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Tim Cook at Steve Jobs’ grave
Check out this important story from The Onion.
Trailer for parody Steve Job video released
Funny or Die is producing a parody of Steve Jobs’ life. Here is the teaser trailer.
Focus on design
David Kelley co-founded a design company called IDEO in 1991. That firm was engaged by many companies, including Apple, who’s first mouse was designed by IDEO.
Check out this video profile of David Kelley from last night’s 60 Minutes.
Major changes announced at Apple
Tim Cook made some very significant changes at Apple today at the highest management levels. The official announcement is here.
In my view, the departure of Scott Forstall was, in some respects, inevitable. He believed, according to many accounts, that he was the true successor to Steve Jobs. And maybe he should have been.
But the board (presumably taking into account the views of the dying Steve Jobs) selected Tim Cook for the CEO position. Then came the maps fiasco, which was directly within Forstall’s area of responsibility.
One other point: Apple was very shrewd to use a two day shut-down of the stock market to make this announcement.
Related articles
- iOS Head Scott Forstall Out at Apple (technologyreview.com)
- Apple Announces Management Changes: Scott Forstall and John Browett Out, Ive and Others Add Responsibilities (macrumors.com)
- Tim Cook emails employees; thanks Scott Forstall, says Bob Mansfield to stay on for two years (9to5mac.com)
- Biographical details on Apple’s Scott Forstall (seattlepi.com)
Steve Jobs would never…
… have looked at this site.
One year later …
Steve Jobs: Resurrection
Cute parody, via Philip Elmer-DeWitt, with some mild profanity:
And also from Elmer-DeWitt comes this video of a smash-and-grab assault on the Apple Store in Temecula, CA.
More news coverage here.
The latest news on Steve Jobs
Via Wall Street Journal – South Asia:
When Apple Inc AAPL founder Steve Jobs died after a long fight with cancer last year, software engineer Tony Tseung sent an email to a Buddhist group in Thailand to find out what happened to his old boss now that he’s no longer of this world.
This month, Mr. Tseung received his answer. Mr. Jobs has been reincarnated as a celestial warrior-philosopher, the Dhammakaya group said in a special television broadcast, and he’s living in a mystical glass palace hovering above his old office at Apple’s Cupertino, California headquarters.
Steve Jobs in 1983
The Center for Design Innovation has posted a talk by Steve Jobs recorded in 1983 that focuses on his ideas about the future of personal computing. I have never seen this before. Its a good one.
You can listen to the audio below. There is no video of Steve Jobs speaking.
Pretend it is 2005…
In 2005, if you were Steve Jobs, would you have approved the launch of the iPhone? It seems simple now to say yes. But Kontra has detailed the enormous risks and challenges involved and after reading them I think I would likely have declined to launch iPhone.
Read the essay and see for yourself what a bold move Jobs took.
Apple without Steve Jobs
Here are a couple of interesting takes, by Piper Jaffrey analyst Gene Munster and blogger Horace Dediu, on the future of Apple without Steve Jobs.
(via Phillip Elmer-DeWitt)
Disclosure: I am long AAPL.
Tech quote of the day
It’s like we said on the iPad, if you see a stylus, they blew it.
– Steve Jobs, pointing out that a truly effective touch-based device should never need a stylus, which is really a mouse substitute. A stylus divides the functioning of the device unnecessarily, when creative use of touch can avoid the need. The announced Microsoft Surface has a stylus.
Steve Jobs also said this:
Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.
Just look at what the iPad can do sans stylus:
Steve Jobs videos
Steve Jobs spoke 6 times at All Things D conferences. Now Apple and the Wall Street Journal are making high resolution videos of these interviews available through iTunes. If you are interested in the man, you should download the set. Here is an iTunes link to the video collection. If you only want the audio, use this link.
Mike Daisey apologizes
It took him more than a week, but Mike Daisey finally apologizes.
Perversely, he does apologize to virtually everyone, but not to Apple or to Foxconn.