Category: CEO

Tim Cook Sends Email to Apple Employees on Anniversary Of Steve Jobs’ Passing

Tim cook sent and email out to Apple Employees this week mentioning the anniversary of Steve Jobs’ passing. Team, Today marks four years since Steve passed away. On that day, the world lost a visionary. We at Apple lost a leader, a mentor, and many of us lost a dear friend. Steve was a brilliant person, and his priorities were very simple. He loved his family above all, he loved Apple, and he loved the people with whom he worked…

The Northern Spy — January 2015 — Years in Review

Cash away the old year passes as Cupertino has to be a happy place given the wild success of the iPhone 6. Only now are wait times reverting to normal after the most successful product launch in tech history. Apple is once again in ascendancy, Samsung and other rivals descending. The question is, what does iTim do to keep the momentum going, or will 2015 be a relative disappointment by comparison? Try iPhone 6s and 7, refreshes of Apple TV…

3rd Anniversary of Steve Jobs’ Passing

On this, the third anniversary of Steve Jobs passing, we take a look back at the man we knew or thought we knew.  Many of us had passing experiences with the one person who changed so much about the way we do business and run our personal lives.   Where would the world be without the iPhone or the iPad or the iPod.  These three items made our daily lives different in the way we enjoyed our music, our movies and…

Steve Jobs’ House Designated as Historic Landmark

The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that what everyone feared has come to pass; Steve Jobs’ home is now a historic landmark.  Designation was passed by the Los Altos Historical Commission due to the homes association with Steve Jobs.  Apparently it was a unanimous vote when the home came up for designation. Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/my-town/ci_24407428/jobs-house-cleared-apos-historic-resource

iSteve to take comedic look at Steve Jobs life

While many folks have been clamouring to see the new iJobs movie starring Ashton Kutcher, people now have something to actually cheer for.  April 15th, the comedy website Funny or Die will release their own biopic of Steve Jobs life.   Where iJobs was much more serious and is now expected to be pushed back to later this year for actual release, the iSteve movie  will be released April 15th.  The movie stars John Long of the PC vs Mac commercials…

Scott Forstall out as Software Chief at Apple, Inc.

Tim Cook has brought out the hatchet in the aftermath of the failed launch of Apple’s Maps on iOS.   Software Chief Scott Forstall, who was seen by many as the next CEO of Apple is the first of those to go.   With the debacle with the iOS 6.0 release with Apple’s maps, many customer were absolutely adamant that Scott be fired, yet Tim Cook seemed reluctant to take action.   That is no longer the case and Scott will only serve…

Apple Introduces new iPad

Tim Cook took the stage today in San Francisco and quickly worked through a number of stats, finally introducing Japanese Siri and then the new upgraded Apple TV.  However, that was not the highlight.  The iPad 3 came up on the screen, sleeker, and smoother, with Retina Display and Quad Core Graphics with the Apple 5X CPU.   The machine comes with a 5 megapixel camera and has 1080P Video Recording.   It has standard voice dictation and is  4G LTE next…

Tim Cook to Speak at Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference

Apple Inc. (AAPL) CEO, Tim Cook will speak at the Goldman Sach’s (GS) Technology and Internet Conference tomorrow at 12:30 PM Pacific Time.  The Apple Investor Relations page has a direct link for the audio portion of the speech.  Tim will be among a host of CEO’s and IT industry companies speaking at the conference about the future and direction of their companies. Many people are expecting he will be announcing the upcoming Apple iPad 3 event but his focus…