Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ company may constantly belittle Microsoft in its ads, but in all accuracy, there’s a lot of love between the companies. A large number of Macs run Windows installs via boot camp. And a large number of Windows users interact with Apple products such as the iPods and iPhone.
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Bill Gates Says Steve Jobs is Inspirational
How Apple Trounced Nokia with the iPhone
This week, I saw an interesting video in which Nokia showcases its “vision” for 2015. As you watch it, there are very few things the iPhone doesn’t do today. Nokia’s vision is to end up in five years where Apple currently is, effectively forecasting a future where Apple is dominant. Today Apple passed Nokia as the most profitable cell phone vender, and Samsung dropped Symbian (Nokia’s operating system) support. Nokia clearly isn’t having a good week, but that is actually more Nokia’s fault than Apple’s.
We’ve seen giants like Nokia toppled several times – both General Motors and Novell come to mind, for instance. Let’s talk about why this happens.
Fortune Names Steve Jobs CEO of the Decade
Everyone knows that awards and accolades that single out any single person in a complicated event, field, or industry is rife with problems: just ask the Nobel Prize committee or the people responsible for picking Time magazine’s “Person of the Year.” But if nothing else, those laurels are useful for sparking public discussion…and Fortune magazine has probably stirred up a hornet’s nest of controversy for its pick for “CEO of the Decade:” Apple’s Steve Jobs.
Google’s Schmidt Leaves Apple Board
Apple has announced that Google CEO Eric Schmidt is resigning his position on Apple’s Board of Directors, owing to potential conflicts of interest as Google and Apple begin to compete in a wider number of businesses. Although Apple is not horning in on Google’s Internet search business, Google and Apple already butt heads on mobile phones (with the iPhone and Google Android), and Google’s recently announced Chrome OS will have the company’s competing on operating systems and (potentially) even computing hardware.
Apple App Store hits 1.5 Billion Downloads
Some folks might still be thinking that the idea of mobile applications is just a flash in the pan, but there’s a reason Research in Motion, Microsoft, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and other industry players are all hustling to get their own application stores up and running: in the year since Apple introduced its App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch, users have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications. Like the iTunes Store before it, Apple looks to be setting the bar for the mobile applications business, with over 100,000 developers signed up for its program and over 65,000 applications available for its mobile platforms.
What Apple Knew About Jobs’s Health Under SEC Scrutiny
The Securities and Exchange Commission is launching an investigation into just how much Apple knew about the illness of company head Steve Jobs, and how much it disclosed, including whether it misled investors, according to Bloomberg.
Jobs has recently returned to work after a five-month absence, during which he underwent a liver transplant. Back in January he said he was taking leave to treat what he described as a “hormonal imbalance” but would continue as CEO. Just nine days after that things changed, as Jobs said his health situation was "more complex than I originally thought."
Jobs Back At Work
After six months off work, during which he reportedly underwent a liver transplant, Steve Jobs is officially back at work at his company, Apple.
The 54-year-old has said he’d be back at work by the end of June and kept his word by appearing at company headquarters in California yesterday.
An Apple spokesman said:
"Steve is back to work."
However, he won’t be in the office full time immediately, the spokesman continued:
"He’s currently at Apple a few days a week and working from home the remaining days. We are very glad to have him back."
Steve Jobs Back At Work
First they said he’d be back before the end of the month. Now two reports have chief executive Steve Jobs back at work at Apple’s Silicon Valley headquarters yesterday.
CNBC’s Jim Goldman wrote in the TechCheck column:
"Confirmed! Steve Jobs did report for work today, according to employees who have seen him on campus."
Reuters also quoted sources saying Jobs "was seen leaving the main Apple building in Cupertino and getting into a black car alone that was driven off by men in black suits with ear-pieces."
He was quoted in a press release on sales figures for the new iPhone 3GS.
AACS Finalizes Managed Copy for Blu-ray Discs
The Advanced Access Content System License Authority—AACSLA—has posted finalized specifications for the digital rights management system to be used on Blu-ray discs…and the final spec allows for so-called “managed copies,” whereby consumers will be able to make a pre-determined number of copies of content on Blu-ray media for personal use—although the number of copies is determined by the studios, and the copy is still protected with AACS or Microsoft DRM.
Palm Appoints Jon Rubenstein to CEO Job
Palm just rolled out its Palm pre smartphone on Sprint, in a high-profile move designed to put the company back at the forefront of the mobile technology industry and give the Apple iPhone a serious run for its money. Now, Palm is making another high-profile play, appointing former iPod developer Jon Rubenstein to the CEO position.
Rubenstein joined Palm from Apple in October 2007 as Executive Chairman; he’ll take over the reins from Ed Colligan on June 12. Colligan says he plans to take time off, then join Elevation Partners, a private equity firm that counts U2’s Bono as one of its high profile investors—and which, incidentally, has been one of Palm’s backers as the company tries to re-assert itself in the technology industry. Rubenstein joined Pal when Elevation put its first stake in the company.
