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By John Hiesler: Time and time again, Steve Jobs would turn to COO Tim Cook to assume temporary CEO duties when he was out on medical leave. Not surprisingly, Cook ascended to the CEO position at Apple following Jobs’ death, and given Apple’s share price following that announcement, Wall Street seems quite confident that Cook [...]
Continue reading...75 minute Steve Jobs interview from 1995 [Video]
2. November 2011
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Below is a never before seen video of Steve Jobs taken in 1995. At the time, Jobs was the CEO of NeXT and the prospect of Jobs returning to the Apple wasn’t on anyone’s radar. The interview below was conducted as part of an oral history program tracking the evolution of important figures, events, and companies [...]
Continue reading...When Compaq CEO Ben Rosen emailed Steve Jobs to tell him he was a Mac enthusiast
31. October 2011
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By Luis Estrada: Former Compaq CEO Ben Rosen recently penned an article detailing some of his memories of Steve Jobs. Rosen’s ties to Apple and Jobs date back to the late 70′s, with Rosen subsequently playing a major role in introducing Jobs to Robert H.B. Baldwin of Morgan Stanley when Apple was planning to go [...]
Continue reading...The story behind Steve Jobs’ Mercedez Benz and its missing license plate
27. October 2011
By Josh Rosenthall: One of the famous stories about Steve Jobs is that he used to drive around in a Mercedez Benz sports car with no license plates. What’s more, he was also known to park in Handicap spots on Apple’s Cupertino campus. During a recent interview with Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson, Isaacson said that [...]
Continue reading...The Apple Extended Keyboard – everything Steve Jobs hated about Apple
26. October 2011
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By Sarah Petit: There is no shortage of Steve Jobs anecdotes coming in from former friends and colleagues of the Apple co-founder, but this one from venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson really captures the mindset of Jobs and exemplifies the strategy he used to help bring Apple back from the brink of bankruptcy to technical prominence. [...]
Continue reading...From Chuck D to Coldplay and Neil Diamod, Music luminaries pay tribute to Steve Jobs
25. October 2011
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By Luis Estrada: 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 [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs’ involvement in the design and architecture of Apple retail stores
25. October 2011
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By David Goldman: 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 [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs recounts meeting his biological father without him knowing Jobs was his son
24. October 2011
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By John Hiesler: 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 [...]
Continue reading...Bill Clinton asked Steve Jobs for advice regarding the Monica Lewisnky scandal
23. October 2011
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By David Goldman: 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 [...]
Continue reading...Jony Ive had “more operational power” at Apple than anyone besides Steve Jobs
21. October 2011
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By Josh Rosenthall: 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 [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs promised to “destroy Android”, claims it was a stolen product
21. October 2011
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By John Hiesler: 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 [...]
Continue reading...John Mayer reflects on Steve Jobs, recounts getting a pre-release iPhone
20. October 2011
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By Josh Rosenthall: Apple yesterday held a special event celebrating the life and accomplishments of Steve Jobs on its Cupertino campus. As part of the 3 hour proceeding, and highlighting Jobs’ affinity for music, there were performances by Norah Jones and Coldplay. Looking back at some of the iPod media events Apple has held over [...]
Continue reading...When Dropbox told Steve Jobs that they weren’t for sale
18. October 2011
By Sarah Petit: 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 [...]
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt praises Steve Jobs – “He was always ahead of me”
17. October 2011
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By Josh Rosenthall: 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 [...]
Continue reading...Man catches wife cheating with Apple’s “Find my Friends” app
16. October 2011
By Josh Rosenthall: In conjunction with the release of iOS 5, Apple last week released “Find My Friends”, a new app which enables iPhone users to track the location of friends who have agreed to share their location data with a trusted group of people. When Apple introduced the feature at their iPhone 4S media [...]
Continue reading...Who inspired Steve Jobs? Edwin H. Land, co-founder of Polaroid
13. October 2011
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By Luis Estrada: 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 [...]
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3. November 2011
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