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Boy Genius Report steadfastly maintains that recent Steve Jobs email was real, claims Apple PR is lying
The controversy surrounding Steve Jobs’ most recent email has taken on a life of its own. If you recall, Boy Genius Report recently published an email exchange involving Jobs and an angry iPhone 4 owner. The angry iPhone 4 owner (some doofus named Jason Burford) was particularly obnoxious, and ultimately prompted Steve Jobs to write […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs: “Relax… It is just a phone. Not worth it”
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Update x3: BGR apparently got taken for a ride. Fortune reported just minutes ago that Apple PR has emphatically denied that the following exchange took place. So to be clear, none of the statements below can be attributed to Jobs. Who to blame? Jason Bufford, the ass who shopped the false story around. Well this […]
Continue reading...New Steve Jobs email on iPhone 4 reception issues – “Stay Tuned”
Sunday, June 27, 2010
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Unfortunately for Apple, the reception and signal issues associated with the iPhone 4 have become the larger talking points of the device in the wake of its release. Since then we’ve heard Steve Jobs tell users how they should hold their own phones, while also hearing rumors that the problem might be rectified with a […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs on iPhone 4 antenna/reception problems – “Just don’t hold it that way”
Thursday, June 24, 2010
The antenna problems associated with the iPhone 4 have resulted in an unusual turn of events. In case you’re new to the story, many iPhone 4 owners are reporting that the device loses signal strength when you touch the left side of the phone while simultaneously touching the phone’s bottom left corner. This problem doesn’t […]
Continue reading...When an Apple fan runs into Steve Jobs [Video]
Thursday, June 24, 2010
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Earlier this week, a fellow named Hunter Pearson dragged both his mother and sister on a “geek excursion” to Apple’s HQ at 1 Infinite Loop. After spending some cash at Apple’s Company Store, Pearson spotted Steve Jobs talking with what he presumed was an Apple employee. Being a self-professed Apple fanatic, Pearson whipped out his Flip cam and […]
Continue reading...Full-length Steve Jobs interview from D8 conference now available on iTunes
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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A few weeks ago, on Tuesday June 1 to be exact, Steve Jobs helped kick off the D8 conference when he took the stage with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher of the Wall Street Journal. During an engaging 45+ minute conversation, Jobs explained the origins of the iPhone, his takeon the iPhone/Gizmodo ordeal, questionable iPhone […]
Continue reading...Does Steve Jobs actually love buttons?
Monday, June 21, 2010
When Jobs first unveiled Apple’s white Front Row remote control in 2005, he used a Keynote slide to compare it to a large remote with well over 40 buttons. “I don’t know that there’s ever been a slide that captures what Apple’s about as much as this one,” Jobs quipped. You can make a strong […]
Continue reading...Jobs on Apple surpassing Microsoft in Market Cap
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Steve Jobs, keeping things in perspective, on Apple surpassing Microsoft in Market Cap a few weeks ago. “It doesn’t matter very much. It’s not what’s important. It’s not what makes you come to work in the morning…It is a little surreal.”
Continue reading...iPad developer mugged at WWDC, gets brand new iPad along with a letter from Steve Jobs
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
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Not too long ago, Apple sent out a WWDC invite to a Chinese iOS developer named Stone, an individual who works for Tencent, the development house behind China’s most popular IM software, QQ. Being that it was WWDC and all, not to mention the long ass flight from Shenzhen, Stone decided to bring along his […]
Continue reading...Heckler screams “Verizon!” as Steve Jobs experiences network troubles
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
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During Monday’s WWDC Keynote, Steve Jobs’ iPhone 4 demo hit a few bumps in the road when network trouble arose. When Jobs asked his right-hand man Scott Forstall if had any ideas how to fix it, a brazen young fellow shouted out, “Verizon!” Though Jobs would soon retort that they were on wi-fi, he couldn’t help […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs lists top 3 reasons apps get rejected from iTunes
Monday, June 7, 2010
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Steve Jobs on the iTunes app store: The second platform we support is the App Store. It’s a curated platform with 225,000 apps. It’s a vibrant community — there’s nowhere else you can find this many apps. We get about 15k apps submitted every week. They come in up to 30 different languages. Guess what: […]
Continue reading...When AOL CEO Steve Case thought about acquiring Apple and putting Steve Jobs in charge
Sunday, June 6, 2010
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Former AOL/Time Warner CEO Steve Case described to Kara Swisher of All Things D how he floated the idea of AOL purchasing Apple back in 2002 when We had a board meeting, I think in 2002, we had a strategy session.. and one of the suggestions I made was that we acquire Apple and put […]
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Sunday, July 4, 2010
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