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Intel faces colossal clash - San Jose Mercury News
On October 23, 2001, Apple took a big step in its corporate renaissance with a little device that stored all of 1,000 songs, cost an eyebrow-raising $399, and had more than a few critics chuckling at Steve Jobs' expense. Jobs even seemed to anticipate that skepticism when he introduced the first iPod at a private event in the company's Cupertino, Calif., headquarters. In classic form, he saved the big reveal until the very end of the presentation, pulling out the iPod like a magician showing off the correct card pulled out from a shuffled deck. "Why music?
iPod at 10: A game changer getting long in the tooth | Apple Talk - CNET News
The original iPod, 10 years later: a re-review
Don't look now, but the iPod—yes, the original, less-space-than-a-Nomad iPod—just turned 10 years old. That makes the device older than Facebook, YouTube, Crocs, Vibram FiveFingers, and the Motorola RAZR, to name a few brands and devices that have penetrated general culture over the last decade. But unlike old flip phones and tacky footwear, the iPod's overall design remains iconic and its effect on our consumption of music remains pervasive. It was not the first MP3 player on the market, but it was the one whose industrial and UI design would influence handheld gadgets for far longer than its product lifetime. In fact, it's not hard to argue that the original iPod is still with us. It can be found most obviously in the iPod classic, but its influences are also found in iOS and even third-party smartphones and music players.
A West Coast real estate executive, he had an M.B.A. from a prestigious university and was “a very intellectual, serious man,” said Ms. DiNardo, president of TK/PR, a public relations firm. “I’ve been dealing with him for seven years. All of a sudden, while we’re discussing problems with a vendor, he’s signing off with these smiling or winking faces. I mean, this is a guy who I don’t think I’ve seen with a smile on his actual face.” Ms.
Emoticons Move to the Business World - Cultural Studies - NYTimes.com
“He loved doing things right,” Mr. Jobs said. “He even cared about the look of the parts you couldn’t see.” Mr. Jobs, the brilliant and protean creator whose inventions so utterly transformed the allure of technology, turned those childhood lessons into an all-purpose theory of intelligent design.
‘Steve Jobs’ by Walter Isaacson - Review - NYTimes.com
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were the ultimate frenemies. Read about the roots of their relationship in this exclusive excerpt from Walter Isaacson's new book, Steve Jobs, which hits bookstores today. 1985: The young and the restless. Gates and Jobs, photographed at Tavern on the Green in New York City
When Steve Met Bill: 'It was a kind of weird seduction visit' - Fortune Tech
In the battle for the living room, the ghost of Steve Jobs looms large | ZDNet
We can argue endlessly about when the post-PC era began and how steeply the market for conventional personal computers will decline. But there’s no question that process has begun, and the next battleground is engaged. That war will be fought in the living room—and the den, and the dorm room, and just about any place where people watch movies and TV programs and listen to music. It’s been an open secret for years that Apple will make a play for the living room eventually. Despite Steve Jobs’s protestations that Apple TV was “just a hobby,” a high-definition TV is the inevitable next step in the natural evolution of the Apple ecosystem.
Jobs Told Google’s Page to Cut Bloat to Avoid Becoming Microsoft - Businessweek
Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs urged Google Inc. Chief Executive Officer Larry Page to sharpen the company’s focus and cut products that put it at risk of becoming like Microsoft Corp., according to a biography of Jobs. While Jobs was a vigorous competitor, he also came to view himself as an elder statesman with a responsibility for giving advice to Google’s Page, Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other emerging technology executives, according to “Steve Jobs,” an authorized biography by Walter Isaacson and published by CBS Corp.’s Simon & Schuster.
Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs urged Google Inc. (GOOG) Chief Executive Officer Larry Page to sharpen the company’s focus and cut products that put it at risk of becoming like Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) , according to a biography of Jobs.
Apple’s Cook Won Jobs’s Trust Early: Book - Bloomberg
The deification of Steve Jobs was swift and amazing, an app that rose only in death. Jobs is now America's Princess Diana, a figure of tragedy, representing transformation, Jackie Kennedy being too long-dead to do it, and Michael Jackson too weird. I find this strange, because Jobs's real legacy was the way in which people now routinely ignore each other in public because they are playing with their iPhones and iPads.
The deification of Steve Jobs is Apple's greatest marketing triumph to date | Tanya Gold | Comment is free | The Guardian
The Waldorf method is nearly a century old, but its foothold here among the digerati puts into sharp relief an intensifying debate about the role of computers in education. “I fundamentally reject the notion you need technology aids in grammar school,” said Alan Eagle, 50, whose daughter, Andie, is one of the 196 children at the Waldorf elementary school; his son William, 13, is at the nearby middle school. “The idea that an app on an can better teach my kids to read or do arithmetic, that’s ridiculous.” Mr.
At Waldorf School in Silicon Valley, Technology Can Wait - NYTimes.com
The European: A computer “is a simple mind having a will but capable of only two ideas”, you have said.Does it make sense to think of a technical apparatus in biological terms? Dyson: The quote comes from an illustration of a circuit diagram that Lewis Fry Richardson produced in 1930. It was a very prophetic idea, like most of the stuff that Richardson did.
Information Is Cheap, Meaning Is Expensive | The European Magazine
This is my first trip to Moscow, and Yuri Milner, the world’s most successful investor in social media, is taking me to his parents’ apartment, which he bills as a typical middle-class Moscow dwelling. It’s drab Soviet brick outside. The none-too-reliable-looking elevator is encircled by a crumbling staircase. But inside, the apartment is genteel and highly recognizable to me.