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Steve Jobs was initially opposed to apps, new biography reveals originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Steve Jobs was the man most often associated with Apple, but another Steve played a big part in the formation of the company, and Mr. Wozniak has some kind words about his friend and former business partner. Well said, Woz.

Steve Wozniak on Steve Jobs originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back

— Steve Jobs, 1985

That’s a quote from a Playboy interview Steve Jobs gave back in 1985. February of 1985, to be specific, right before Steve would be ousted from the company that he co-founded with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in 1976. Apple of course famously grew out of a garage, the brains of Woz, the drive of Jobs building the company over the next nine years into a powerhouse in the burgeoning home computer market.

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Steve Jobs in his own words originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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After the two most craziest weeks ever in the history of the mobile technology news universe, it’s important to step back and just take stock of everything: a survey course, if you will. That’s why we’ve created Engadget Mobile Podcast 101, your first stop on the road to an otherworldly state we call CMA: Complete Mobile Awareness. Come along, won’t you?

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00:02:23 – Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple
00:10:00 – Tim Cook: Who is Apple’s new CEO?
00:25:27 – iPhone 5 coming to Sprint, other carriers in mid-October?
00:27:27 – App logs reportedly confirm dual mode CDMA / GSM iPhone 5 in testing
00:41:15 – Apple to release cheaper, 8GB iPhone 4 within weeks?
00:49:58 – Samsung Galaxy S II not coming to Verizon after all? (update: confirmed)
00:53:25 – Sprint’s Epic Touch 4G may be first US-bound Galaxy S II, arriving September 9th?
00:55:39 – Trio of US Samsung Galaxy S II models get together for a group photo?
01:04:05 – Samsung debuts new Galaxy lineup, refines naming strategy along the way
01:11:46 – Nokia announces Symbian Belle alongside three new devices
01:21:28 – Microsoft: Windows Phone Tango will be minor update, is meant for low-end handsets
01:25:35 – Microsoft: front facing cameras, Skype integration coming with Mango update (video)
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Engadget Mobile Podcast 101 – 08.27.2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Let there be no question: ours would be a very different industry, were it not for Steve Jobs. Few, if any individuals have had so profound an effect on their given spaces; a unprecedented track record that began in 1976 with the co-founding of Apple. In earliest incarnation, the company would prove the driving force of the personal computer explosion of the early ’80s, beginning with the Apple II — one of the industry’s first hugely popular microcomputers. The Macintosh shook things up yet again, a launch celebrated by the debut of the “1984” ad during that year’s Superbowl. That line helped break both the graphical user interface and the mouse to a massive audience.

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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Steve Jobs’ Apple: a timeline originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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