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South Park poised to roast Steve Jobs and Apple
The Simpsons have done it. Futurama has done it time and time again. And now South Park will make it a trifecta. What are we talking about here? Why making fun of Apple of course. Tomorrow night, the season premiere of the 15th season of South Park will air and it will feature Steve Jobs […]
Continue reading...Hilarious because it’s fake – Video of Steve Jobs practicing his iPhone 5 introduction
Monday, April 25, 2011
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This is an obviously, no-question-about-it fake video purporting to show Steve Jobs practicing the introduction of the iPhone 5.
Continue reading...In Brief: Tim Cook on Steve Jobs and Samsung lawsuit
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
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During Apple’s last earnings conference call, nary a question was asked about Steve Jobs. That was somewhat surprising given the public’s voracious appetite for even a morsel of information regarding Apple’s CEO and co-founder. During today’s earnings conference call, Jobs name did surface and was addressed by COO and interim CEO Tim Cook. Specifically, Cook […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs reads “The Times They Are A-Changin'” by Bob Dylan
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
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An old clip of Steve Jobs reading the lyrics from “The Times They Are A-Changin'” by Dylan. That’s Bob Dylan. The video is from Apple’s 1984 annual shareholders meeting.
Continue reading...Steve Jobs iPhone introduction with Mike Tyson’s Punchout theme music [Video]
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
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We were bored and decided to see what Steve Jobs’ original iPhone introduction would sound like set against the theme music from the NES classic, Mike Tyson’s Punchout. If the iPhone is Mike Tyson, would that make Android Buster Douglas? Or maybe the iPhone is Manny Pacquiao and Android is Floyd Mayweather?? Okay, enough Boxing analogies. Enjoy […]
Continue reading...The design process behind OS X 10.0 and Steve Jobs’ remarkable level of involvement
Friday, April 8, 2011
On March 24, 2001, after years of intense development, Apple publicly released the first version of OS X. OS X, based on the NeXTstep OS Apple acquired from Steve Jobs, marked a radical departure from the UI Mac users had grown accustomed to. There was the dock, the aqua interface, and of course, those red, […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs on passion [Video from 2007 D5 Conference]
Thursday, April 7, 2011
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The following clip is excerpted from the 2007 D5 Conference when Steve Jobs and Bill Gates took the stage to chat with the WSJ’s Walt Mossberg. Below, Jobs talks about the passion necessary to truly achieve success not only in Silicon Valley, but in any avenue of life. People say you have to have a […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt garner high CEO approval ratings, Steve Ballmer and Carol Bartz not so much
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
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An anonymous survey taken by Glassdoor.com recently compared CEO approval ratings in 2011 against approval ratings from 2010.
Continue reading...Steve Jobs to guest star on upcoming 5th season of Mad Men
Friday, April 1, 2011
While AMC and Mad Men creator Matthew Wiener continue to bicker over creative control and actor cuts, season 5 of Mad Men remains on schedule for a 2012 launch. And while it remains to be seen if AMC will get its way and incorporate more commercials and greater product placement, one thing that’s for certain, […]
Continue reading...When Steve Jobs put former Disney CEO Michael Eisner on blast
Thursday, March 24, 2011
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With Steve Jobs now re-elected to the Disney board of directors, we were reminded of the very public spat between Jobs and former Disney CEO Michael Eisner. Back in 2005, a year before Pixar would become a subsidiary of Disney, Eisner lambasted the characters in Pixar films as being “pretty pathetic” measured against those created […]
Continue reading...Disney shareholders re-elect Steve Jobs to Board of Directors
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
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Despite opposition form a group of investors, Disney shareholders voted to re-elect Steve Jobs to the company’s board of directors. A preliminary tally found that 74% of voting investors were in favor of keeping Disney’s entire 12-person board, including Jobs. The advisory group Glass Lewis & Co. recommended investors withhold support for Jobs, citing his […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs says Apple has no plans to kill the iPod Classic
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
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Earlier this week the Guardian published an iPod retrospective of sorts that breifly touched on the current state of the iPod Classic while insinuating that the iconic device may be on its way out. Indeed, the only iPod model that continues to exhibit growth from quarter to quarter is the iPod Touch. At other tables, as […]
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
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