May 21 2012

A roundup of articles about Steve Jobs

A roundup of Steve Jobs’s stories

Meet Ethan Imboden: The Steve Jobs Of Sex Toys [NSFW] [VIDEO]
Meet Ethan Imboden, the Steve Jobs of Sex Toys. Imboden, a forty year old designer with degrees in industrial design and electrical engineering from John Hopkins and Pratt, has decided, through his sex toy company JimmyJane, to bring the same sense of …

3G Support for FaceTime Revealed in iOS Warning Messages
Basically, FaceTime makes the high-quality video chat easy to initiate and use over the Internet. However, the company has issues of trying the feature work across Network Address Translation boundaries. According to late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, …

iPhone 5 Redesign With Enlarged Display Tailored by Jobs
A Bloomberg report states that Steve Jobs had a major hand in designing the iPhone 5, which will sport a larger 4-inch display. As the week draws to a close, a new slew of rumors and reports concerning the latest iteration of Apple’s best-selling …

Mercury News wins 26 Peninsula Press Club awards
Visionary,” about the late Steve Jobs, by Bruce Newman, took third. In the sports story category, “At peace now,” by Mark Emmons, took first, “Thanks for the memories” by Jon Wilner and Elliott Almond took second and “Will they huddle again?

 

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Feb 23 2012

Why Ron Wayne quit Apple after only 12 days, in his own words

Ron Wayne, the third and often forgotten Apple founder, took to Facebook recently to explain a little bit more about his decision to leave the Apple partnership with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak after only 12 days:

I didn’t separate myself from Apple because of any lack of enthusiasm for the concept of computer products. Aside from any immediate apprehension in regard to financial risks, I left because I didn’t feel that this new enterprise would be the working environment that I saw for myself, essentially for the rest of my days. I had every belief would be successful but I didn’t know when, what I’d have to give up or sacrifice to get there, or how long it would take to achieve that success.

You can see the whole Facebook post here or read the story about this post at The Next Web.

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Jan 9 2012

5 Years ago today Steve Jobs introduced the end of smartphones as we knew it

Five Years ago Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone at Macworld 2007. Although the other smartphone manufacturers didn’t know it, they were about to become obsolete. It took six months for the iPhone to actually be released (June 29, 2007). From that day forward, the smartphone market was never the same.

Who were the major players in the smartphone market when the iPhone was introduced in January 2007?

Name: Nokia
What happened: killed its operating system (Symbian) and chose to use Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.

Name: Palm
What happened: killed the Palm OS, created the WebOS, almost went out of business. WebOS is now the Rasputin of smartphone operating systems — stabbed many times, may not be completely dead.

Name: Microsoft
What happened: Killed by Microsoft in favor of Windows Phone 7.

Name: BlackBerry
What happened: RIM’s BlackBerry is still alive but troubled and coming off a year when each quarter’s earnings release dropped the company to a new low. Although a lot of people (particular in enterprise) still use BlackBerry, the platform feels like its days are numbered.

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Dec 30 2011

Steve Jobs and the Ghostbusters

Apple, according to The Next Web, had a practice of starting it sales meeting with some type of motivational video. In 1984, an obvious source of material was the Ghostbuster’s movie. So, Steve Jobs and company were treated to Blue Busters, a spoof of Ghostbusters but focused on Apple killing the ghost created by big brother IBM in the 1984 video which you can watch below.

According to The Next Web, YouTube user MajorKahuna commented that he was actually at the event:

I was there in Oct. 1984. This was not an internal ad. I was a 1984 state of the art multimedia slide show with audio by Ray Parker Jr. who sang the original. There were also live dancers on the stage.
This was the opening presentation of the International Sales Meeting that introduced the Lightwriter later renamed Laserwriter.
Apple always used a current movie as a them for the sales meetings. in 1985 it was Back to the Future.

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Dec 28 2011

Scott McNealy on the Secret of Steve Jobs success

According to Sun Microsystems Founder Scott McNealy:

What Steve Jobs understood was that he was more like Calvin Klein than he was like Andy Bechtolsheim.

Source: GigaOM

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Dec 27 2011

Is Amazon the Next Apple?

The question is interesting not so much because I think Amazon is going to be the next Apple but because Amazon is the most Apple-like of the many rivals.

Forbes asked the question and provided some analysis in its recent article “Is Amazon the next Apple?” one of primary similarities between Amazon and Apple is CEOs is Jeff Bezos and the late Steve Jobs. Both men were founders of their companies and maintained tight control over their companies.

The Forbes’s article discusses some other similarities and is an interesting read.

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Dec 26 2011

1976 Letter from Potential Partner Calls Steve Jobs a ‘Joker’

Confirming what several people have probably thought or said, this guy who was considering doing business with Steve Jobs in 1976, labeled him a “Joker.”

Source: Mashable

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Dec 25 2011

Merry Christmas

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Dec 24 2011

Steve Jobs advice to Google’s Larry Page

When Larry Page realized he going to become the CEO of Google, he sought out arguably the most successful CEO of the last 50 years: Steve Jobs. Page had always been a fan of Apple. The problem was that by this point in 2010 the relationship between Google and Apple had become toxic. In considering Jobs was inclined not to talk with him, but ended up agreeing to meet with Page. What did Steve Jobs tell Larry Page:

Figure out what Google wants to be when it grows up. It’s now all over the map. What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft.

Source: The Fiscal Times

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Dec 23 2011

Steve Jobs honored by Hungarian software company with bronze statue

Of all the tributes to Steve Jobs following his October death, Architectural software maker Graphisoft has one of most unique – The Hungarian company has unveiled a nearly 7-foot tall statue of Jobs on its campus a couple of day ago.

Copyright: Szabolcs Dudás

The statute was commissioned by the company’s founder and chairman, Gabor Bojar, who said in an Apple Insider story “With its attention to excellence in every detail, Graphisoft Park’s environment embodies the spirit of Steve Jobs,” “I can’t think of a better place to commemorate the man and his legacy.”

The nearly 7-foot-tall bronze statue was crafted by Hungarian sculptor Erno Toth.

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