Steve Jobs would have been 66 today, Wednesday, February 24th, 2021. Born in 1955, Steve Jobs passed away at the age of 56 after a long battle with Pancreatic Cancer. The co-founder of Apple, Inc. and the primary reason for the company’s resurgence in the late 1990’s and 2000’s was known for his dedicated to […]
This morning, I saw a post from Tim Cook which caused me to take pause of what I was doing and reminisce a bit. 35 years ago, I was a young computer lab technician working in the college computer lab, supporting 100 Apple II systems on a Corvus Network. We began receiving new computers in […]
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, spoke at the Utah Tech Tour yesterday with other industry leaders. Members of the audience had the rare chance to submit questions to Tim. As always, Tim is very thoughtful, articulate and clearly brilliant. I feel lucky to have been there and heard his insights into encryption, being a successful […]
Apple has announced that Swift is now Open Source as had been promised by Tim Cook. According to the posting on the swift blog (https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/ ), Apple has set up a new GITHUB account specifically for Swift source code. The features of this new open source movement includes: A bug reporting and tracking system Mailing […]
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 […]
Apple has announced an initiative to make their latest data centers in Denmark and Ireland completely 100% energy self-reliant. The two plants will come to a total cost of 1.7 Billion Euros and will go into operation by 2017. According to the press release ” CORK, Ireland—February 23, 2015—Apple® today announced a €1.7 billion plan […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook has announced that the National Parks system will soon be another Apple Pay customer. If you have ever entered a national park that is popular like Yellowstone or Mt. Rainier National parks, the lines entering the parks can sometimes be overwhelming. This will soon be alleviated by the Apple Pay enabled […]
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 […]
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 […]
Apple has announced an event on September 9th at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts in Cupertino, Ca. The event which has been long expected by those following the iPhone 6. The schedule currently has the event beginning at 10am PST. Also expected to be introduced are a number of other related products including […]
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 […]
Tim Cook, in an invitation only event in Sanfrancisco, introduced the iPhone 5 this morning. The event which was held at the Beuna Yerba Center had a bevy of new announcements in regard to the iPhone / iPod series including the iPod Touch, iPod Nano and the iPhone 5. Apple has posted the event in […]
The Apple Store, which is the center of the Apple consumer universe has been shut down in preparation for the pending announcements coming in today’s keynote at WWDC. The World Wide Developers Conference, held each year at Muscone Center in San Francisco, is the place to be today as Apple shows their developers the future […]
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 […]
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 […]
Yesterday, Tim Cook held a town hall meeting with employees of Apple Inc. While there were several items discussed, perhaps the biggest surprise was the new employee discounts that Apple employees will get. Each employee will get $500 off Mac Purchases and $250 off iPad purchases, once every three years. The discounts will begin in […]
Apple had a slam dunk, in your face type of quarter in quarter 1, 2012. It’s profits were beyond that of any belief. The stock price jumped to over 455 USD a share at one point after profits were announced. The number of iPhone 4S’s sold were more than 4 million units beyond that of […]
On January 19th, 2012, Apple Inc. is scheduled to have an education related announcement in the heart of New York City. While many in the world are speculating that apple is trying to “destroy the textbook industry”, We suspect that they are just following up on several lines of thought. First, Texas was the first […]
It took a letter from a US Senator to get Apple to take down an App which allows users to create a high quality fake Drivers License. According to a story about the App in the LA Time, “Senator Bob Casey (D-Penn.) sent a letter to Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook requesting that the tech […]
With less than 10 hours to go until the iPhone5 announcement, it is funny to read the hubub on many of the main steam media sites. It seems that many in the main stream, including the Wall Street Journal want the iPhone 5 announcement to be a failure. Videos like “Is the iPhone loosing its […]