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Tag Archives: Steve Jobs
Videos: The Guy Who Sold the Apple Docs For $1.6 Million and the Guy Who Sold Them for $500 (After Bowing Out of Apple in 1976)
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The mania of postmortem remembrance of Steve Jobs may have reached its apotheosis on Tuesday when the founding documents of Apple — signed by Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and a third partner — were bought at auction for $1.59 million. The … Continue reading
Apple Computer's Founding Contract Sold for $1.59 Million; Listen to the Bidding
Update Dec 14 The documents originally belonged to Ronald Wayne, an original partner of Jobs and Wozniak who bowed out only 11 days after incorporating (ouch). According to Bloomberg, Wayne sold the papers for several thousand dollars (ouch again) in … Continue reading
Interview With Steve Jobs' Biographer Walter Isaacson
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Live at 10 a.m., the culture continues its non-stop fascination with Steve Jobs when Michael Krasny talks to Walter Isaacson, whose biography of the man is currently No. 1 on the NY Times nonfiction best seller list and was also … Continue reading
Interview: Apple Employee No. 12 Dan Kottke on the Macintosh, Jobs and Woz, Stock Options (Pt 2)
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Two weeks ago we posted Part 1 of Peter Jon Shuler's interview with Dan Kottke, aka Apple employee No. 12. Kottke first met Jobs when both attended Reed College in Oregon and the two became close friends, traveling to India … Continue reading
Interview: Apple Employee No. 12 Dan Kottke on Company's Earliest Days and the College Steve Jobs
Remembering Steve Jobs has almost become a cottage industry. Walter Isaacson's biography is No. 1 on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction li st; Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview has been playing in movie houses around the country; and a … Continue reading
Video: Apple's Steve Jobs Memorial
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It's a few days old, but if you haven't seen it yet: Apple posted video of the memorial for Steve Jobs it held on its campus in Cupertino. Watch it here. The ceremony included Apple CEO Tim Cook, Apple board … Continue reading
Video: Watch the "60 Minutes" Interview With Steve Jobs' Biographer Walter Isaacson
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Here is Part 1 of tonight's "60 Minutes" segment with Walter Isaacson, whose biography on Steve Jobs is available Monday. Mashable summarizes the highlights. Here is Part 2 Jobs himself was on "60 Minutes" in 2003, talking about the origins … Continue reading
Biographer: Jobs Tried Exotic Treatments to Fight Cancer; Watch '60 Minutes' Preview
A new biography of Steve Jobs details the choices he made in his cancer treatment. As first reported by Fortune in 2008, Jobs delayed recommended surgery when diagnosed. The day after Jobs died, we blogged about The Daily Beast post … Continue reading
Animated Video: History of the iPhone
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From the first mobile phone call to the invention of the Web to the principles of good design to iPhone software and hardware, all culminating in an animated Steve Jobs presenting the little beauty. From CNET UK.
Steve Jobs' "Think Different" Philosophy Included Approach to Cancer Treatment
Since Steve Jobs’ resignation as Apple CEO in August, many of the basic facts of his disease have been widely written about. Jobs had a rare form of pancreatic cancer, Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors. The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post both feature … Continue reading
