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Apple Stores to close for 1-hr this Wednesday so employees can watch livefeed of Steve Jobs memorial
A week after Steve Jobs passed away, Tim Cook sent out an email informing Apple employees that a special and private ceremony celebrating the life and accomplishments of Steve Jobs was planned for October 19 at 10 a.m Pacific Time on Apple’s Cupertino campus. In light of that, 9to5Mac has learned that Apple Stores this […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs briefly discusses Siri and iTunes Match functionality in 2010 [Video]
Thursday, October 13, 2011
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Apple’s iPhone 4S launches today and Siri, Apple’s AI-based voice assistant, is clearly one of the device’s more compelling features. But there’s more than just an iPhone launch this week. Apple this week introduced iOS 5 while also rolling out iCloud. In the video below, taken from the All Things D conference during the Summer […]
Continue reading...Who inspired Steve Jobs? Edwin H. Land, co-founder of Polaroid
Thursday, October 13, 2011
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It’s been common, and well deserved, to see obituaries and tributes to Steve Jobs compare the Apple co-founder to Thomas Edison, perhaps the most esteemed inventor in history. That’s all well and good, but Christopher Bonanos of the New York Times points out an interesting fact: Jobs wasn’t enamored with Edison. Rather, he looked to another […]
Continue reading...Guy Kawasaki on lessons learned from Steve Jobs – “Jumping to the next curve”
Thursday, October 13, 2011
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Most Apple fans are familiar with the name Guy Kawasaki, the original Mac evangelist who began working at Apple in 1983. Over the next four years, Kawasaki was responsible for touting the benefits of the then fledgling Mac platform to software and hardware developers before leaving in 1987 to get into business for himself. During […]
Continue reading...Richard Branson on the inspiring Steve Jobs
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
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Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford commencement speech is largely considered one of the best graduation speeches in recent memory. Interestingly enough, I recently showed the speech to a friend of mine and it wasn’t long before she had tears streaming down her face, so touched she was by Jobs’ inspirational story. Truth be told, I wasn’t […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs explains why he wore a black turtleneck every day
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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The release of Steve Jobs highly anticipated biography is set for release in just under two weeks. The book is the first authorized Steve Jobs biography and promises to be a page-turner, with Jobs advising friends, colleagues, ex-girlfriends, and even infuriated rivals to speak candidly about him and not hold anything back. Penned by famed […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs initiated contact with Samsung to stave off legal standoff
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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During Apple’s earnings conference call from last April, Tim Cook, who was then Apple’s COO and acting CEO, addressed a question regarding Apple’s then fresh lawsuit against Samsung wherein it alleged the Korean-based electronics giant of copying the look and feel of its iOS devices. Despite considering Samsung a valuable partner in many respects, Cook […]
Continue reading...Apple to hold private ceremony in celebration of Steve Jobs on October 19
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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On October 19 at 10 a.m, Apple will hold a special ceremony to honor the life and times of co-founder Steve Jobs who passed away last Wednesday. The function will be a private Apple event and was first brought to light by MacGeneration who obtained an internal email sent out by CEO Tim Cook. Team, […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs stands up for gay rights at NeXT
Monday, October 10, 2011
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So many Steve Jobs stories it’s literally impossible to keep up with the stream. This one, however, deserves special mention. Ronald Hayden details his first experience with Steve Jobs when he was hired on as a manager at NeXT. The following is excerpted from Hayden’s public Google+ profile. “When I was a child, I had […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs died of respiratory arrest and pancreatic tumor
Monday, October 10, 2011
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The Santa Clara Count Public Heath Department today released Steve Jobs’ death certificate. The document notes that Jobs died at his home of respiratory arrest and a pancreatic tumor at about 3 p.m. last Wednesday. Fittingly, his occupation was listed as “entrepreneur.” Jobs of course had publicly battled Pancreatic cancer for some time. Though often […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs – Apple has 1,000 engineers working on chips
Monday, October 10, 2011
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Erick Schonfeld relays an interesting tidbit about the tremendous engineering resources Apple is devoting towards its mobile products. While everything sure looks easy when Phil Schiller is introducing the iPhone 4S, or Jobs the iPhone 4, the reality is that countless engineering hours are poured into seemingly simple things, such as giving the iPhone 4S […]
Continue reading...Design student creates instantly iconic Apple logo fused with silhouette of Steve Jobs
Monday, October 10, 2011
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Below is sweet and creative riff on the Apple logo paired with a silhouette of Steve Jobs. This photo has been making the rounds quite a bit over the past few days and illustrates, as Tim Cook said in his company wide email, that Jobs’ spirit “will forever be the foundation of Apple”, his influence […]
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Saturday, October 15, 2011
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