Reuters ran this photoset of Steve Jobs mugshots that really shows the stark decline in Jobs’ health over the years. Good luck, chairman of the board.
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Letter from Steve Jobs
August 24, 2011
To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:
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
Shortly after this letter was published, Apple announced that the board has elected Steve Jobs as Chairman and Tim Cook is now CEO and board member.
End of an era.
MP3tunes ruling opens the door for online music lockers
Google and Amazon could well be allowed to run their music locker cloud service without having to seek permission from record labels as the judge in the mp3tunes case puts the responsibility in users’ hands instead of the site’s operators’.
mp3tunes was found to infringe only on songs that it new were pirated but did not remove following a notice.
the DMCA imposes no obligation to investigate potentially infringing activity absent a specific complaint from copyright holders. The only exception is links to sites with URLs containing “red flag” words like “pirate” or “bootleg.
The quoted paragraph above means that without a specific notice from copyright holders, a site’s operator has no obligation to voluntarily check whether files stored in its servers are infringing on copyrights.
This has been up for two weeks but I haven’t got around to posting it. Here’s Steve Jobs presenting Apple’s proposal for a new campus in Cupertino to the city council. The campus would be notable not only for its spaceship-like architecture but for its size, features (fits 12 thousand people, adds more than 2000 new trees, removes 90% ground level parking, self generated electrcity, etc) and impact to the city of Cupertino and its neighboring cities of Santa Clara and Sunnyvale. Think about the traffic flow, housing arrangements, electricity consumption, business, economy, ecology, air quality, level of interest, and so on.
Here’s the proposed location on Google Maps.
Apple could buy nearly all of its phone competitors in cash
Indeed, a time may soon come when Apple’s cash will be worth more than the entire phone industry.
Apple’s Three Laws of Developers
- A developer may not injure Apple or, through inaction, allow Apple to come to harm.
- A developer must obey any orders given to it by Apple, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
- A developer must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
— I. Developer
Introducing The iCard
Not surprising to hear that NFC is coming to the iPhone given that this is already built into the Nexus S. But good to hear nonetheless.
Interesting that it’s said to be built into the iPad 2 as well…
They key here is it being tied into your iTunes account (or some variation). That would be beyond a massive win for both NFC and Apple.
Imagine if they could get a cut of all those transactions —I mean, just think about that for a second. It’s hard to know what to say about that. Something with a lot of superlatives.
the Microsoft of 2011 doesn’t compete effectively with the Apple of 2007
Paul Thurrot compared the first three months of Windows Phone 7 to the iPhone’s first three months back in 2007. Microsoft has publicly released nothing in three months to improve WP7 while Apple from August to October 2007 had released bug and security fixes, new features and new services for iOS.
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