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Mar 9 2010

DF: iPad Stocks, Calculator, Weather, Clock, Voice Memo Apps Scrapped by Steve Jobs

Daring Fireball’s John Gruber suggests that bigger, iPad versions of the built-in iPhone Stocks, Calculator, Weather, Clock and Voice Memo were scrapped by Steve Jobs:

It’s not that Apple couldn’t just create bigger versions [...]


Mar 8 2010

Steve Jobs on Oscars Red Carpet

Likely there to cheer for Up and Pixar, Disney’s largest shareholder (oh, and Apple CEO!) Steve Jobs walks the Oscar red carpet at the Academy Awards.

(No, we don’t know who he was wearing, or if [...]


Mar 7 2010

Steve Jobs Confirms 10 Hour iPad Battery Life… From his iPad

Looks like GCN’s concerns that Apple was overstating iPad battery life in face of IPS display power needs reached Apple CEO Steve Jobs while he was sitting in his chair enjoying his 9.7 magical, revolutionary [...]


Mar 6 2010

Will the iPad Support Tethering? Steve Jobs Answers!

9to5Mac has the full, header’ed exchange between a Swede who emailed Steve Jobs about iPad tethering, and the answer he received from Apple’s CEO.

First, the question from Jezper Söderlund:

Will the wifi-only version [...]


Feb 18 2010

CEOh-Snap: Jobs Calls Flash “Old Technology”, Adobe Calls Apple “Proprietary Lock”

Valleywag claims “people familiar with the meeting” between Steve Jobs and the Wall Street Journal have told them Apple’s CEO once again dismissed Flash as “old technology”, while Bloomberg News reports on Adobe CEO, Shantanu [...]


Feb 5 2010

Apple Requests Google Android Mention Be Removed from App Store Description

Have the gloves officially come off with Apple demanding Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab’s developer remove a mention of Google’s Android from their App Store application’s description? This does come just days after Steve Jobs [...]


Feb 4 2010

Steve Jobs Shows Up in Top Hat to Show off iPad to New York Media Bosses?

Silicon Alley Insider not only says Steve Jobs showed up to show off his new iPad in a secret set of meetings in New York with New York Times and Wall Street Journal bosses, but [...]


Jan 29 2010

Jobs to Mossberg: iBooks Same Price as Amazon, iPad 140hrs to Music, Save iWork Pages as Word Doc

The godfather of tech columnists, Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal, got some face time with Steve Jobs at the iPad launch and Boom Town’s Kara Swisher was there with the shaky cam!

When asked [...]


Jan 25 2010

TC: Steve Jobs says iTablet “Will be the Most Important Thing I’ve Ever Done”

Not much hear besides the title — Steve Jobs says the iTablet/iSlate/iPad “will be the most important thing I’ve ever done” — which TechCrunch says they haven’t heard first hand but have heard second [...]


Jan 21 2010

Apple’s Steve Jobs Dislikes Google’s Eric Schmidt?

Jim Goldman of CNBC claims to have a source that is giving up some goods on the whole Apple and Microsoft teaming up against Google fiasco story:

Microsoft wants part of the iPhone pie as the [...]


Dec 2 2009

Steve Jobs Personally Approves Knocking Live Video Sharing Application

Pointy Heads Software’s Knocking Live Video [Free -iTunes link] is the first official iPhone app capable of streaming live video over 3G and WiFi connections. But getting it approved for the App Store was no [...]


Nov 26 2009

Giving Thanks for Steve Jobs Returning to Apple, Willing iPhone Into Existence

Techcrunch’s Michael Arrington takes the US Thanksgiving holiday to give sweet blog love to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, and everything he’s done for Apple — and for consumers:

What would our world look like [...]


Nov 20 2009

Steve Jobs Tells iPodRip to Change the Name — Not a Big Deal

Steve Jobs sent a curt reply to The Little App Factory, telling them it was not a big deal for them to change their Apple trademark-infringing, iPodRip product name.

Rewind: iPodRip was software designed to [...]


Nov 5 2009

Steve Jobs — CEO of the Decade

Fortune Magazine has named Steve Jobs CEO of the Decade. The Apple co-founder, Apple II, Mac, iPod, iTunes, and iPhone visionary is summed up in suitably dramatic fashion:

Youthful founder gets booted from his [...]


Sep 21 2009

Monday Fun Video: Steve Jobs Intros 2005 Motorola ROKR

My, oh, my how far we’ve come in so few years. Daring Fireball sums it up beautifully:

Hard to believe this was just four years ago. The demo starts around 2:45; the look of [...]


Aug 31 2009

Steve Jobs / Disney - $4 Billion + Marvel = Captain America iPhone?!

Attention true believers! Daring Disney dispenses 4 billion big ones to buyout mighty Marvel, its merry mutants, and stupendous superheroes!

Okay, rewind. To make that most tangential of relationships possible (just so we can blog about [...]


Aug 25 2009

Steve Jobs Locked on iTablet

Since returning to work following a 6-month leave of absence and a liver-transplant, Apple CEO has been locked on delivering the long-rumored, hugely-anticipated (by the blogsphere at least) Apple iTablet, or so says the Wall [...]


Aug 20 2009

Steve Jobs Asked Palm’s Colligan to Stop Stealing Apple Employees?

Did Apple CEO Steve Jobs approach former Palm CEO Ed Colligan back in 2007 with a gentleman’s agreement to stop hiring each other’s employees? (Similar to the agreement allegedly just terminated between Apple and Google?)

Bloomberg, [...]


Aug 10 2009

Is It Time for an Open Letter from Steve Jobs on the App Store?

Let’s just ask it: is it time for an open letter from Steve Jobs concerning the state of the iTunes App Store? Apple’s CEO has written several of these over the course of the last [...]


Jul 30 2009

Steve Jobs Pictured at Apple

TMZ caught Steve Jobs leaving the Apple campus. So now, yes, he’s been captured on film and all gadget perfectionists everywhere can sleep soundly.

So, our take away is that a) Steve Jobs is a [...]