There are design firms out there that could come up with things we’ve never thought of, things that would make you shit in your pants.Steve Jobs, at a pre-release meeting on the Segway. (via lefarce)
Here’s Steve Jobs in 2005, passing on some wisdom to newly minted Stanford grads. It’s a very nonconventional college commencement speech, a fact that becomes obvious as soon as Jobs says that dropping out of college was one of the best decisions he ever made. He also explains how a spontaneous decision to drop in on a calligraphy class helped shape the future of home computing, and his comments about retroactively connecting the dots of our past decisions is one of the more insightful things we’ve heard in a while. source
It’s hard to feel bad about a guy who instilled fear in people about losing their jobs having to resign.
May God grant Jobs His Mercy and Grace
He’s had serious health problems for years, which is likely the reason for his departure — not a shake-up. Perhaps you should read up on it.
Reuters ran this photoset of Steve Jobs mugshots that really shows the stark decline in Jobs’ health over the years. Good luck, chairman of the board.
Steve Jobs blast from the past of the day: The current Apple CEO, back at WWDC in 1997 — right after he rejoined the company when Apple bought out NeXT, but before he found himself in the driver’s seat again. Fascinating foreshadowing in this clip in a couple of ways — he lays out the basic ideas for iCloud and iOS (in the nebulous “thin clients” form) and discusses the importance of taking away elements to focus on what the company does right. He takes questions from the audience, and even gets humbled at least once. It’s over an hour in length, but it’s a good hour of your time. (via Daring Fireball)
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Steve Jobs rests his head against his wife, Laurene Powell Jobs, after delivering the keynote address to the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at Moscone West on Monday.
Human just like the rest of us.
One of the more intimate shots of Steve we’ve seen. Going up there in his condition has to be tough.
You’ve tarnished Apple’s reputation … You should hate each other for having let each other down … Mossberg, our friend, is no longer writing good things about us.Apple CEO Steve Jobs • Yelling at the MobileMe team in 2008, in response to criticism of the service, which had a rocky launch and even got a negative review from Apple fanboi numero uno, Walt Mossberg. He named a new executive to shepherd the MobileMe product right then and there. The revelation that Steve Jobs is kind of an asshole isn’t really a new one, but this particular story is new. Although … this kind of says a lot about Jobs that he has to note that Walt Mossberg is downright chummy with Apple. Conflict of interest? source (via • follow)
We don’t know if this is true since it came from MacRumors, but if it is, it’s hilarious. Steve Jobs apparently managed to simultaneously deny that Apple was tracking users (which it isn’t) and implicate Google for doing the same thing. Obviously, the quip is vague. Still, though … (The Next Web via MacRumors)
So what Steve, are we chopped liver? We don’t know of any bigger Apple fanbois than us and … and … you didn’t even bother to call us to see if we were interested in doing an authorized biography? Who is this Walter Isaacson dude, anyway? Just some assclown with a name designed to be on the cover of a book? Just because he was the CEO of some two-bit operation named CNN doesn’t mean that he’s worth your time. We’re really upset about this. You should have called us, Steve. Now we’re going to write an unauthorized biography about you. It’s going to be called “iPusher: Steve Jobs and Apple’s legion of designer drug addicts.” Don’t like that title, Steve? Well, maybe you should’ve thought about that before working with Wal-TER. source
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Hat tip to this headline writer.
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The tale of the tech, complete with Steve Jobs! Jobs, who has been on medical leave (he’s been plagued by a number of health problems the past few years, and underwent a liver transplant in 2009), is a monolithic figure in the American technology business, and given his notorious work ethic and zeal for his products you’d imagine he wouldn’t want to miss this. source
» So, all in all, a successful debut. It’s easy to say this with some confidence because, frankly, Apple never really has unsuccessful debuts – even after the original iPad unveiling, which was probably the most hand-wringing seen over one of their new products, the thing took off like a damn rocket. And considering iPad 2 is basically the iPad on steroids, assuming the market isn’t over-saturated, we expect this to follow suit. This newest iteration will be selling for the same price as its forerunner, $499, and begins shipping domestically (U.S.) March 11th, internationally March 25th-26th. So, what y’all think? Will you be the first in line to snag one of these bad boys, or is this a luxury toy you simply don’t need?
Steve Jobs appears on stage at iPad 2 event. via Endgadget Live Blog
This is big because he’s still on medical leave.
Finally. Most of the people we write about were in a single room last night, having alcohol together. Obama. Mark Zuckerberg. The Twitter guy. Steve Jobs. And if you’re stretching it, that @$$hole Larry Ellison. If a nuclear bomb hit this restaurant last night, we would have nothing to write about and would probably have to shut down the blog. We’re glad it wasn’t. source
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