Video: Woz Calls Jobs ‘Greatest Tech Leader of Our Time’

It would be difficult to overstate the significance of Steve Jobs to Apple, and harder still to overstate Apple’s influence on the tech sector. Jobs was the towering figure behind a towering company.

So says Steve Wozniak, the man who founded Apple with Jobs. Wozniak waxed poetic about Jobs in an interview with Bloomberg. He spoke at length about Jobs’ leadership, the culture he created at Apple and the future of the company.

“He’s always going to be remembered, at least for the next hundred years, as the greatest technology business leader of our time,” Woz said of Jobs.

[via Bloomberg Television]


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I am confident our best years lie ahead of us and that together we will continue to make Apple the magical place that it is.

Read the full text of the letter after the break.

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WebKit turns 10, celebrates a decade of speedy, standards-compliant browsing

WebKitIt’s hard to believe but WebKit, the rendering engine inside Safari and Chrome, is now ten years old. The forked child of KDE’s KHTML received its first commit of code from Apple back on August 24th of 2001. It would be well over a year before the debut of Safari in 2003, and another two years before it was fully open sourced. Since then it’s begun to replace Gecko (Mozilla) as the rendering engine du jour and even spawned a sequel in Webkit2. So, happy birthday to Apple’s greatest contribution to the open source community.

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Android Malware Explodes, iOS Remains Safe

Android malware jumped 76 percent since last quarter. Image credit McAfee

According to a report by antivirus software maker McAfee, Android is now the “most attacked mobile operating system,” with a jump in malware attacks of 76 percent in the last quarter. This impressive win is even more so when you consider that Android “outpaces second place Java ME threefold”.

While we are normally skeptical of scary announcements from anti-malware companies, this is McAfee’s regular quarterly report outlining the state of general security, so the numbers are probably good.

Interestingly, you’ll see that iOS doesn’t appear on the above chart at all. It seems like Android’s “open” nature is indeed open, in that anyone can put any software, including malware, on your phone. John Gruber of Daring Fireball sums it up thusly: “Remember the old argument about Apple platforms not getting malware only because they weren’t popular enough to attract attention?”

So what’s the solution? Crapware! Over at PC Pro, Mike Jennings got a new Android phone to play with.

On Friday, I eased the Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro from its box, turned it on, and was greeted with a message urging me to set up McAfee WaveSecure before I’d even set up the phone with my Google account.

While this scary first experience might help to make Windows users feel at home, there’s no way we should have to deal with this kind of crap on our mobile devices, especially as we have a lot more personal information on there than we do on our computers. It certainly makes a powerful argument for Apple’s conservative, controlled approach.

McAfee Q2 2011 Threats Report Shows Significant Growth for Malware on Mobile Platforms [McAfee]

Malware slams Android, but not iOS [The Loop]

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Soon after, Jobs would resign, going on to form NeXT. The company never managed sales figures anywhere near the previous endeavor, but its products would prove highly influential, forming, among other things, the basis of Apple’s paradigm-shifting OS X operating system. While Steve Jobs was focused on NeXT and The Graphic Group — the company that would later morph into the far more familiar Pixar — Apple suffered a series of defeats.

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