David Gelphman, former software engineer at Apple, shares a very personal, very human interaction with the late Steve Jobs: In March 2010, just a couple of weeks before the iPad was due to be released publicly, I had a reason to contact Steve. A friend of mine was dying of liver disease and I was [...]
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‘jOBS’ biopic with Ashton Kutcher delayed and no new date announced
Posted by ryan on March 16th, 2013
The Steve Jobs biopic starring Ashton Kutcher which was set to make its big screen debut on April 19 has now been delayed. According to a report by Deadline, the film will no longer arrive on April 19 and no new date has been announced yet either. The film’s original release was set to coincide [...]
On the eve of Samsung's Galaxy S4 event, Apple's Phil Schiller repeats that Android is fragmented, lacks integration, offers poor experience
Posted by ryan on March 14th, 2013
Tomorrow Samsung will announce the Galaxy S4 — I know this because I’ll be in New York, playing Jimmy Olsen to Phil Nickinson’s Clark Kent and otherwise helping out with Android Central‘s coverage — and as if on cue, Apple’s senior vice president of marketing, Phil Schiller, has popped up to send some jabs Android’s [...]
Jobs' Starbucks prank still causes Starbucks in Cali to get orders for 4,000 lattes
Posted by ryan on March 4th, 2013
Any true Apple fan will remember when Steve Jobs got up on stage and announced the first iPhone. You may also remember that one of his first calls was a prank call to a Starbucks location in California. He jokingly asked for 4,000 lattes to go and quickly said he was kidding and hung up. [...]
Art Levinson, Chairman of the Board at Apple, talks about life at Apple after Steve Jobs
Posted by ryan on February 21st, 2013
The chairman of Apple’s board, Art Levinson, spoke to Stanford’s Graduate School of Business on Tuesday, about a wide range of topics, including life at Apple after the death of Steve Jobs, and the role of Apple’s board in developing products. Levinson joined Apple’s board in 2000 and was said to be a close friend [...]
First clip from the jOBS movie released, Woz says it’s not even close to what actually happened
Posted by ryan on January 25th, 2013
The first clip from the upcoming jOBS movie starring Ashton Kutcher as the late Steve Jobs and Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak has been released. In the short clip it shows Steve and Woz discussing how Woz has the ability to create a personal computer that actually displays information on a screen in real-time. The [...]
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Tags: Homebrew Computer Club, Josh Gad, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak 
2 Comments »Steve Jobs threatened Palm with lawsuit over employee poaching
Posted by ryan on January 24th, 2013
According to a court filing made public yesterday, Steve Jobs threatened Palm with a patent lawsuit in order to stop them from attempting to hire employees away from Apple. The communications between then-Palm CEO Edward Colligan and Jobs took place in 2007. The emails became public as part of a civil action brought against Apple, [...]
Posted in iPhone, iPad & iPod Tags: Judge Lucy Koh, Lucy Koh, Reuters Colligan, Steve Jobs Comments OffHow Siri almost became Verizon — and Android — only
Posted by ryan on January 23rd, 2013
Siri very nearly became a staple of the Droid line of Android phones before Apple purchased the company in 2010. Originally a standalone app available for iPhone, Verizon had signed a deal with Siri in late 2009 in order to put the service on every Droid phone, but the deal was cancelled after Apple purchased [...]
Creating iMovie and iPhoto, and working with Steve Jobs, the ultimate product guy
Posted by ryan on January 23rd, 2013
<img src=”http://cdn.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/images/stories/2012/01/Steve-Jobs-with-iPad.jpg” width=”620″ height=”370″” alt=”” class=”aligncenter” /> Glenn Reid left Adobe to join NeXT, left NeXT to make NeXT software, and left that to join Apple just after Steve Jobs returned to the company, and brought with him what would become OS X. Reid was eventually tasked to build iMovie and iPhoto, and worked a [...]
Ashton Kutcher and Josh Gad to appear at Macworld’s opening keynote
Posted by ryan on January 22nd, 2013
Ashton Kutcher and Josh Gad will make an appearance in the opening keynote at this year’s Macworld / iWorld event. Ashton Kutcher and Josh Gad play Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak respectively in the upcoming movie biopic jOBS. They will be followed later in the day by musician will.i.am and Intel’s futurist Brian David Johnson. [...]
