Posts Tagged ‘ Steve Jobs ’

Naturally and properly, the earthquake and tsunami in Japan dominated the news on Friday and throughout the weekend, yet coverage of Apple’s iPad2 launch commanded almost as many column inches and airtime minutes, suggesting the Cupertino clan’s dominance of the tablet world may have (almost) as much global importance as an entire nation’s fate....
Read more »

Back in the day, when Silicon Valley was just another upper-middle class collection of tract homes south of San Francisco, two guys named Steve built computers in a garage and sold them for an un-superstitious $666.66. Earlier this week, one of those original Apple-1 computers sold at a London Christie’s auction for a reported...
Read more »

Steve Jobs has a sense of humor; who knew? Especially after a week of ranting about his competitors’ short-comings and abuses, Jobs caught reporters off-guard when he commented on the provenance of the new MacBook Air: “We asked ourselves what would happen if a MacBook and an iPad hooked-up?” Of course, the result would...
Read more »

Steve Jobs is not a political guy. Apple Computer, Steve Jobs’s mega-corporation, is not a political company. In fact, Jobs and Apple are about as a-political as they ever could be. Apple does maintain an office in Washington, D.C., employing four lobbyists and providing them with a budget of just under $350,000 per quarter....
Read more »

Wall Street held its breath and several of the major news services postponed their tech writers’ deadlines yesterday, anticipating more bold and beautiful breakthroughs at Apple Computer’s annual Fall Event. Although the Cupertino clan had nothing so daring as iPad or iPhone 4, nevertheless they did not disappoint. Apple officials introduced a new version...
Read more »

Eager techies need not submit their resumes, because there are no vacancies; but weekend cleaning crews tidied-up vacant executive suites at Apple and HP in the wake of Friday’s sensational changes at the tops of the two computer giants’ organization charts. On Friday, Apple Computer, Inc. confirmed that Mark Papermaster had left his job...
Read more »

Last Friday morning, Steve Jobs humbly confessed, “We’re not perfect, phones aren’t perfect. But we want to make all our users happy.” The confession finally put rumors of super-human powers to rest, and Jobs’s subsequent announcement that Apple would supply free “bumpers” to unhappy iPhone 4 customers put most other extravagant rumors to rest,...
Read more »

Ho-hum: More magic and dazzle from the Cupertino crowd. With his usual charm, humour, and charisma, Steve Jobs officially unwrapped Apple’s iPhone 4 at the company’s annual developers’ conference.  Clearly impassioned about his new product, Jobs told the big audience and throng of reporters, “This is beyond a doubt the most precise thing and...
Read more »

“Jobs proclaims end of PC era,” the headlines read after Steve Jobs spoke to participants in the D8, “All Things Digital” conference this week. The headline probably shed more light on Jobs’s enthusiasm for the iPad than it qualified as quote-worthy prophecy.  Still, when Jobs, clad in signature jeans and turtleneck and outfitted with...
Read more »

Add this to the “techies” category in your urban dictionary: “Appatalism,” a contraction of Apple and capitalism, usually used as part of the allegation that Apple Computers is using its application-development rules to squash competition—“approximately like big wing-tip shoes crunch little ladybugs,” one Apple detractor asserts.  David Balto, a former policy director with the...
Read more »