Biography of Steve Jobs became best selling book of 2011 on Amazon
Few people could dispute the influence Apple’s co founder Steve Jobs had on high tech industry and thus on the rest of the whole world. Despite him being a giant of technology and business, he had somehow also embodied a certain level of inspiration, hope and personal magic for many people around the world. He practically became a superstar and a inspiration to many geeks and entrepreneurs, budding to reach at least a part of success he had with all the different projects he was involved with.
Museum opens Steve Jobs exhibit
Well known Computer History Museum based in Mountain View, CA has just launched an online exhibit about Steve Jobs, cofounder and mastermind behind Apple’ stellar success. “Steve Jobs: from garage to worlds most valuable company” is following Steve Jobs footsteps from his beginning in Cupertino high school and the legendary Homebrew computer club which was dedicated to first microcomputers, his education and his first steps in building up what we known today as Apple.
Kindle Fire, the best competitor to iPad
The only tablet that comes relatively close to Apple iPad is the recently launched Kindle Fire, made by Amazon. But according to this research done by market analysts in iSuppli probing the market demand for this quarter, it seems that the Amazon’s Fire is already having slight sales numbers decline. So no matter the formidable competition by Amazon, Apple iPad still has a large advantage when it comes to tablet sales numbers. Cupertino has already shipped more than 18.5 million of tablets in this quarter only. Although Amazon’s new Kindle Fire product is the second best tablet out there, Amazon has netted only 3.9 million sales during the same quarter.
Steve Jobs video: what is life about
Steve Jobs was certainly one of the most influential individuals of our times. What is the reason for such stellar growth of fame and influence? That is probably more a topic for some serious study or for a self help book than for a blog post. But nonetheless, in this extremely short video you can see one of deep insights made by Steve. Perhaps this is the most important thought he ever shared with the public. The life is what other people invented – and you should not simply bow to other people’s ideas, because you can influence your life and the whole world through your work and your ideas. And he was certainly someone who was true to himself and always followed his own advices.
Apple vs Samsung: Australian courts
Federal court in Australia has now blocked the earlier injunction against Samsung’s tablet Galaxy Tab 10.1 after South Korean company appealed on the decision to ban sales of the tablet in Australia. Apple is apparently not happy at all with this decision and will as a countermeasure appeal to the court in order to keep the injunction against the sale of Samsung’s latest tablet. To remind you, Apple is rigorously opposing Samsung on the basis that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is a device modelled on Apple’s iPad 2 tablet. Because of this Apple has started a worldwide campaign including lawsuits in EU and Australia.
New Apple ad for iPod Touch released
Apple has launched another nice looking ad. This time they wanted to promote latest iPod Touch model. The theme of the ad is: ‘Share the Fun’. iPod Touch is a device clearly designated for having fun and playing games and the add puts a heavy accent on that aspects of the device. You can see young people using Face Time, tweeting, iMessage texting, playing games and much more. Just as it is in the real life.
Apple becoming the largest vendor of personal computers
Apple has achieved phenomenal growth during the last couple of years. Besides ruling the market with their iOS devices including smartphones like iPhone 4S and iPhone 4, Apple is also absolutely dominant on the tablet market with their iPad tablets. Now latest reports and predictions point that Apple will soon rise above all competitors in the PC industry, including HP. These predictions came from Canalys, a well known analyst company which included tablets in the PC industry with remarks about tablet computing changing the world of PC’s. Their data shows that Apple had scored growth levels going up from 9% to 15% during the last four quarters only.
Apple releases iPad 2 commercial: Love
A new commercial by Apple has just being launched And as with all previous commercial by Apple it is short, warm and goes straight to the point. It is all about love!
Old documentary about Steve Jobs
There is documentary on Steve Jobs and his life made available at Next website, which shows details about Steve Jobs, his unique business ideas, methods and his overall intriguing personality. This video documentary was made for and old television show: ‘ Entrepreneurs’ by WETA. Most remarkable parts of this documentary covers Steve Jobs interacting with Joanna Hofman, which was one of the core members of his team at that time. Jobs relationship with his crew and especially his behavior regarding the shipment delays which can bee seen at 10:15, give an especially clear picture of his management approaches. You can see the whole documentary in the Youtube video bellow.
iPad enabled snowboard, a tribute to Steve Jobs
iShred is a snowboard which is equipped with an iPad tablet. This tablet snowboard cross was made by people in Every Third Tuesday group, as a tribute to legendary founder of Apple, Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was a person which has inspired many creative individuals and teams in various areas of technology, arts and many other fields. As they people behind this interesting snowboard claim, Steve Jobs was responsible for devices which many snowboarders are using and depending on in their adventurous lives. You can see the process, how exactly did they develop, upgrade and finally build this special snowboard in the video bellow. Just like in any Apple product, the whole concept goes from a brilliant (or not so brilliant ) idea through various testing stages to a final great device.
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