Tag Archives: Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs (Right) and Steve Wozniak (Via Webgle)

Tim Cook remembering Steve Jobs

Leave a reply

Steve Jobs (Right) and Steve Wozniak (Via Webgle)

A year ago today, Steve Jobs passed away. Jobs, the co-founder and former CEO of Apple, is remembered in this video featuring Steve Jobs. The video took-over Apple’s website.

A message from Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO.

Steve’s passing one year ago today was a sad and difficult time for all of us. I hope that today everyone will reflect on his extraordinary life and the many ways he made the world a better place.

One of the greatest gifts Steve gave to the world is Apple. No company has ever inspired such creativity or set such high standards for itself. Our values originated from Steve and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple. We share the great privilege and responsibility of carrying his legacy into the future.

I’m incredibly proud of the work we are doing, delivering products that our customers love and dreaming up new ones that will delight them down the road. It’s a wonderful tribute to Steve’s memory and everything he stood for.

- Tim

 

About these ads
tim_cook_apple

Apple: “Sorry… is that a typo?”

Leave a reply

Image via All Things D

When I saw Apple’s profits for Q1 of 2012, my eyes nearly popped out of my head. But, it was the Quarter that the iPhone 4S was released, and of course Christmas Shopping as well. And maybe purchases because ‘This was Steve Jobs’ last product” (Which, by the way is incorrect).

So how much did they make in revenue? $46.33 Billion. What about in Profits? $13.06 billion. 

“We’re thrilled with our outstanding results and record-breaking sales of iPhones, iPads, and Macs,” Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, said in a statement. “Apple’s momentum is incredibly strong, and we have some amazing new products in the pipeline.”

Today, Apple shares are apr. $402/share.

These are excellent results for Apple. Congratulation Apple! And Google, Microsoft… Best of luck!

Apple’s founding documents to go on auction

1 Reply

Image via Engadget

The founding papers from Apple are going to be on auction and are expected to bring in a whopping $150K. The papers are signed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. The auction is planed to be on December 13th, 2011 at Sotheby’s.

Do you think these papers are actually worth $150K?

UPDATE: Thanks to Jennifer in the comments we have some more photos of the Documents.

 

What can Apple do? A series on how Jobs’ passing may affect the company. Part 2: Was George Orwell right about 1984?

Leave a reply
Image representing Jonathan Ive as depicted in...

Jonathan Ive; Image via CrunchBase

He [Jobs] will go through a process of looking at my ideas and say, ‘That’s no good. That’s not very good. I like that one,’”… “And later I will be sitting in the audience and he will be talking about it as if it was his idea. I pay maniacal attention to where an idea comes from, and I even keep notebooks filled with my ideas. So it hurts when he takes credit for one of my designs.”

-Jonathan Ive

Jonathan Ive is the chief industrial engineer for Apple. Steve Jobs is often always given complete credit for example, the iPad, and the iMac. Yes, it may have been his idea (for some), but was it his design? Likely not. Did he come up with how it would work? Likely not. Did he take all the credit? In many cases, yes.

“That makes us vulnerable as a company,” Ive told Walter Issacson for his biography of Steve Jobs. “In so many other companies, ideas and great design get lost in the process,” … “The ideas that come from me and my team would have been completely irrelevant, nowhere, if Steve hadn’t been here to push us, work with us, and drive through all the resistance to turn our ideas into products.”

Was Apple’s TV even Jobs’ idea?

Certainly Jobs’ would have-or maybe already did contribute a lot of ideas to this TV. If he didn’t this could be one of the first new products that Jobs’ didn’t have any say in for years.

Apple will most definitely have a hard time running without Steve. No one to yell at them, no one to tell them in most seriousness ‘I can make business out of this’ or ‘yes, this is the future’. Just Tim.

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Image by dalcrose via Flickr

Tim Cook.

But Tim still has Apple’s not-so-secret weapon, Jonathan Ive. Microsoft and Google may soon begin to have an advantage (within 5 years), eventually Apple may again fall. Apple fell last time while at it’s highest. They have defeated ExonMobil in the NASDAQ.

Will Apple fall within the next 5 years? Can Apple make it now with only Jonathan Ive, no Jobs’? “Was George Orwell right about 1984?”

Make your predictions now… before it’s to late.

REVIEW: Pirates of Silicon Valley

Leave a reply
Cover of "Pirates of Silicon Valley"

Cover of Pirates of Silicon Valley

Pirates of Silicon Valley is a 1999 film about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. It is an amazing film that goes right up until Steve Jobs was fired from Apple Computers. It is based on the novel “Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer”.

I have watched this movie about 5 times in 3 days. It is such a great movie. I found out about this movie from Leo Laporte, who was talking about this during a discussion about Steve Jobs’ death. It is such an old movie (well, not that old just 1999), that the whole thing went on YouTube, without being taken down for Copyright Violations.

Steve Jobs is played very well by Noah Wyle, who sounds almost just like Jobs did. Anothony Micheal Hall plays Bill Gates, he almost sound like the real Gates. They are such great actors!

The movie starts off with the filming of the famous 1984 Macintosh Commercial. The commercial of course, was based off the book Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, with IBM as Big Brother. (You can watch the commercial here.)

I don’t want to spoil to much of the film, but it really does go into much depth. You can watch the entire movie below. (It is not on iTunes, and it is very hard to find on DVD so…..)

What are your thoughts on the movie? Do you think a sequel should be made? Leave a comment below.

iPhone 4S has landed…

3 Replies

The White iPhone 4S (Via Apple)

Even without their leader, they have presented a masterpiece.

The iPhone 4S is now on sale, but only if you got it within the first few hours of pre-ordering. Let’s go through some of the Tech Specs (From the Apple Canada Website).

  • The iPhone 4S is available in White and Black again
  • 9.3mm thick (or thin, whichever you would consider it)
  • Same size screen (We were hoping for a larger screen)
  • The Camera has been upgraded to 8 MegaPixels, and people have been saying that it’s fantastic
  • 1080p Video, with 30 frames/second
  • Video Stabilization
  • People have been complaining about battery life.
  • iOS 5
Let’s go through some features in iOS 5 (on the iPhone 4S).
  • Support for iCloud
  1. Wifi Syncing
  2. PC Free (Cut-The-Cord!)
  3. Free Back up (Up to 5GB, but you can pay for more space)
  • iMessage
  • Newstand
  • New Notification System
  • Reminders
  • Twitter-Integration
  • Siri (Still in BETA)
Siri is one of the biggest (and best) upgrades. Here’s the catch… It is only available on iPhone 4S. But many believe that it will be available in a future iOS update (Maybe iOS 5.1?).
What are your personal thoughts on iPhone 4S? Have you bought the new phone? Will you wait for iPhone 5?

#iSad RIP Steve

Leave a reply
Think Different Series

Image by ebyryan via Flickr

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma–which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

-Steve Jobs

The Opinion of Kyle Stewart- Steven Paul Jobs passed away on October 5th, 2011 at age 56.

On October 4th, 2011 Tim Cook; CEO of Apple (Read article on Steve Jobs’ Resignation) announced the iPhone 4S (Many people calling it the iPhone 4Steve) and a new iPod Nano and iPod Touch. Also iCloud, and Siri.

He passed away seven years after being diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer.

Steve. Via ABC

I found out Steve Jobs died (on Facebook, confirmed by CNET followed by TWiT)  at about 8PM, and watched the TWiT Live  Coverage until about Midnight.

He only thought about Apple, even when he was gone at NeXT and Pixar, he only thought about Apple.

Leo Laporte

Since his passing, he has been compared to people like Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell, Bill Hewlett, Andy Grove, Walt Disney, Louis Gerstner and Thomas Edison.

Now, many different opinions are flying around about Apple’s future. Some believe it will be fine, but some think it will only go down from here. My personal opinion is that it will be fine for the next few years, because everything has Jobs’ approval, but soon, we will start to lose ‘The Jobs Touch’.  And that is what made Apple succeed.

If you would like to share your thoughts, memories, and condolences, please email rememberingsteve@apple.com.

Below, is an emotional video based on a Think Different Advertisement done by Apple. The first video is the original Apple Ad. The second one, is the most emotional, and is about Steve Jobs.

One more thing…

You will be missed. Rest in Peace.

Further Reading and Sources:

Steve Jobs (Right) and Steve Wozniak (Via Webgle)

Steve Jobs resigns as CEO for Apple Inc.

1 Reply
Steve Jobs shows off iPhone 4 at the 2010 Worl...

Image via Wikipedia

Apple started in 1976 with one idea… to think different. Apple Computers (now Apple Inc.) was founded by Ronald Wayne, Steve Wozniak and the most well known of all Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs would stay with Apple until he was forced to leave in 1985. Many believe this caused the fall of Apple from then to his return in 1997 when he would return as CEO.

With Steve Jobs, Apple had it’s biggest hits… the iPod, the Macbook lines, the Apple TV, the iMac, the iPhone, the iPad and many more. Also the first Apple Store opened in 2001, with the return of Jobs. After 10 years, there are now more then 300 stores worldwide. Including 20 in Canada.

The Steve Jobs era (Via CNET)

On Wednesday, August 24th Steve Jobs announced that he would be resigning as CEO of Apple.

“It’s a sad day, it’s a terrible day for technology,” said Leander Kahney, from Cult of Mac. “His contribution to culture is massive…He’s had such a massive impact on everyone’s lives. The products he’s pioneered have become as big as the telephone, the car. We’re all nerds now…No one can touch him, not even [Bill] Gates.”

It was announced in Apple’s Press Release that Tim Cook would be replacing Jobs as CEO of Apple. Tim Cook filled in for Jobs during his Sick Leave this year and during his Sick Leave in 2009. To read more about Steve Jobs’ health click here.

Jobs is now only the Chairman of the Board of Directors for Apple. 

To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

Steve Jobs (Right) and Steve Wozniak (Via Webgle)

I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.

As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.

I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.

I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.

Steve

I end this article with two words.

Think Different.

Further Reading and Sources: