high-profile guests was Samsung president and COO Lee Jae-yong – who also happens to be the son of Samsung’s CEO. This is particularly noteworthy given a) Apple and Samsung’s ongoing legal strife and b) […]
Continue reading...Droves of luminaries, from Bill Gates to Joan Baez, attended memorial service for Steve Jobs this weekend
Monday, October 17, 2011
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A memorial service for Steve Jobs was held this weekend at Stanford University’s Memorial Church. The event attracted a number of technological, political, and artistic luminaries who all gathered to pay their respects to a man whose products, as he so often said, existed at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts. The Wall […]
Continue reading...Chrisann Brennan, Steve Jobs’ first girlfriend, describes a different side of Jobs
Monday, October 17, 2011
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The stories about Steve Jobs continue to roll in with surprising frequency. The following is a nice little blurb from Steve Jobs’ first girlfriend, Chrisann Brennan. You know, the woman who mothered Lisa. In any event, Chrisann reveals a new side of Jobs, a romantic music-loving guy who wasn’t inclined to waste much of his […]
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt praises Steve Jobs – “He was always ahead of me”
Monday, October 17, 2011
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Erick Schmidt and Steve Jobs have had their squabbles over the years, most famously when Jobs felt Schmidt stabbed him and Apple in the back with their plans for Android. You might remember that Schmidt at one point was a board member at Apple before resigning in 2009 citing a conflict of interest due to […]
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Friday, October 21, 2011
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