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In 2010, Der Spiegel published a glowing profile of Steve Jobs, then at the helm of Apple. Jobs’s products are venerated in Germany, especially by young bohemian types. Recently, the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg presented an exhibition of Apple’s products, with the grandiloquent subtitle “On Electro-Design that Makes History”—a good indication of the country’s infatuation with the company.
Apple to announce tools, platform to "digitally destroy" textbook publishing
Apple is slated to announce the fruits of its labor on improving the use of technology in education at its special media event on Thursday, January 19. While speculation has so far centered on digital textbooks, sources close to the matter have confirmed to Ars that Apple will announce tools to help create interactive e-books—the "GarageBand for e-books," so to speak—and expand its current platform to distribute them to iPhone and iPad users. Along with the details we were able to gather from our sources, we also spoke to two experts in the field of digital publishing to get a clearer picture of the significance of what Apple is planning to announce.
Kunming, la ville chinoise aux 22 faux magasins Apple - LeMonde.fr
Au début, les autorités de la ville de Kunming, dans le sud de la Chine , ont découvert un faux Apple Store à la fin du mois de juillet. De fil en aiguille, et suite aux plaintes d' Apple China, elles ont poursuivi leur enquête et se sont rendu compte que la ville comptait pas moins de 22 autres faux magasins portant le logo d'Apple. L'histoire a débuté, fin juillet, lorsqu'un Américain vivant à Kunming a raconté sur son blog qu'un faux Apple Store était tellement bien conçu que même ses employés pensaient travailler pour Apple. Les enseignes ont reçu l'ordre ne plus utiliser l'emblème de la société californienne, selon les médias d'Etat chinois.Steve Jobs: The man who polished Apple - Times Online
Britain’s biggest teaching unions have set a collision course with the Government after voting for further industrial action including strikes which could hit schools this summer. The National Union of Teachers will seek a one-day national strike before the end of June, while the NASUWT agreed that intensifying its own campaign was “essential” in the face of a “vicious and unjustified assault on teachers”. Continued industrial action was “the best means of protecting and safeguarding the interests of teachers and state education until the next general election,” said the NASUWT.
Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Apple CEO Steve Jobs speaks during an Apple special event at the company's Cupertino headquarters on Oct. 20. Jobs announced on Jan. 17 that the Apple board has granted him a medical leave of absence. Jeff Yang muses on how Apple managed to beat the tech titans of Japan by playing their game, only better The better part of a month has gone by, and most pundits have already weighed in on this year's CES -- the global gadget extravaganza that makes Las Vegas the gravitational center of the geek universe every January.
How Steve Jobs 'out-Japanned' Japan
Apple is having difficulty meeting demand for the iPhone and the iPad. It is growing both businesses at more than 100% and they make up about 65% of revenues, and 71% of profits . The Mac business is also growing at 2x to 3x the PC industry.
Analysts: Apple’s growth next year to drop to half of what it could obtain during the recession | asymco
INCONVENIENT TRUTH: Your iPhone Was Built, In Part, By 13 Year-Olds Working 16 Hours A Day For $75 A Week
We love our iPhones and iPads. We love the prices of our iPhones and iPads. We love the super-high profit margins of Apple, Inc., the maker of our iPhones and iPads. And that's why it's disconcerting to remember that the low prices of our iPhones and iPads — and the super-high profit margins of Apple — are only possible because our iPhones and iPads are made with labor practices that would be illegal in the United States.
Steve Jobs’s Real Genius : The New Yorker
Based on the biography, Malcolm Gladwell profiles Steve Jobs as a tweaker. Jobs had an amazing ability to take things that had been built or invented or designed already and tweak them into something far better than the original.
Pomme, philosophie et esthétique | Digital-In
Utilisateur régulier des produits Apple avant même que cela ne relève de la béate branchitude collective, c’est un sentiment de circonspection gênée qui m’avait envahi quelques heures après la mort de Steve Jobs . Les mot “génie” et “visionnaire” revenaient alors sans cesse dans la bouche de milliers de marketeurs, consommateurs, hommes politiques ou analystes financiers (ceux-ci ayant perdu depuis longtemps toute notion de mesure concernant un homme qui aura fait fructifier 100 000$ investis en 1997 – date de son retour chez Apple, en une coquette somme de 6,86 millions de dollars en 2011), empressés de rendre un hommage aussi sincère que médiatique à la mémoire d’un homme au mystérieux charisme.