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Apple Forgot to Trademark the Use of the Name “Steve Jobs”
Aside from getting caught deliberately slowing down older phones via iOS updates, it seems that Apple is a lot less careful lately. Their latest gaffe revolves around the fact that they have apparently forgotten to trademark the name “Steve Jobs”. The name is familiar to everyone who has ever heard…
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Legendary Apple Engineer Rejected for Genius Bar Job
A computer engineer who, during his 21 years at Apple, persuaded Steve Jobs to migrate the Mac computer from PowerPC processors to Intel chips, had his application for a job at the Genius Bar in an Apple store rejected. JK Scheinberg retired eight years ago, but wanted to return to…
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Private Collector Opens Apple Museum in Prague
Apple’s style and appeal are now iconic worldwide, with their products enjoying a strong market share across the globe. Not all nations have access to official Apple stores, one such country being the Czech Republic. This hasn’t stopped an Apple fanatic and private collector opening an Apple Museum in their…
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Steve Wozniak Claims Steve Jobs Knew Nothing About Technology
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak – affectionately known as Woz – has been unusually frank regarding Steve Jobs involvement in the early years of Apple’s computer development, revealing that Jobs knew nothing about technology and played no role in the design of the Apple I and Apple II home computers. Wozniak…
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The First Trailer For “Steve Jobs” Has Been Released
Set to be released on October 9, 2015, Steve Jobs or steve jobs|is a biographical drama film that portrays the life of the famous Apple co-founder. The movie is based on a biography signed by Walter Isaacson, it features a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin and is directed by Danny Boyle.…
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating Fortune to Charity
In a recent interview with Fortune, Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that he will be donating his wealth. He currently is worth roughly $112 million, and the restricted stock he holds carries a value of roughly $665 million, and has already been making some donations quietly, but wants to start making…
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Apple Wins iPod Trial, Jobs Video Not to Be Released
As many of you will know by now, Apple won that largely pointless iPod/iTunes DRM trial last week. That trial featured a video deposition of Steve Jobs, one that a number of major news outlets attempted to have released to the public. That effort has now been thwarted. The judge…
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Steve Jobs Predicted We Would Buy Computers for the Internet… in 1985
Steve Jobs was a visionary in the technology industry unlike anyone before or after him. He often predicted things that became essential facets of our everyday lives. Take for instance the “Macintosh in a book”, which he predicted in early 80s and essentially became the iPad of 2010. There’s also the…
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Steve Jobs to Appear In Court Over iPod Lawsuit (Yes, Really)
No, you are not seeing things, that headline is true. In an example of Steve Jobs’ superhuman nature, tomorrow he will appear in court to argue over an iPod antitrust case. He isn’t exactly rising from the dead, but rather he will appear in a video deposition recorded before his…
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Sony Drops Steve Jobs Movie, Universal “Interested”
In the never ending story of the pre-production of a big budget movie based on Walter Issacson’s Steve Jobs biography, a new twist was just announced, as Sony Pictures decided to pull the plug on funding the movie. The film, written by Alan Sorkin, the same writer behind The Social Network, and to…
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Tablets Through The Years
When Moses came down from the mountain with the stone tablets, the people said: “That’s all very well, but what are we supposed to do with them?” Moses was so angry that he smashed them to pieces and had to go and get some more from God, and that’s more…
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Tim Cook Commemorates Anniversary Of Steve Jobs’ Death
Wow, has it really been two years already! I have to admit that I am far from being an Apple fan, but I have nothing but respect for what they have created, the iPad, iPhone and iPod have dominated markets for ages now, millions upon millions of Apple fans appear…
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