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Apple the leader in innovation, technology, and the creation of Chinese sweat shops..
“We’ve known about labor abuses in some factories for four years, and they’re still going on,” said one former Apple executive who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of confidentiality agreements. “Why? Because the system works for us. Suppliers would change everything tomorrow if Apple told them they didn’t have another choice.”Apple the leader in innovation, technology, and the creation of Chinese sweat shops..... more
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More proof that Siri was made by and for 40-year-old virgins.
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"Now, what’s in a name?
Look closely at the name: Siri. What letters stand out?
See it yet?
S i R I.
SRI = Stanford Research Institute.
It turns out that Apple’s Siri used to be SRI’s Siri, and SRI’s Siri is… Are you ready? A spinoff of DARPA’s PAL (Perceptive Assistant that Learns) program, which SRI called CALO (Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organizes)...."
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http://cryptogon.com/?p=25289"Now, what’s in a name?
Look closely at the name: Siri. What letters... more
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Check out these pictures from Steve Jobs' family photo album.
Here's an extended excerpt from Walter Isaacson's interview on 60 Minutes that aired last night in which we get to take a look at some never-before-seen photos of Steve Jobs and his family.
From photos of Jobs' wedding to pictures from his family vacations, take a look behind the scenes of the life of the Apple co-founder.Check out these pictures from Steve Jobs' family photo album.
Here's an... more
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Apple has posted this video of the tribute to Steven P. Jobs, which took place last week at the Apple campus in Cupertino, California. The event, “A Celebration of Steve’s Life,” was held to commemorate Mr. Jobs, who died this month after battling pancreatic cancer.
The video begins with Timothy D. Cook, Apple’s chief executive, who shared thoughts of Mr. Jobs’s work at Apple over the years and noted that no one in attendance would be working at Apple if it wasn’t for Mr. Jobs. “There is one more thing he leaves us; he leaves us with each other,” Mr. Cook said. “Other than his family, Apple would be his finest creation.” Mr. Cook also said the last piece of advice Mr. Jobs gave him was “to never ask what he would do; just do what’s right.”
Following Mr. Cook’s speech, Al Gore, the former Vice President and an Apple board member, spoke. Some of Mr. Jobs’s favorite musicians played at the event. Norah Jones sang the Bob Dylan song “Forever Young.” The British band Coldplay performed “Fix You” and “Yellow,” while thousands of Apple employees listened and helped celebrate the co-founder’s life.
This piece includes photographs and the full video of the commemoration.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/a-celebration-of-steves-life/Apple has posted this video of the tribute to Steven P. Jobs, which took place last... more
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Steve Jobs Narrates Never-Aired “Here's To The Crazy Ones” Commercial
This needs to be aired. Today.
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” When originally released in 1997, Richard Dreyfuss provided the narration for this famous ad campaign, but originally Jobs himself did it. Its message is moving already, and to hear Jobs say it makes it even more so.
Think Different.
Steve Jobs narrates the first Think different commercial "Here's to the Crazy Ones". It never aired. Richard Dreyfuss did the voice for spot however Steve's is much better 1997.
The people featured in "Here's To The Crazy Ones" video: Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King, Richard Branson, John Lennon, Buckminster Fuller, JR Tolkien, Muhammad Ali, Ted Turner, Maria Callas, Mahatma Gandhi, Amelia Earhart, Alfred Hitchcock, Martha Graham, Jim Henson, Frank Lloyd Wright & PicassoSteve Jobs Narrates Never-Aired “Here's To The Crazy Ones” Commercial... more
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The death of Steve Jobs not only has huge cross industry impact, but represent a loss to the entire world of a great visionary and someone who help changed the world as we know it forever.The death of Steve Jobs not only has huge cross industry impact, but represent a loss... more
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Steven P. Jobs, the Apple Inc. chairman and co-founder who pioneered the personal-computer industry and changed the way people think about technology, died Wednesday at the age of 56.
I'm a big fan of this very great soul, who changed the world and made us all believe in the innovative technologies. Mr. Jobs had battled pancreatic cancer and several years ago received a liver transplant. In August, Mr. Jobs stepped down as chief executive, handing the reins to longtime deputy Tim Cook.
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http://paragonist.blogspot.com/2011/10/rip-steve-jobs-end-of-era.htmlSteven P. Jobs, the Apple Inc. chairman and co-founder who pioneered the... more
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Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s Co-Founder and visionary, who helped usher in the era of personal computers and led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday at the age of 56. Mr. Jobs had waged a long and public struggle with cancer, remaining the face of the company even as he underwent treatment. He underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer in 2004, received a liver transplant in 2009 and took three medical leaves of absence as Apple’s chief executive before stepping down in August and turning over the helm to Timothy D. Cook, the chief operating officer. After leaving, he was still engaged in the company’s affairs, negotiating with another Silicon Valley executive only weeks earlier.
“I have always said that if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s C.E.O., I would be the first to let you know,” Mr. Jobs said in a letter released by the company in August. “Unfortunately, that day has come.” By then, having mastered digital technology and capitalized on his intuitive marketing sense, Mr. Jobs had largely come to define the personal computer industry and a wide range of digital consumer and entertainment businesses centered on the Internet.
This piece includes a number of photographs, a documentary and a short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-rebel-icon-and-genius/Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s Co-Founder and visionary, who helped usher in the era of... more
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Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s Co-Founder, Former-CEO and visionary, who helped usher in the era of personal computers and led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday at the age of 56. The death was announced by Apple Computers, the company Mr. Jobs and his high school friend Stephen Wozniak started in 1976 in a suburban California garage. Mr. Jobs had waged a long and public struggle with cancer, remaining the face of the company even as he underwent treatment.
He underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer in 2004, received a liver transplant in 2009 and took three medical leaves of absence as Apple’s chief executive before stepping down in August and turning over the helm to Timothy D. Cook, the chief operating officer. After leaving, he was still engaged in the company’s affairs, negotiating with another Silicon Valley executive only weeks earlier.
“I have always said that if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s C.E.O., I would be the first to let you know,” Mr. Jobs said in a letter released by the company in August. “Unfortunately, that day has come.” By then, having mastered digital technology and capitalized on his intuitive marketing sense, Mr. Jobs had largely come to define the personal computer industry and a wide range of digital consumer and entertainment businesses centered on the Internet.
This piece includes a number of photographs, a photo-gallery and three videos.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/steven-p-jobs-apple’s-co-founder-former-ceo-and-visionary-dies-at-56/Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s Co-Founder, Former-CEO and visionary, who helped usher... more
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"There's one more thing."---Steve Jobs( 1955-2011 ) at any unavailing of a new product.
Jobs management style has been credited with Apple's meteoric rise as the world's most important company. I don't credit his management style at all in Apple becoming the most innovative company in the world. I credit his vision and his drive in doing something unique, something more, something visionary.
I don't think that the company will stop being innovating, to tell you the truth technology drives itself, whatever is new won't be set back decades just because he is gone--technology has no attachment to any individual. What he did at Apple was infuse the people with a sense of wonder for what is possible and we the consumers reacted by making Apple products everyday essentials.
Steve you sparked our imagination by changeling us all to think different. Rest in peace knowing that we will always demand that There's ALWAYS one more thing.
http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/"There's one more thing."---Steve Jobs( 1955-2011 ) at any unavailing... more
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http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/steve-jobs-apple-ceo-dies/story?id=14383813
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Apple says that company founder Steve Jobs, widely regarded as one of the great innovators of the computer era, has died at the age of 56.Apple says that company founder Steve Jobs, widely regarded as one of the great... more
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This just blew my mind. Back in 1987 Apple made a video about a future computer that would have a touchscreen with a computerize assistant you could talk to. They were off in their prediction by only 18 days. Wow.
In 1987, former Apple CEO John Sculley wrote about a concept called the Knowledge Navigator. It was a far out idea that was way ahead of its time. Its time, evidently, was today. The Knowledge Navigator features a digital assistant that is almost identical to Siri, which just launched hours ago, though Siri is a disembodied voice, not a guy in a bow tie. Less bow tie is always good. Check the video and tell me it's not eerily similar.
Here's the kicker, though. Andy Baio of Waxy.org noted, "The date on the professor's calendar is September 16, and he's looking for a 2006 paper written 'about five years ago,' setting the year as 2011." September 16th, 2011. So, twenty-four years ago Apple predicted that there would be a magical, touchscreen device, that could do video calls, that would have a digital assistant you could interact with, and that would pull down data from a massive network (coughTheCloudcough)... and they were only eighteen days off? That's fucking crazy.
What kind of dark magic is at work here? Does Apple have a time machine (other than their product, Time Machine) or a crystal ball? Is that how they rule computers? Time travel? Absolutely nutso. [Waxy.org and BYTECellar]
Update: To clarify, the video is not from 1987. The video was made in the mid-90's. The 1987 date was when John Sculley wrote about Knowledge Navigator is his book Odyssey. Sorry confusion be banished!
UPDATE 2: To avoid confusion and on the advice of Andy Baio, I've swapped in an edited segment of the video. To be clear, this video was produced in 1987. The previous video was produced in the mid-90's and contained this 1987 video in it. So they're still time-traveling warlocks. Everybody got that? Okay, good. Thanks, Andy!This just blew my mind. Back in 1987 Apple made a video about a future computer that... more
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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/09/privacy-win-apple-and-dropbox-join-fight-reform
In April we launched "Who Has Your Back", a campaign calling on major Internet companies like Google, Amazon and Microsoft to stand with their users when it comes to government demands for users’ data. Today, we’re pleased to see that two of the thirteen companies highlighted in our petition, Apple and Dropbox, have agreed to one of our requests: that they stand up for user privacy in Congress by joining the Digital Due Process coalition.
Digital Due Process is a diverse coalition of privacy advocates like EFF, ACLU and the Center for Democracy & Technology and major companies like AT&T, eBay and Comcast that has come together with the shared goal of modernizing surveillance laws for the Internet age. The DDP coalition is especially focused on pressing Congress to update the woefully-outdated Electronic Communications Privacy Act or "ECPA."
ECPA was passed by Congress in 1986, before the World Wide Web was even invented and when cell phones were still a rarity. Yet to this day, ECPA is the primary law governing how and when law enforcement can access personal information and private communications stored by communications providers like Google, Facebook, your cell phone company or your ISP.
Unfortunately, ECPA is weak, confusing, and outdated. For example, it doesn’t specifically address location information at all, which has led to years of fighting in the courts about whether or not the government needs a search warrant to track your cell phone. Meanwhile, whether or not ECPA requires the government to get a warrant before seizing private communications content like your emails and IM chats turns on absurd factors like how old the messages are and, according to the Justice Department, whether or not you’ve read them yet. Frighteningly, the government also seems to think that the privacy of your search history stored with Google or Yahoo! or Microsoft’s Bing isn’t protected by ECPA at all.
It’s past time that Congress gave ECPA a much-needed digital upgrade so that it better fits the always-on, location-enabled technological landscape of the 21st century. That’s why DDP is pushing for amendments to ECPA to ensure that the government can’t track your cell phone or obtain your online content—like your private emails, social network messages, photos, search history, word processing documents and backup files—without first going to court to get a search warrant based on probable cause.
Since DDP launched last Spring, our efforts have prompted serious discussion in Washington, D.C. about the need to reform ECPA, with Congress holding five hearings on the issue and introducing several bills that address some of the coalition’s recommendations. That was the first stage in the process of baking stronger and clearer privacy protections into the law. Now comes the harder part: actually getting a good bill passed by Congress and signed by the President.
As we enter that next phase in the fight for electronic privacy reform, it’s good to know that we’ll have Apple and Dropbox on our side. We’re especially pleased to have these new allies as we approach the 25th anniversary of ECPA’s passage on October 21st, which will be a focal point in our campaign to get a 21st century upgrade to our electronic privacy laws.
We’re updating our "Who Has Your Back" chart and awarding a gold star to both Apple and Dropbox for joining us in this effort.
Want to see more companies have your back when the government comes knocking? Sign our petition https://whohasyourback.eff.org/ and share it with your friends.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/09/privacy-win-apple-and-dropbox-join-fight-reform... more
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Recently an app called "Phone Story" was pulled by Apple because it exposed the horrendous working conditions at Foxconn's factory in China. Sign this petition to help put an end to all this:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/end-apples-labor-abuse/Recently an app called "Phone Story" was pulled by Apple because it exposed... more
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Sure Steve Jobs became a household name by helping revolutionize personal computing, but he also helped shape the modern entertainment industry with products such as iTunes, the iPod and the iPad. And we shouldn’t forget his role in founding a little animation company called Pixar. What does Jobs' departure from Apple means to Hollywood and why are some entertainment execs secretly relieved to see him exit the stage?Sure Steve Jobs became a household name by helping revolutionize personal computing,... more
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Apple is said to deliver the Thunderbolt Display to stores this week based on details that emerged on Tuesday. MacRumors said that both the official Apple stores and third-party chains should have the 27-inch screen soon. Online pre-order customers haven’t received shipping notices yet, but some details claimed that the shipping of the Thunderbolt Display will be on September 15.
The display was revealed during the unveiling of the new MacBook Air, and is being used as a full desktop docking station for portables. The 10Gbps Thunderbolt link feeds both the 2560 x 1440 display, as well as gigabit Ethernet, 2.1-channel audio, an HD webcam, FireWire 800 and three USB ports. Apple’s only separate cable for the computer is a MagSafe connector required to supply the extra power for notebooks.
Users can daisy chain as many as five other Thunderbolt devices, even though only one of those devices can be an additional Thunderbolt Display.Apple is said to deliver the Thunderbolt Display to stores this week based on details... more
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In a shocking development out of Cupertino, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has stepped down, the board naming Tim Cook as his replacement. The company said "Steve's extraordinary vision and leadership saved Apple and guided it to its position as the world's most innovative and valuable technology company," and Steve himself had this to say:
I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.
I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.
As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.
I believe Apple's brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.
I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.
Steve
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/24/steve-jobs-resigns-as-ceo-of-apple/In a shocking development out of Cupertino, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has stepped down, the... more
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One thing I like about iOS 5 is the rounded toggle button that appears within the settings. I cringe when I look at the rectangular buttons of iOS 4. This seems crazy, but there's a scientific reason for this preference.
Rounded corners are easy on the eyes and easy for the brain to process. That's because the fovea of your eye can process circles at a rate much faster than squares. You prefer circular objects because your eyes and brain don't work as hard.
Rounded corners also point inward and focus your eyes on the content inside an object. A squared edge is the exact opposite — it focuses your eyes on the stuff outside of the object. When you look at the rectangular buttons of iOS 4, you have to work harder to shift your gaze from the outside to the inside of the button. In iOS 5, there's little work involved. You look at the round button, your eyes focus inward and you make your selection with ease.
http://gizmodo.com/5832428/why-some-people-prefer-the-round-toggle-buttons-of-ios-5One thing I like about iOS 5 is the rounded toggle button that appears within the... more
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