Tag: STEVEJOBS

So some guy named Steve Jobs got up on stage at something called the WWDC yesterday and talked about some products from a company called...orange or banana? Or was it carrot. Oh, Apple, that's right. It was long. And sometimes boring. So thanks to Mahalo Daily, here it is in Sixty Seconds. Did we get our iPhone with iRobot and iHateMakingMyOwnCoffee? We do get Exchange integration and now we're ...

So you can't find time in your day to watch the 90 minute Steve Jobs Keynote that took place yesterday, even though you live and breathe Apple? Is your computer in the manager's line of sight, so you can't even watch it at work? Mahalo Daily has got you covered: they've managed to shoehorn the Steve Jobs Keynote into 60 seconds. No, this isn't some fancy new video compression; let's just call it ...

The buttonless iPhone, and the sleek styling of other apple products, has taken the Wall Street Journal to musing, "What's Steve's Beef about buttons." According to the article, Jobs' blood-lust for buttons goes back further than you might imagine. "Mr. Jobs was adamant that the keyboard for the original Macintosh not include "up," "down," "right" and "left" keys that allow users to move the ...

Few companies inspire such wicked fanboy love as does Apple, and few have such creative 'haters'. Here's two things we've stumbled on just today that illustrate the Apple love that's flying 'round in the lead up to the iPhone. First, a history of Apple in pictures. It's all there. Jobs, The Woz, The Apple I, The Lisa -- the predecessor to the original Macintosh -- and a ton of candid shots that ...

The iPhone has been anticipated for a long time. A very long time. It's finally coming out, and could have the potential to be better than we could have ever imagined with a surprise turn of events. Apple's Wordwide Developers Conference is today in San Francisco, and some exciting news has been rumored to be dropped at the event. Steve Jobs may announce that they will be letting developers write ...

The Financial Times is reporting that Apple could be planning to offer online video rentals. The company is reportedly in talks with the major movie studios. Unlike competing services Amazon Unbox or Movielink, Apple customers can buy movies from the iTunes store, but they cannot rent them. While downloaded movies usually sell for $10 to $15, Apple could charge $2.99 per rental. You'd be able to ...

Once upon a time, many a geek would fantasize about a knock-down drag 'em out deathmatch between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Well, it looks like chances of that are pretty slim. While it's well documented that these two industry icons haven't always had been particularly chummy, it appears that they are over whatever disagreements previously plagued their relationship. Gates and Jobs appeared ...

Steve Jobs is taking all of the fun out of hacking Apple products like the AppleTV by announcing that new features are on their way. While hackers have been busy working on a plugin to play YouTube videos on an AppleTV box, apparently so has Apple. Jobs made the announcement during a talk with the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg at the paper's "D: All Things Digital" conference. YouTube ...

In February Steve Jobs told the world that he thought it was time to get rid of DRM and now two months later word on the street is that Steve Jobs plans on selling songs owned by London based EMI on iTunes DRM free. If it happens, this could be the beginning of the end for DRM if other record companies follow suit and offer up their tunes DRM free as well. Jobs will reportedly make an announcement ...

Steve Jobs released an open letter to iTunes critics yesterday entitled, "Thoughts on Music" in which he discusses DRM, the major label system and why iTunes isn't "open." Ok, so in points the letter is factually incorrect. It tends to over-simplify the DRM debate by discounting any open alternative. As a well-known and widely read enemy of DRM, I'll take it. In Steve's own words, "Why would the ...

If you a) are an Apple fan (or are just Mac-curious) and b) enjoy refreshing your browser, you should do what I'm doing and head over to our sister blog TUAW, where they're liveblogging Steve Jobs' keynote right now. Speculation as to whether any Earth-shattering plans will be revealed today is rampant as ever--iPhone? iTV? iBex? Tune in to find out. If your reloading finger gets tired and you're ...

I hate to be the one to bring down fire and brimstone from Apple users upon my head, but I must venture under the torrid sky for a few moments. Through some carefully placed corporate propaganda in no small number of places, Apple has tried (rather successfully) to convince its users that Mac OS is impervious and invincible, while the company we love to hate (Microsoft) continues to wallow in its ...

...repeating himself. Okay, okay, that's not fair. I may be a PC guy, but I'm still a big fan of the Jobster and always tune into Engadget and TUAW's Stevenote liveblogs. But that didn't stop me from getting a big kick out of a couple hilarious Steve Jobs videos courtesy of FriedGeek. In the first, we learn some of Steve's favorite catchphrases. Un-be-lievable! And in the second, after the ...

Mr. Star Wars, the geek-man, OB1 himself, none other than George Lucas thinks movie downloads are where it's at for the future of movie entertainment distribution. Really? We didn't see that coming. Steve Jobs has also been chatting with Lucas at various times about the idea, which isn't surprising now that iTunes now has movies from Disney, with more to follow invariably. Lucas and Jobs have ...

Apple announced yesterday that Google CEO Eric Schmidt has joined the ranks on Apple's Board of Directors. "Apple is one of the companies in the world that I most admire," said Eric Schmidt. "I'm really looking forward to working with Steve and Apple's board to help with all of the amazing things Apple is doing." Likewise, Steve Jobs praised Schmidt, saying, "Eric is obviously doing a terrific job ...