Steve Jobs wanted to build a wireless carrier. Steve Jobs spoke to wireless industry veteran and venture capital firm Trilogy Chairman John Stanton at length about creating a brand new network based on unused WiFi spectrum, reports Nancy Gohring for Computerworld.
Apparently Jobs wanted to ‘replace the carriers’. “He and I spent a lot of time talking about whether synthetically you could create a carrier using Wi-Fi spectrum,” said Stanton. A letter from Tim Cook on Maps. The New Apple: It Doesn't Just Work. Boycotting Apple Won't Help the Rioting Foxconn Workers Who Built Your iPhone. Here's Apple's e-mail thread about a 7-inch iPad. SAN JOSE, Calif. -- One of the highlights of Apple and Samsung's day in court today was the release of an internal e-mail in which top Apple executives discussed interest in a smaller version of the .
This made up just a very small part of a cross-examination of Scott Forstall, Apple's head of iOS software at Apple, but it was enough to get the attention of just about everyone here. At the heart of it is proof that some of the top executives at Apple were pursuing an alternate, smaller tablet -- something controversial given late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' acerbic, on-the-record comments about smaller tablets following the release of the company's first iPad.
Jobs was known to flip-flop on major ideas, and misdirect about potential business avenues, though his comments about smaller tablets suggested the company would never go that direction.