Whether you’re looking for some simple clue to his success or just gotta scratch that (tech) celebrity itch, Steve Jobs is an elusive source. Moreover, in the infrequent glimpses we do get, it’s hard to get a feel for who he really is. Here’re a few candids, some never seen before, providing insight into Apple’s enigmatic CEO.
As Apple rolls into what looks to be yet another record setting holiday shopping quarter, on the heels of the company’s most profitable quarter ever, giving an accolade to the man who’s listed by name among the patent and trademark docs for the iMac, iPod and iPhone seems a safe bet. Shallow praise for the father of the Jesus phone?
With incidents like this, you’ve gotta wonder if Apple’s just testing to see if we’re 1.) paying attention and 2.) actually care. In this particular case, we don’t know what if any purpose Cupertino had in removing and returning support for the processors used in most netbooks, but folks were definitely paying attention.
The Apple App Store, and the number of apps that it contains and which are downloaded from it, have been given a great deal of the credit for the success of the iPhone, but when is enough enough?
Geez Louise this has gotta sting and more than a little. To date, two of the more prominent Web metrics firms have pegged Microsoft’s operating system launch somewhere between good for Apple and the Mac, to better than Vista. So much for a holiday home run for Redmond this Christmas shopping season.
Is Apple preparing to push its industry-leading jukebox/device management/digital download store software in a new direction? The latest rumor making the rounds is that Steve Jobs, Eddy Cue and their merry band are preparing the way for a monthly subscription service, but you’re run of the mill pay-forever-music deal that everyone else is offering.
The good news for Microsoft over the last week or so is that Windows 7 has seen its share of Web traffic rise by nearly three-quarters from just under 2 percent to around 3.5 percent. The bad news is that the company, at least by this same overall measure, is still losing market share to Apple and its category defining Mac OS X.
Apple has filed a patent for a device that seems to be an iPod Bluetooth headset, with an order of other capabilities on the side, that has a bit of a SyFy Channel taste about it.
Forget Dell and Google, the only company standing between the Cupertino, California-based Mac, iPod and iPhone maker and the top tech company valuation is Microsoft. Steve Jobs’ fortunes and those of his company have skyrocketed over the last year, whereas the rest of the industry, including Redmond, have declined.
Apple, which seems to spend a lot of time on both sides of patent infringement lawsuits, has vowed to fight hard in court against the recent major case about iPhone patents brought by Nokia.
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