Image via CrunchBase [People] don’t want a computer on their TV. They have computers. They go to their wide-screen TVs for entertainment. Not to have another computer. This is a hard one for people in the computer industry to understand, but it’s really easy for consumers to understand. They get it. – Apple CEO Steve [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Steve Jobs’
Tech quote of the day
Posted: 1st September 2010 by Brant in biz, techTags: Apple, Apple TV, entertainment, Google, iPod, Mac Mini, Steve Jobs, Television
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Check out this video. When it was shot in 1997, shortly after Jobs’ return to Apple, Apple stock (split adjusted) was selling for $4. I didn’t know that Steve Jobs ever gave a presentation wearing shorts. But it shows his talent for marketing and focusing on the simple and direct. (via All Things D) Here [...]
What is going on with LaPorte?
Posted: 31st July 2010 by Brant in culture, techTags: LaPorte, Steve Jobs
Leo LaPorte is a long time tech journalist, doing everything from radio shows, TV shows, and now a full Internet-based network, TWIT, devoted to tech. Lately, he has been very displeased with Apple and Steve Jobs. Now, as shown in the video below, he seems to have accused Jobs of having some kind of interest [...]
Who is the smartest CEO in tech? (update)
Posted: 9th July 2010 by Brant in biz, techTags: Apple, Jonathan Ive, magazines, media, Steve Jobs
No, its not Michael Dell or Steve Balmer. According to Fortune, it is some guy called Steve Jobs. Update: And they named Jonathan Ive, Apple’s chief product designer, as the smartest designer.
iPhone “death grip” antenna fix on the way? (updated x2)
Posted: 26th June 2010 by Brant in techTags: Apple, Fake Steve, iPhone, Pogue, Steve Jobs
Yes. According to Apple Insider. Meanwhile, the problem seems to have been massively overstated. David Pogue has a thorough review of the situation over at the New York Times. I’ve asked Apple about the problem three times, and nobody’s gotten back to me, but the company did issue a statement: “Gripping any phone will result [...]
Video of iPhone 4 launch event
Posted: 8th June 2010 by Brant in biz, techTags: Apple, iPhone, Steve Jobs
Apple has posted the full streaming video from yesterday’s event launching iPhone.
The full video Steve Jobs interview at the WSJ’s D8 conference.
Apple v Google: this means war, but what else?
Posted: 22nd May 2010 by Brant in techTags: Apple, Eric Schmidt, Google, Steve Jobs
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Apple and Google are mortal enemies now. John Gruber at Daring Fireball makes the case perfectly, noting that such “war” leaves out Microsoft, pushing the latter into a state of irrelevance to the future.. But one wrinkle that I am left wondering about is the behavior of Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO. Since war is now the [...]
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Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini, who formerly worked at Apple during the development of the original Macintosh, offers an excellent overview of the process used by Steve Jobs to create one hit product after another. Excerpt: Probably the strongest character trait of Steve Jobs is his absolute lack of fear. While every other CEO in America, it [...]
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Are you nuts? – Steve Jobs, responding in email to questioning from a Swiss resident about Apple’s decision to delay the international launch of the iPad.
Dan Lyons on the iPad (updated)
Posted: 28th March 2010 by Brant in biz, culture, techTags: Apple, Dan Lyons, Internet, iPad, media, Steve Jobs
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Dan Lyons is well-known in tech circles as being Fake Steve Jobs. But he is also a technology reporter, and offers his personal take on the impact of the iPad in the current issue of Newsweek. I would note that he had a much more negative view at the launch event in January. Perhaps more [...]
Jobs and Schmidt over coffee
Posted: 26th March 2010 by Brant in biz, techTags: Apple, Google, Steve Jobs
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It seems to be all over the web that Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google) are at war. Today, apparently, they met for coffee, in public, with photographers around. Of course, given mobil devices these days, where *aren’t* photographers around?
Apple v. Google: this time its personal
Posted: 14th March 2010 by Brant in biz, techTags: Apple, Eric Schmidt, Google, Steve Jobs
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Apple and Google have worked together in the past, and Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, even sat on Apple’s board of directors. But, as reported in today’s New York Times, Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt are now at odds. Mainly the fight is over the direction of mobile computing. Apple’s approach is a controlled hardware/software platform [...]
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Featuring none other than Steve Jobs.
iTunes winner gets a call from Steve Jobs
Posted: 27th February 2010 by Brant in politicsTags: Apple, iTunes, Steve Jobs
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The winner of the $10,000 iTunes gift card (received for downloading the 10 Billions song from iTunes) got a personal call from Steve Jobs. The winner didn’t believe it, at first. When Steve Jobs personally called Woodstock, Georgia native Louie Sulcer to tell him he’d won Apple’s iTunes Store 10 Billion Song Sold contest, Sulcer [...]