Steve Jobs, the late co-founder of tech giant Apple, shall be posthumously awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, The White House said on a press release Friday. On Friday, July 1, President Joe Biden announced the seventeen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which includes the Apple co-founder who … Read more →
This rare first batch Apple-1 is still working, and it comes with Steve Jobs’ handwritten serial number plus Steve Wozniak’s signature on the operation manual pamphlet. The Apple 1 (also spelled Apple I or Apple-1) was the very first Apple product created by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak when the Apple Computer Company was established. … Read more →
Apple commemorated the tenth death anniversary of Steve Jobs on Tuesday, October 5, by transforming its website homepage with a letter signed by Steve Jobs’ family and a short video entitled ‘Celebrating Steve’. The statement from the Jobs family says: For a decade now, mourning and healing have gone together. Our gratitude has become as … Read more →
A job application paper handwritten and signed by Steve Jobs himself way back in 1973 is being put up for auction…once again. The last time it was sold on March this year, it went for more than $200,000. The autographed memorabilia is put up for auction once more, but this time with a twist – … Read more →
A job application paper handwritten and signed by Steve Jobs himself way back in 1973 is going to be put up for auction later this month. The last time it was sold, it went for more than $175,000. Most of us will think that job application forms are not worth much at all once decades … Read more →
Today, Apple’s iPhone turns 5. This day, in 2007, the original iPhone was released to the consumers. Unfortunately Steve Jobs can’t be with us today to celebrate as he passed away October 5th 2011, so let’s remember him by watching the video of Steve Jobs presenting iPhone to the public for the very first time … Read more →
In today’s smartphone market, consumers are on the hunt for items with the most cutting edge and advanced features. Some people have to sell an old smartphone just so that they can they can have enough money and have that state-of-the-art phone. That being said, the question is, does size matter? Well, it does in … Read more →
With the next release of iTunes, Ping will no longer exist. Apple has decided to pull the plug to its own social media network, which was launched in September 2010. It never really took off and it couldn’t get the Facebook integration it wanted. Back when it launched, Steve Jobs said Facebook had such high … Read more →
Without Steve Jobs, Apple will not be able to continue to produce “magical” products. At least that’s what George Colony from Forrester (analytics company) writes on his blog. Even though Apple continues to beat their own records every time they release new financial statements, George Colony thinks that Apple will eventually end up like Sony … Read more →
Steve Jobs, Apple’s late co-founder, apparently never went to China, at least not on official Apple business. But the new CEO, Tim Cook, just went there and he visited the Apple Store in Joy City, a shopping mall in Xidan, Beijing. Local news posted a photo of Tim taking time to pose with a fan, … Read more →
According to Forbes, Steve Jobs invited Dropbox founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowski on a visit back in 2009, where Steve surprised them with a very generous offer to purchase Dropbox. It is rumored that Steve Jobs was willing to pay a nine digit-digit price. At that time, Dropbox had only existed for two years … Read more →
Steve Jobs recently left his position as CEO at Apple and instead became a member of the board. And so, it is doubtful that we will see him back on the stage anytime soon, doing one of this keynotes where he presents the figures, products and his “one more thing”. Here’s a look at some … Read more →
Yesterday Steve Jobs decided to step down as CEO for Apple, after health issues for quite a while. He does remain a member of the board though, so hopefully his ideas will remain within Apple. His replacement, Tim Cook, has already been running Apple for the past 6 months or something while Steve Jobs was … Read more →
Apple just announced in a press release that it will be unveiling iOS 5, Mac OS X Lion and iCloud at the next WWDC to begin on Monday June 6th. Steve Jobs himself will, as usual, take the stage at the opening keynote address to make the announcements. Usually Apple doesn’t release such information before … Read more →
To some surprise, Steve Jobs himself took the stage during his medical leave of absence, as he “didn’t want to miss it”, as he said, since they had been working on the product (iPad 2) for awhile. Before the iPad 2 presentation, Steve Jobs explained how 100 million books were downloaded so far from iBooks … Read more →
BusinessWire has posted a message sent from Steve Jobs to all Apple employees, indicating that he will be taking a medical leave of absence to focus on his health. There’s no mentioning of how long he’s going to be away but he will still be involved in major strategic decisions, though Tim Cook will run … Read more →