You can now watch the peculiar Funny or Die Steve Jobs movie iSteve. The 78 minute flick starring Justin Long as Steve Jobs was the third Steve Jobs biopic announced but the first to release. I think there’s an award for that or something. You can watch the full length movie at Funny or Die here. [Funny or Die via 9to5Mac] More »
Steve Jobs believed that innovation was fostered by hiring the right people and not by how many R&D dollars the company had. He made comparisons between Apple and IBM, when the original Mac came out IBM was spending a lot more on R&D, but the Mac held its ground firmly because it was a good product. Apple is certainly living by that motto, hiring the right people, but the right people don’t work for free. In fact Apple employs four of the top five best paid executives in the entire country.
Bob Mansfield, Bruce Sewell, Jeffrey Willams and Peter Oppenheimer are the four top earners at Standard & Poor’s 500 companies, this list has been made on the fiscal 2012 compensation figures for about 80% of S&P 500 companies. The compensation that Apple doles out for these four executives is largely in stock, thus surging their net worth on paper. Bob Mansfield is at the top of this list, he’s Senior Vice President of Technologies, and had a base salary of US$805,400 in 2012 while being awarded US$85.5 million in stock options. The only other American executive that earned more than these four Apple employees is Larry Ellison, of Oracle fame, who was also a close friend of Steve Jobs. He pulled in US$96.2 million in 2012.
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Steve Jobs has always been fascinating as a figure. Various stories about his presentation style and how he worked have been widely reported and read. For some, who have merely scratched the surface of his personality, Steve Jobs is only the visionary who made and then decades later turned Apple around. Jobs had a significant role in the formation of Pixar Animation Studios, it is no secret that he kept the studio afloat by pumping in millions of dollars of his own money till they were able to release Toy Story. This was Pixar’s first feature film and it become a major hit. Years later he sold Pixar to Disney for some $4 billion in shares.
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Speaking at the National Association of Broadcasters, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdams talked about how data is used on Verizon’s pipes… and a story about how he convinced Steve Jobs to put LTE on the iPhone 5. More »
Last month Funny or Die announced that it was making a Steve Jobs biopic all of its own, called iSteve—and now the trailer has landed for you to watch. More »
The iPhone is a hot commodity, and so it isn’t surprising that over half of the reported smartphone thefts in San Francisco concerned the Apple-branded handset. San Fran’s District Attorney George Gascon has been meeting with phone makers in light of the growing number of phone thefts, discussing with them the creation of a standard kill-switch for disabling a handset that has been stolen. Eventually he met with Apple’s government liaison, and had some interesting things to say about the encounter.
The liaison was Michael Foulkes, and he reportedly spoke with the DA for an hour, a conversation that was, apparently, mostly worthless. Gascon said that he didn’t get much in the conversation, with Foulkes doing the majority of the talking. “It was incredible. He would just go on and on, one subject to the next. It was hard to follow. It was almost like someone who’s been trained in the art of doing a lot of talking and saying nothing.”
The liaison then went on to talk about the kill-switch system that the DA is wanting to see unified among phone makers, something the Apple worker said would be “long and laborious” in terms of both research and development. Phone users, at least for the time being, would have to be content with using software to find and terminate their mobile device.
Another issue presented, according to the interview, was that the next two iterations of the iPhone have already been developed. Even more interesting than that, however, is the statement that both of the iPhones “preceded Tim Cook,” indicating that they were possibly developed under the late Steve Jobs. Which iPhones, specifically, the liaison reportedly referenced isn’t known.
[via 9to5Mac]
Apple’s government liaison indicates next two iPhones were designed during Jobs’ reign is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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An interesting tidbit came our way just now. If we’re to believe Apple’s government liaison Michael Foulkes, then the next two iPhones have already been designed. He says that these designs preceded Tim Cook, meaning that they were designed under the legend himself, Steve Jobs. Steve passed away back in 2011, around the time the iPhone 4S was announced. The revelation comes from San Francisco DA George Gascón, who has been meeting with device manufacturers and carriers in a bid to figure out a plan for curtailing phone thefts.
Gascón isn’t exactly a fan of Apple’s government liaison, the report says. He termed the meeting as underwhelming, adding that Michael would just talk on and on, as if he had been trained in the art of talking and saying nothing. He also talked about a “kill switch” concept that Michael mentioned. The switch in future iPhones could help curtail theft, though the next two iPhones have already been designed. Michael says they were designed before Tim Cook, which basically means that Steve Jobs knew about three generations of iPhone that were going to be introduced after the iPhone 4S.
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Today several bits of a couple of speeches made by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and another Macintosh legend have surfaced via a friendly holder of several VHS recordings of a 1984 meeting of the Apple Pi computer club. These tapes recorded Woz and Apple Employee #6 Randy Wigginton speaking at the Denver Apple Pi computer club back on October 4th 1984, and are being digitized and cleaned for your enjoyment this weekend. Don’t miss the “Pledge of Apple Allegiance”, whatever you do.
These videos were submitted initially to Tuaw where a reader by the name of Vince Patton notes that he’s in the process of making sure all of the tapes are transferred and that watchable video is produced from the source material. These videos are all being displayed at Patton’s YouTube channel where you can enjoy them in kind – we’ll also be embedding each of them in this post, of course.
First you’ll see an epic moment in the history of computing that you’ll be glad you took the time to click. Here Woz leads the club in the Pledge of Apple Allegiance, complete with the following lines:
I pledge allegiance
to the logo
of corporate marketing in Cupertino.
And to the computers
for which it stands:
one notion
under Jobs –
indispensable
hardware and software for all.
Make sure you commit that one to memory, dear readers.
Next you’ve got Woz speaking on pranking a hotel, hacking a Video on Demand box, and re-numbering a telephone. Immediately following that, you’ll find a video about additional pranks and wild times Woz had as a college students, including a choice note about how he’d used a TV jammer more than once.
A bit of a break from Woz for a moment, you’ve got Randy Wigginton speaking about the aversion of a near disaster 6 days before the original launch of Macintosh. He goes through the heart-pounding several days before Macintosh had to be launched as a software package, explaining that at 2 o’clock in the morning on the day they had to send the final build out at 6 o’clock in the morning (four hours later), the situation should very well have given their team all panic attacks: “nothing worked.”
Once again with Woz you’ll find a description of how the Apple II was created. This should enlighten your life even if you never used that magical machine, complete with its massive floppy disk drive and connectivity with the epic Koala Pad. This machine was many users of my generation’s first encounter with an Apple product, as the big A had a rather important link with grade schools at that time.
With one good turn comes another – next you’ll see Woz speak about the creation of the Apple I (which of course was created before the Apple II). Inside you’ll have found a fabulous note about how the Apple I worked with 4k dynamic RAM built-in even though it was more difficult to design for – and how no other system worked with that advanced feature for a year (or even two) after they’d done it. This is an absolutely unthinkable situation today.
Below you’ll see Woz speak on how Steve Jobs formed Apple Computer knowing full well he’d have to lose some money before he made any.
Woz returns with more information about how he was put on probation at the University of Colorado for “Computer Abuse”. Such is the life of a young genius, yes?
Finally, (for now), you’ll see Woz recall the point at which he was forced to quit his job at HP and put his efforts toward Apple full-time. This is an iteration of the story of Apple’s creation that we’ve never seen before today, spoken by none other than one of the two men who founded the company. Consider that for a moment, won’t you?
We’d like to thank Patton for his work in translating this all to digital video this week and look forward to the rest of the media without a doubt. Let us know if you hear any other hidden treasures in your viewing of these clips, too!
Weekend Watch list: rediscovered VHS tapes of Woz speaking at 1984 Apple Pi club is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Because there can never be too many Steve Jobs biopics coming out at essentially the exact same time, we now have a third feature-length film to add to the czar of Apple’s roster. Unlike the others, though, this one took considerably less time to complete. So in a mere matter of weeks, Funny or Die will present iSteve. More »
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