Tag Archives: Steve Jobs
Apple Seeds: A Jet is Named After Steve Jobs, U.S. Tablet Ownership Doubles Over Holiday S...
Apple Seeds is iSource’s daily roundup of Apple-related stories for the most diehard of fans, or for the news junkie that has to have all of the day’s news: Virgin America Names One of Their Jets After Steve Jobs Here’s something kinda cool: Virgin America has named one of their …
Apple Seeds: iTunes Match Available in 19 New Countries, Steve Jobs Figurine Canceled, Det...
Apple Seeds is iSource’s daily roundup of Apple-related stories for the most diehard of fans, or for the news junkie that has to have all of the day’s news: iTunes Match Launches in 19 New Countries iTunes Match has launched in 19 new countries this week. This brings the total …
Five Years Ago Today …
Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone at Macworld – on January 9, 2007. I was very, very ill at the time, but I can still vividly remember how excited I was leading up to this event, and even more so once the iPhone was unveiled. Here are some of my recollections …
Apple Bearing Down on Company Producing Steve Jobs Figurines
Here’s a weird one. The Telegraph is reporting that Apple is threatening legal action against In Icons, a Hong Kong-based company, for their creation of a realistic Steve Jobs figurine. This figurine, which In Icons is currently taking preorders for, is slated to launch next month, is twelve inches in …
Apple Set to Introduce Next-Generation iPad on February 24th, Steve Jobs’ Birthday?
9to5Mac has dug up a report from FocusTaiwan which claims that Apple is pushing their manufacturing partners to meet deadlines that would allow for Apple to introduce the next-generation iPad on February 24th, Steve Jobs’ birthday. Specifically, the report notes that Apple’s manufacturing partners employees will have limited time off …
Computer History Museum Launches Online Exhibit Honoring Steve Jobs
The Computer History Museum has launched an online exhibit honoring the life and work of Steve Jobs. The exhibit outlines Job’s life starting with the Homebrew Computer Club and follows his career right up to the introduction of the iPad. The exhibit is split into three parts: “First, Next, and …
US Patent Office Museum Opens Exhibit Honoring Steve Jobs
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has opened an exhibit honoring the life and work of Steve Jobs. This exhibit is on display in the atrium of the Patent museum in the Madison Building in Alexandria, Virginia. The exhibit is made up of 30 panels designed to resemble iPhones. The …
Steve Jobs Hoped to Use an Unlicensed Wi-Fi Spectrum for an Apple Mobile Phone Network
IDG News Service is reporting on comments made by John Stanton, a venture capitalist, who claimed that Steve Jobs was looking into the possibility of using unlicensed Wi-Fi spectrums to set up their own mobile phone network. This was being investigated ahead of the original iPhone’s debut, and needless to …
Highly Recommended: A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs
Mona Simpson’s (Steve Jobs’ sister) eulogy for here brother, published in The New York Times is beautiful and very moving. I’ve been reading the authorized Jobs biography and so far there is a lot about his passion, his ability to drive people to make ‘insanely great’ products, and his tendency …
Are You Reading the Authorized Steve Jobs Biography?
If you’re visiting this site with any sort of frequency, I’m guessing you’re at least a little bit of an Apple fan. Maybe a fan of just one Apple device, perhaps a fan of many of them. I’m also guessing that a fair percentage of you are more than a …
Apple Designed to Give Jony Ive Complete Operational Freedom
As more and more of us chew through the newly released Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson, one new revelation has caught the media’s attention. That is, Apple’s head of design, Jony Ive, has almost complete freedom to do as he sees fit, and Jobs saw to it that is …
