Apple CEO Tim Cook
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Speaking of Tim Cook, Looks like Bloomberg Businessweek scored a good interview.
Apple to manufacture Mac line in the US
NBC News: In an interview with Brian Williams airing tonight on “Rock Center,” Apple CEO Tim Cook says one of the existing Mac lines will be manufactured exclusively in the US next year.Cook says he believes it’s important to bring more jobs to the US. “We’ve been working for years on doing more and more in the US,” he says.
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There have been rumblings that the new iMac was being manufactured in the U.S., but now we have confirmation that at least something is U.S.-produced.
Sundance 2013 Premiere Lineup Includes Steve Jobs Biopic and Many More
Noah Wyle, eat your heart out.
Apple Inc. (AAPL) has fired the manager responsible for its troubled mapping software, seeking to win back the trust of users disappointed after the program debuted in September, according to people familiar with the move.
Richard Williamson, who oversaw the mapping team, was pushed out by Senior Vice President Eddy Cue, said the people, who asked not to be named because the information wasn’t yet public. Cue, who took over last month as part of a management shakeup, is seeking advice from outside mapping-technology experts and prodding digital maps providerTomTom NV (TOM2) to fix landmark and navigation data it shares with Apple.
Given the public reaction to Apple’s in-house Maps app, we can’t say we’re entirely surprised by this announcement, though we sort of expected Williamson to be shown the door weeks ago if it was going to happen. The decision was apparently made by new Senior Vice President Eddy Cue following last month’s Apple executive shuffle. Of course, many people probably think the entire situation is being blown out of proportion. What say you, dear reader?E
The script Aaron Sorkin is crafting for a film about Steve Jobs will be comprised of just three scenes, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter said Thursday.
The scenes will all take place backstage before three of Jobs’ most important product launches: the original Macintosh; NeXT, which was the start-up Jobs created after leaving Apple; and the iPod.
Zzzzzzzzz … suddenly the Ashton Kutcher-starring Steve Jobs movie is beginning to sound a lot more interesting. Sorkin has an opportunity to surface interesting details about Jobs, and he chose to focus on the three parts of the story everyone knows? Considering the details he has from the Isaacson book, the formative years would have made much more interesting than this. This is a guy who didn’t use deodorant for like 30 years! He disowned his daughter just as he was becoming famous! He ate nothing but fruit! There’s got to be better uses of 90 minutes than a “24”-style behind-the-scenes piece, which basically sounds like a tech-company recreation of “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” because that’s this guy’s comfort zone.
in the early days of Apple Inc, Steve Jobs would occasionally sign computer chips, attach them to Apple stationery and send them out randomly to Apple fans
I’m sure that letter would probably sell for a lot of money on eBay. Really cool.
Sur..prise?: Apple has officially unveiled the iPad mini, though we’re not sure how many people were unaware of the device’s existence at this point. The iPad mini will ship with a 7.9-inch screen, modified A5 chip under the hood, and a starting price of $329 for the Wi-Fi only model. Pre-orders begin on Friday and the first devices will land in consumers’ hands on November 2. So, are you planning to get the smaller iPad? (Photo via The Verge) source
Currently happening: Apple’s iPad mini keynote. Guess what’s under the cloth.
Wrote a thing.
Hat tip to this headline writer.
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You might make the case that Apple is sinful based on the gluttony for gadgets it inspires, but some extreme Orthodox Christians in Russia are more offended by the company’s “blasphemous” logo.
According to a translation of a Russian news report that’s been kicking around the Web, some conservative believers see the image of the bitten apple as a symbol of Adam and Eve’s original sin in the Bible. Some have gone so far as to cover up the logo and replace it with an image of a cross.
Apparently no one has clued these folks in to the fact that Apple’s name and logo were actually inspired by the legendary piece of fruit that fell on the head of mathematician and astronomer Isaac Newton.
Don’t know about you guys, but we’re going to sinfully eat our lunch.
According to a very trusted source, Apple Store employees who have been tasked with improving Apple’s new mapping service are using Bing Maps to correct reported address errors in Apple Maps. According to my source:
When someone has reported an [address-related] problem, they look up the real address on Bing (via an embedded map on the page) and then correct the location.
Using a different service to fix the problem is not surprising, but skipping over Google, the clear industry leader in mapping, due to their disdain for the company, is the same issue that got them into this mess in the first place. Remember, Apple had a year left on its Google Maps/iOS contract.
In which Apple relies on third-hand mapping information.
Apple’s maps are bad. Even Tim Cook knows this and apologized for them. Google’s maps are good, thanks to years of work, massive computing resources, and thousands of people handcorrecting map data.
But there are more than two horses in the race to create an index of the physical world. There’s a third company that’s invested billions of dollars, employs thousands of mapmakers, and even drives around its own version of Google’s mythic “Street View” cars.
That company is Nokia, the still-giant but oft-maligned Finnish mobile phone maker, which acquired the geographic information systems company Navteq back in 2007 for $8 billion. That’s only a bit less than the Nokia’s current market value of a bit less than $10 billion, which is down 93 percent since 2007. This might be bad news for the company’s shareholders, but if a certain tech giant with a massive interest in mobile content (Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo) were looking to catch up or stay even with Google, the company’s Location & Commerce unit might look like a nice acquisition they could get on the cheap (especially given that the segment lost 1.5 billion euros last year). Microsoft and Yahoo are already thick as thieves with Nokia’s mapping crew, but Apple is the company that needs the most help.
Apple has bad maps. Nokia has maps that are better than Google’s, according to Madrigal, though nobody thinks about it. Apple has enough money that an $8 billion buy wouldn’t even make them blink. So, should they?
In which Steve Jobs predicts the future using a cassette tape. He actually nailed a ton of stuff early.
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