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Dan Lyons gets paid to write for Newsweek?! Pt. III
Newsweek columnist Dan Lyons is up to his old tricks again with a new article about Apple that is more about tabloid-esque personal attacks against Steve Jobs than actual substantive reporting. I’m not a tech-industry insider, so I can’t shed any light on why Dan Lyons seems to have a personal vendetta against Steve Jobs, […]
Continue reading...What’s behind a Phil Schiller keynote? Joy of Tech fills us in…
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Check out this great piece of satire by the talented folks over at JoyOfTech which gives us a sneak peek at what’s going on behind the scenes in preparation for Phil Schiller’s upcoming keynote. You gotta love Jobs sitting on a throne below the mainstage as lions circle around. Also great is the hell that […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs admits hormone imbalance, will remain CEO
Monday, January 5, 2009
Steve Jobs, in a letter today posted on Apple’s website, shed some light on the reason behind is visible weight loss during the past few months: Dear Apple Community, For the first time in a decade, I’m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for a Macworld keynote. Unfortunately, […]
Continue reading...What it’s like to work at Apple
Friday, January 2, 2009
A great piece from the Guardian today by former and longtime Apple employee Chuq von Rospach about his 17 years working in Cupertino. A rational explanation for Apple leaving Macworld: The fact is, MacWorld causes all sorts of problems for Apple’s workers, and is an expensive proposition for the company to be ready for. It usually […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs is fine says Jim Goldman of CNBC
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
In response to Gizmodo’s rumor about the health of Steve Jobs, Jim Goldman of CNBC writes: I spoke to Apple after these headlines crossed and the company, which officially doesn’t comment on rumors, reiterated the reasons it offered two weeks ago: Apple was pulling out of Macworld because the company didn’t see the need to […]
Continue reading...Kevin Rose sells all of his Apple Stock citing health of Steve Jobs
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Digg founder Kevin Rose announced on his twitter page that he just sold all of his shares in Apple stock due to rumors of Jobs failing health. Wow. This rumor about Steve Jobs health from Gizmodo sure is getting a lot of traction. It’s already been picked up by some more mainstream news outlets, and it […]
Continue reading...Rumor: Steve Jobs’ declining health one of the reasons Apple pulled out of MacWorld? We call B.S
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Normally we don’t publish sensationalist rumors about the health of Steve Jobs, but Gizmodo is reporting that one of their solid sources has told them that Apple hasn’t been 100% forthcoming as to why Jobs isn’t speaking at the keynote this year. Steves health is rapidly declining. Apple is choosing to remove the hype factor […]
Continue reading...Survey: Steve Jobs has second highest approval rating for CEO’s
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Glassdoor.com is a website that lets employees anonymously complain about or lavish praise upon their company and C.E.O, and in its most recent survey for 2008, the site found that Steve Jobs had a 90% approval rating as the C.E.O of Apple, coming in second place behind Arthur D. Levinson, the C.E.O of a biotech […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs invites over some Superheroes for a Holiday Dinner
Monday, December 22, 2008
Why isn’t Steve Jobs speaking at Macworld? Because he’s recuperating from a dinner party he threw last week..
Continue reading...‘Wired’ writes a vapid article about Steve Jobs stepping down from Macworld
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Brian Chen of Wired recently wrote an absurdly alarmist and strikingly unthoughtful article about Steve Jobs’ absence from Macworld. I don’t normally call out writers I disagree with because we’re all entitled to our opinions. But when a big time writer for a site like Wired haphazardly throws together an article that lacks any semblance […]
Continue reading...Unboxing a ‘NeXT Cube’
Friday, December 19, 2008
Check out this video of an unboxing of an original NeXT Cube. Computer packaging sure has come a long way! The NeXT Cube was a beast of a machine in terms of processing power, but its high price tag is what ultimately did it in. via GrowSmartBlog
Continue reading...Analyst downgrades Apple Stock and withholds price target until he gets more information about Jobs’ health
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
CNN reports that an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. not only downgraded Apple’s stock, but is withholding a price target for the stock until he finds out more information about the health of Steve Jobs. This sums up to a tee why Apple made the right move in leaving Macworld, and why Steve Jobs astutley […]
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Sunday, January 11, 2009
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