Monday, October 08, 2012

The Best Steve Jobs Moments In History [Video Gallery]

via Cult of Mac by Buster Heine on 10/5/12

 

Steve Jobs had a stage presence like no one else. He was just pedaling tech products, but the man captivated his audiences like he was Jimi Hendrix or Elvis or John Lenon. Steve didn’t just introduce a new computer or new iPod, he was selling a philosophy and way of life, and once he activated his reality distortion field on stage you were spellbound by his performance.

There are tons of amazing Steve Jobs videos on the internet, but we’ve gone out and collected the ones that we think are the best. Not just the videos where he introduces products, but also his candid interviews where Steve reveals his thoughts on life. We hope you enjoy them just as much as we do.

Stanford Commencement Speech in 2005

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at D8

Steve Jobs Unveiling The Macintosh

Steve Jobs Talking About The Crazy Ones

Steve At MacWorld 1997 Revealing Microsoft Partnership

Steve Jobs’s Demo Fails

Steve Introduces The First iMac

Steve Jobs and John Lasseter Talk Pixar

Steve Introduces the iPod in 2001

Steve Jobs Talking About The Secret of Life

Steve Introduces The iPhone in 2007

Steve Jobs Presentation From 1980

Steve Introduces The iPad in 2010

 

If you think we’ve overlooked one of your favorite Steve Jobs moments, post a link to it in the comments and we’ll add it to the gallery.

 

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Apple Remembers Steve Jobs With Tribute Video On Homepage

via Cult of Mac by Buster Heine on 10/5/12

Steve Jobs passed away one year ago today, and to remember the former Apple co-founder and CEO, Apple.com has posted a moving video tribute to Steve. The video starts with Steve reciting a quote by Wayne Gretzky - “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”

The video then takes viewers on a brief survey of Jobs’ life at Apple and various keynotes and speeches which pictures of Steve. You can watch the full video right now on Apple’s website.

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Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Is This Why Apple Is Making The iPad Mini? Probably Not [Opinion]

via Cult of Mac by Rob LeFebvre on 10/3/12

According to a new report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, one in four adults in the United States owns a tablet of some kind. Two thirds of those adults have purchased them in the last year, according to the study, which was reported by The Economist. Further, the data doesn’t even include the new Google Nexus tablet, nor the new Kindle Fire HD from Amazon.

Is iPad in trouble? Is this a new era for Apple, one in which it must play catch up? The numbers of units do seem to tell that story.

I’m not buying it, though.

While Steve Jobs famously said that a smaller iPad was stupid, we also know Steve Jobs said a lot of things that he didn’t really mean, usually around a product he was tinkering with in the kitchen at Apple that he wasn’t ready to sign off on, yet. It could be that his dismissal of a smaller iPad mini was more about his readiness to bring such a device to market, rather than his actual hatred of the concept.

Secondly, thanks to some Apple v Samsung court documents, we know how much revenue the iPad brought in over the last couple of years. AllThingsD’s Ina Fried sums it up, nicely, saying, “From the fourth quarter of 2010 through the middle of 2012, Samsung sold 1.4 million Galaxy Tab and Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets, generating $644 million in revenue. Over the same time period, Apple sold 29.7 million iPads, generating $14.8 billion.”

Lets take another look at the data.

We see the difference in tablet ownership between 2011 and now, with Android tablets taking a good run a the iPad ownership numbers, increasing to 48% of tablet ownership. That seems scary. But is it really?

Apple focuses all of its creativity, marketing and engineering, on one product in each category. It has a smartphone, desktop computers, laptop computers, and now tablets. This is not a large consumer electronics company that creates dozens of categories of devices like TVs and refrigerators and washing machines, each with several models to choose from. The release of a smaller iPad is only occurring because the original device, the iPad, is fully matured. When did Apple release new iPods? When the old ones had already completely taken over the market. MP3 players existed before the original iPod, but now we call all MP3 players iPods.

This is the same Apple road map that has been around for quite some time. The iPad mini is coming out because it meets Apple’s timeline, not that of its competitors.

That it will most likely beat them all if it’s priced and marketed well is a different article, entirely.

Source: The Economist Group
Via: TechnoBuffalo

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Monday, October 01, 2012

They look nice

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Yes I told you

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