Steve Jobs
Sales clerks work at an Apple store in Manila as a placard mourns the death of Apple co-founder and chairman Steve Jobs (portrait) on October 7, 2011. The world mourned the premature passing of the Apple visionary, who revolutionised computers and transformed modern life with inventions like the iPhone and iPad. Steve Jobs died at 56 of pancreatic cancer on October 5.
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Well, the Apple 1, there where only 200 built and they came out of the garage of Steve Jobs. And then Apple had a trading programme, because they wanted to bring them back, so they destroyed a lot of trade ins. So, it was about 46 of them today. So, it's really the holy grail of collectable technology.
Those people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do
Here when you have somebody who comes back from the past ... say Michael Dell [at Dell], we've seen that or Howard Schultz of Starbucks [and] of course the legendary move of the return to power of Steve Jobs [at Apple], it can be great.More quotes »
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Vintage'76 Apple 1 signed by Jobs, Wozniak sells for whopping 650000 dollars
dollars at an auction in Germany. The Apple 1 belongs to the category of the first 50 computers built by Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, the BBC reports. According to the report, the computer has been sold to an anonymous buyer from Asia and 2:33 AM from Sify Read more »
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Tim Cook gets the job done
been 19 months since the death of Steve Jobs, the Apple founder, and Jobs’ choice of Tim Cook to replace him as CEO has had many people questioning his judgment — that is, until last week. Although Jobs groomed Cook for years, Cook’s public persona often fell 5/25/13 from New York Post Read more »
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How Tumblr's David Karp hit Yahoo jackpot
Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg have all shown that tech geniuses don't need degrees to succeed. But David Karp, who sold blogging forum Tumblr for US$1.1 billion last week, has shown you don't even need a high school diploma. Karp's mother gave him 5/25/13 from SCMP Read more »
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Steve Jobs: on Android Versus The iPhone
people have read this story Steve Jobs talks about how the iPhone App store will provide centralized security to prevent hacking. Steve's answer anticipates the problems with an open App system, such as Android. This was recorded prior to the launch of the 5/25/13 from Experience Project Read more »
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This Apple-1 is the Most Expensive Apple Computer Ever
software. Except that the computer in question is an Apple-1, the bare-bones machine which Steve Wozniak designed and Steve Jobs marketed in 1976, shortly before they devised the groundbreaking and wildly popular Apple II. As the New York Times' Steve Lohr 5/25/13 from Time Magazine Read more »
