Super Bowl commercials are as famous as the game. If done right, possibly more memorable. Who played in the 1984 Super Bowl? Who knows. But I bet most of you know the famous Apple 1984 commercial even if you didn’t see it aired live on January 22nd 1984. This year Samsung took to the Super [...]
A commercial featuring a fake Steve Jobs is airing in Taiwan and stirring up controversy. Action Electronics hired a Taiwanese comedian to impersonate the late Apple co-founder to promote its Android tablet, something Jobs wouldn’t have approved of. Jobs didn’t hide his distaste of Android, Google’s mobile operating system. In his biography, He threatened to go “thermonuclear” [...]
Apple will announce the results of the company’s first quarter of 2012 tomorrow afternoon right as the stock market closes on the East coast. This is an important quarter for Apple (AAPL) as it marks several firsts. This is the first quarter without Steve Jobs at the helm in some capacity, the first quarter of [...]
In the weeks building up the the launch of the new iPhone, I, like many of you, was excited to see Apple had cooked up for a market that has been flooded with a multitude of intriguing devices. You see, I have an iPhone 3GS. I’ve had it for two years and my contract with [...]
Since Steve Jobs’ passing there has been quite a bit of talk, coverage, reminiscing, reading, eulogizing, demonizing, pedestal constructing, and general chatter about the man, his life, and his accomplishments. Fueled not only by the one thing we’ll all eventually share with the man, death, it has also been fueled by that was released with [...]
Last week Apple closed down Apple stores and the company campus to celebrate the life of Steve Jobs in a private memorial service. This service lasted just under two hours, and included speakers and musical guests who were there to honor the late Steve Jobs. Apple has now posted the entire video online, as well [...]
Walter Isaacson appeared on 60 Minutes last night to discuss his new Steve Jobs autobiography, which is available today at bookstores and on iBooks and Kindle. The interview discusses Steve Job’s life and the authorized biography, which gave Isaacson unprecedented access to Jobs. Steve Jobs was the co-founder of Apple, who was forced out of [...]
Steve Jobs’ biography titled ‘Steve Jobs’ by Walter Isaacson, coming Monday, reveals the late Apple executive’s disdain and utter hatred for rival Google’s Android operating system. At one point, Jobs says that he is declaring thermonuclear war against Android. When the iPhone came out in mid-2007 with what was then the iPhone OS, it joined [...]
Last week, Google and Samsung announced that they were delaying the Android Ice Cream Sandwich and thus, the Galaxy Nexus announcement due to the passing of Steve Jobs. The event was originally scheduled to take place on October 11th, today, but has been delayed indefinitely. Well, according to Eldar Murtazin, the delay had nothing to [...]
The New Yorker released its tribute cover of Steve Jobs, which will grace the October 17 edition of the magazine. In a blog post, The New Yorker shows that the cover will depict Steve Jobs meeting Saint Peter at the pearly gates. Saint Peter is using an iPad, apparently using it to do a little research before deciding [...]
If you want to see the impact Steve Jobs had on the computing industry, the animated history of the iPhone is a good place to start. Cnet UK put together what is essentially an animated iPhone infographic that covers the path of mobile phones, mp3 players and computers through the yesr. This video also shows [...]
Steve Wozniak, the Apple co-founder and friend of Steve Jobs talked with the Associated Press last night after learning of Jobs’ passing. He tearfully described his reaction to the news and reminisced about his early days with his friend as they worked together to change the world of technology. Probably my favorite line from the [...]
Back in May I moderated a panel at a literary conference about how science fiction is the new reality. The description read: “Star Trek offers a vision of the future that includes personal, networked communicators, talking, intelligent computers, and the tricorder, a portable, hand-held networked computing device. Today we have cellphones, IBM’s Watson, and the [...]
When news of Walter Isaccson’s biography of Steve Jobs hit the wire it generated so much intense interest that the book climbed quickly onto Amazon’s best seller list weeks before its actual release. With the sad news of Jobs’ passing, people are even more interested in a peek behind the curtain of the man’s life [...]
One of those times that you’ll remember who you were with happened tonight when word came down that Steve Jobs had died. I was with the folks at Wayside Theatre in the middle of a technical rehearsal when our music director and sound designer, Steve Przybylski told us that Steve had passed. Intriguingly, Steve P. [...]
Steve, I was pulling for you. I really was. When your second leave of absence was announced, I knew you were on the decline. When you stepped down as CEO of Apple, I’d hoped you were getting away to savor the important things in life. Seems you had less time for that than I’d hoped.
In a press release, Apple has confirmed that former CEO Steve Jobs passed away today at the age of 56. The news comes just a little over a month after Jobs announced that he would step down from the company as CEO with Apple COO Tim Cook taking the reigns of CEO. Jobs remained on [...]
Under the guidance of Steve Jobs, and other key Apple employees, the iPhone has made a huge mark on the smartphone and consumer electronic market. By daring to go against the grain, ditching a keyboard and going with a large touchscreen, Apple changed the face of smartphones. This is quite evident in the fast evolution of Android [...]
According to a recent survey Steve Jobs’ resignation as the CEO of Apple will have a very small affect, if any, on the consumer demand for Apple products like the iPhone 5. ChangeWave Research asked 2,297 consumers if they would be “less likely” to purchase an Apple product now that Steve Jobs has retired. Of those surveyed, [...]
Back in 1997 when Steve Jobs first came back to Apple, after he being pushed out in 1985, he clearly explained the wildly successful strategy that progressively pushed the company to regularly compete with big oil company Exxon Mobil as the largest US company in terms of market cap. At a Worldwide Developers Conference that [...]
While others treat Steve Jobs’ retirement as CEO of Apple as a sign his end is near, our outlook is more optimistic. Here are some ideas for how Steve could spend his extra free time.
Yesterday, as you may have heard, Steve Jobs resigned from his CEO post at Apple and handed the the torch over the longtime confidant and former Apple COO, Tim Cook. And now, just a day after these changes took place, we have a glimpse at what’s going on in the offices of Cupertino due to [...]
As people digest the news that Steve Jobs is stepping down as CEO of Apple, the widespread emotion is one of regret and sadness at the loss of this icon. I don’t see it that way. Yes, Jobs is leaving as CEO, but he’s not leaving the company and he’s not entirely leaving his job.
Steve Jobs introduced us to his vision of a post PC world, and yesterday he introduced us to a post Steve Jobs Apple. Within hours of Jobs’ resignation, the stock market responded with a 5% dip in after hours trading, people began to question whether the iPhone 5 would still launch and Apple fans began to [...]
In light of Steve Jobs’ resignation as CEO of Apple Inc., many of you are probably wondering about the implications it might have on the upcoming release of the next iPhone. Let me put this to you in as bluntly as I can possibly put it. Steve Jobs’ resignation as CEO of Apple will have [...]
On news that Apple CEO Steve Jobs has resigned, Apple stock has taken a hit in after hours trading, dropping 5% in just the short time since Apple made Job’s decision public. Investors, afraid of uncertainty and change, are pulling back to see if Apple can survive without Steve Jobs. Up until this announcement, Apple had [...]
By now, you might have heard. Steve Jobs has resigned as the CEO of Apple but is remaining on as Chairman of the Board. His replacement? A man by the name of Tim Cook, who has been Apple’s Chief Operating Officer for seven years and a man that many considered to be the CEO in [...]
In a fairly shocking turn of events, Apple’s Board of Directors has announced that Steve Jobs has resigned as Chief Executive Officer of Apple and that company COO Tim Cook will take his place as the company’s CEO. This will take effect immediately. However, Jobs will stay on with the company as Chairman of the [...]
It only takes a visit to an Apple Store to grasp just how many iconic products the company has produced. From iPhones and iPads to Macs and iPods, their products have owned the digital age like no others. Their vision not only led to enormous wealth for them, but also to a central place in [...]
Just as congress and the president are bickering over raising the federal debt ceiling, news comes from the BBC that Apple has a larger cash reserve than the United States of America (Apple has $76.4 billion, the U.S. has $73.7 billion). So we are going to do what any sensible person looking at these two [...]
We know Steve Jobs isn’t going to be the CEO of Apple forever. Though his black faux turtle neck has become synonymous with Apple product launches, the man has been on medical leave since January and can’t head one of the most powerful companies in the world for the rest of his life. Apparently Apple [...]
While a decent amount happened this week in the world of notebooks, smartphones and tablets; the primary focus was on Apple as the company took to the stage at WWDC to announce iOS 5, iCloud and OS X Lion. There was no iPhone 5 announced, but the new software is already on many devices, including [...]
At WWDC 2011 Phil Schiller took the stage after a brief into by Steve Jobs to announce the huge numbers of OS X users. Schiller said: We now have over 54 million Mac users around the world and growing. That is a big uptick since 2006 which saw an install base just over 20 million [...]
At WWDC 2011 Steve Jobs will return to the stage as Apple’s number one pitchman, selling a nation of eager fans on the latest and greatest products to come out of the Cupertino braintrust like iOS5, iCloud and possibly the iPhone 5. Steve Jobs isn’t your average CEO and pitchman. Jobs’ eccentricities and mannerisms allow him to describe Apple’s [...]
Let’s play a game. You make a statement. Doesn’t matter what it is or what it is about. You make a statement and I bet I can come up with a cynical or negative response about it. Now, extend that to a PR or marketing strategy and I can do the same thing, usually with [...]
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These days whenever someone mentions the word “Tablet” visions of the iPad or something similar dance in their heads. Not that long ago a tablet was something quite different: a Windows-based slate computer. Since the rise of the new idea of the tablet there have been a few Tablet PCs trying for relevance in an [...]
