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Stories tagged with: apple
10 Surprises We Have Learned About Steve Jobs
http://macapper.com/2012/02/06/10-surprises-we-have-learned-...
With a bestselling biography by Walter Isaacson on the shelves, the public has learned many shocking details about the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs since he succumbed to cancer in October of 2011. In addition to the surprising allegations of refusal to pay child support to the mother of his eldest daughter and the story behind his black turtleneck uniform, here are ten other surprises that have come out since his untimely demise.
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Why Apple Should Make A 3D Printer
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/why-ap...
The progression that computers made from IBM to your laptop has patterned the expectations for all future technologies. First, big companies create and use a very expensive set of technologies. Then, garage tinkerers start to use slightly cheaper, smaller versions of the original technology. They create a culture that makes the technology easier to use and they give it more users, which drives down its costs. Finally, when it is sufficiently cheap and easy to use, mass market consumers start to buy it. This is a condensed, reductive history of consumer electronics, but it's the mental model Silicon Valley-types have.
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Beijing Apple store pelted with eggs at iPhone 4S launch
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/13/beijing-app...
Angry customers and organised gangs of touts threw eggs at Apple's store in Beijing after disturbances broke out when they were told that the shop would not open as planned for the first sales of the iPhone4S.
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A tasteless iDea? Steve Jobs is immortalised as an action-figure just three months after his death
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2081404/Steve-Jobs-i...
Just three months after Steve Jobs passed away, a pair of toy companies have unveiled an action-figure of the late Apple CEO.Called the iCEO mini, it's a 12-inch action figure made in his likeness.
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‘Ship Today, Update Tomorrow’: The Modern Tablet Credo
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/12/amazons-kindle-fire-u...
Of all the major hardware players, Amazon seemed best-equipped to battle Apple in the tablet market. Backed by Amazon’s massive resources, an online store full of content, and a very aggressive pricing strategy, the $200 Kindle Fire appealed to any consumer unwilling to spend $500 on an entry-level iPad 2.
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The TV that understands whatever you shout at it
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2066976/The-T...
The Apple computer company is devising an interactive television set, nicknamed iTV, that can understand your gestures and speech.
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Apple vs Samsung
http://www.onlinemba.com/blog/apple-vs-samsung/
Apple and Samsung engaged in a heated mobile device patent war consisting of many legal battles in several different contries. Here it has described about the origin of the dispute and where it stands today.
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Tags: apple, samsung, rivalry, Gadgets, technology, Dispute
Indians slam Apple for launching iPhone 4S at much higher price than its US retail cost
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/hardware/indians-sl...
At its launch price ofRs 44,500, the iPhone 4S will indeed be costlier in India than anywhere else in the world, though it will be available about 10% cheaper on several online shopping sites such as ebay.
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Two Schools of Thought: The Key Difference Between Apple and Google
http://mashable.com/2011/11/08/apple-google-data-vs-design/
Apple and Google may look similar on the surface, but the companies couldn’t be any more different. That much has become clear to me after reading both the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson and Steven Levy’s In the Plex.
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The 12 Most Secretive Companies in America
http://www.onlinemba.com/blog/the-12-most-secretive-companie...
Companies have plenty of good reasons to keep things under wraps, whether they’re trade secrets, upcoming products, or even confidential government contracts.
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Tags: companies, America, Secretive, apple, marketing
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