Why Apple Must Not Rest on its Laurels

by Oliver Haslam on Jan 31, 2012

It seems right now that Apple just can do no wrong. With record sales of its devices and huge amounts of money sat in the bank, it’s all very rosy over in Cupertino. But other companies have had successful periods before, only for things to go a little awry in future years.

Despite great results from Apple ever since Steve Jobs returned to the company back in 1997, it wasn’t really until the iPhone’s introduction in 2007 that the world really took notice of what was going in at 1 Infinite Loop.

Now it’s a worldwide phenomenon, with people owning iPhones who would never have contemplated picking up a Mac.

Throw in the beginnings of a tablet market that is still being dominated by the iPad, and Apple have every right to feel smug. But it may not last forever… Read More

 

Apple Remembers Steve Jobs Through Photos and Quotes

by Oliver Haslam on Jan 29, 2012

Apple is still coming to terms with the loss of its charismatic co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, and probably will be for some time. While there is no doubting new CEO Tim Cook’s abilities to run a tight ship, he’ll possibly be the first to admit that there will only ever be one Steve Jobs.

The company remembers Jobs throughout the halls of its 1 Infinite Loop campus, with photos of the man who saved Apple back in the 90s placed on the walls of Apple’s HQ. Quotes are also seen attached to corridor walls, with some of Jobs’ famous pearls of wisdom there to help motivate the Apple team even from beyond the grave.

Now 9to5 Mac has been given photographs of some of the photos and quotes that can be found inside Apple’s offices, with at least one of them taking employees back to the days of the original Macintosh… Read More

 

How Apple “Acquired” the iPhone Trademark From Cisco

by Cody on Jan 27, 2012

Adam Lashinsky’s new book Inside Apple, which was released earlier this week, is full of juicy stories from Apple’s past. Pieces of the book have been popping up on the web over the past two weeks.

The latest excerpt we’ve come across, courtesy of our friends over at Cult of Mac, provides some insight on the details surrounding Apple’s “acquisition” of the iPhone trademark from Cisco Systems… Read More

 

Bill Gates Sent a Letter to Steve Jobs Before He Passed

by Oliver Haslam on Jan 27, 2012

Bill Gates has told how he sent Steve Jobs a personal letter before his death, and explained how the pair’s complicated relationship worked.

During an interview with The Telegraph, the former Microsoft CEO spoke about Jobs and the relationship between the two during the Macintosh days and how the two became competitors after initially working on the same project.

Bill Gates also went on to describe Jobs as an “incredible genius“ and spoke about the Apple CEO’s work in increasing the Mac’s market share in the face of competition from Microsoft’s PC platform… Read More

 

Virgin America’s Tribute to Steve Jobs

by Oliver Haslam on Jan 24, 2012

Apple’s co-founder and former CEO, the late Steve Jobs, was an inspirational figure for many people, with tributes flooding in after his death in October of 2011. People from across the globe, both inside the technology industry and out, all paid their respects in their own ways.

Now Virgin America has also paid tribute to the man that almost single handedly rescued Apple from an uncertain future when he returned to the company in 1997, with the airline having one of Jobs’ most memorable quotes emblazoned on one of its new airplanes.

“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” was a quote that Jobs gave during his famous Standford address in 2005, and has since gone on to become synonymous with Jobs himself. Now one of Virgin America’s new A320 airplanes has the same quote written in its side, too… Read More

 

Apple Has Spent More Than 100 Million Dollars on Android War

by Cody on Jan 23, 2012

By now, most of you have heard Steve Jobs’ infamous “war on Android” quote from his recently-released biography. It goes something like, “I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”

He wasn’t kidding. The latest estimates suggest that Apple’s litigation fees its incurred in its ongoing legal battles with Android manufacturers add up to more than $100 million dollars. And the war is far from over… Read More

 

Here’s a Steve Jobs-Inspired iPhone SJ Concept

by Oliver Haslam on Jan 5, 2012

Antonio De Rosa has come up with yet another awesome iPhone concept, a handset he called the iPhone SJ because it was inspired by the late Steve Jobs.

Shown off in all its glory at De Rosa’s ADR Studio website, the concept takes the existing iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S body and reinvents it, creating a gorgeous concept that even Jony Ive himself would be pleased to call his own.

While the specs are not the biggest thing here, De Rosa speculates that the concept could come packed with a dual-core A6 chip and a 10 megapixel camera. That’s probably not too far from what we would expect Apple to put inside the iPhone 5… Read More

 

Steve Jobs Tribute Calendar Rejected by Apple’s App Store Police

by Oliver Haslam on Dec 31, 2011

When Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs passed away in October, people around the world felt like they had lost someone they knew, if only through the devices they own that bear the Apple brand. Many took to Apple Stores as a way of paying their respects, leaving messages and Apple products when they left.

One iOS app developer decided that the best way to honor Jobs was to release a free calendar app on Apple’s App Store honoring the late industry titan, but according to MacNN, Apple was not so keen on the idea. Apple’s App Store review team decided to reject the app, meaning we will never get to see the tribute ourselves…

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Visit to the Steve Jobs Exhibit at the US Patent and Trademark Office

by Jeff Benjamin on Dec 26, 2011

A couple of days ago, I took the opportunity to visit Alexandria, Virginia, home of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. I visited there with the intention of getting a glimpse of the Steve Jobs patent exhibit before it was scheduled to be removed in a few weeks.

It’s pretty interesting to look at some of the history of Apple’s patents and the people involved with those patents. The exhibit was uniquely designed to showcase 12 patents per iPhone screen; I guess you could say the patents were the “app icons” of each of the many large-scaled iPhone’s that made up the exhibit.

If you won’t be able to make it to the exhibit before it gets taken down, don’t fret; I’ve captured my visit on video for you to enjoy… Read More

 

Rumor: iPad 3 May Launch on Steve Jobs Birthday, February 24

by Sebastien on Dec 23, 2011

You’re going to have to take this one with a huge grain of salt as it comes straight from unreliable sources. According to Focus Taiwan, via 9to5Mac:

A local Chinese-language newspaper reported Friday that iPad3 might be launched on Feb. 24 to mark the anniversary of the birth of Apple’s late co-founder Steve Jobs.

While the rumor of the launch date itself doesn’t sound completely out of this world, the source is unknown and probably not worthy of trust.

 
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