10 Iconic Steve Jobs Moments (VIDEOS)

By Christina Warren, Mashable.com

The career of one of America’s most innovative businessmen has been more than just a string of moments, but these 10 peeks at Steve Jobs’s formidable presence will remind you of why his resignation is such a momentous event.

From his cocky early days launching Macintosh, to his triumphant return to the company, to his jeans-and-black-shirt days of the iPod, iPhone and iPad — he kept keynote attendees and employees alike on the edge of their seats until his last “one more thing.”

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CNET Apple Byte: Want a projector in your iPhone? Yes, Please.

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We'll show you all new iOS 5 Beta features, Apple patents show us exactly what they're thinking and Brian falls in love with the new MacBook Air.

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Apple now No. 1 smartphone vendor by volume

By Tarmo Virki, Reuters

Apple and Samsung Electronics ended struggling Nokia's 15-year reign at the top of the smartphone sales rankings in the second quarter, researchers said on Friday.

"Apple overtook Nokia and Samsung to become the world’s No. 1 smartphone vendor by volume for the first time in history," said Neil Mawston, analyst at Strategy Analytics.

Nokia has dominated the smartphone market ever since its 1996 launch of the Communicator model, but competition from its two nearest rivals and a slump in its own sales sent it straight from first to third place in the three months to June as growth in the sector starts to slow.

Apple sold a record 20.3 million iPhones in the quarter despite the fact that its iPhone 4 model is now more than a year old. Usually success of smartphone models does not last so long.

Apple unveiled its sales last week, but on Friday analysts also estimated Samsung sold 19 million smartphones in the quarter, well ahead of Nokia's 16.7 million as it was able to benefit from booming demand with smartphones using Google's Android software.

"Samsung's Galaxy portfolio has proven popular, especially the high-tier S2 Android model," said Mawston.

Strategy Analytics estimated smartphone market volume grew 76 percent from a year ago in the second quarter. ABI Research was somewhat more cautious estimating market grew 62 percent.

myTouch 4G vs iPhone 4 - Browser Speed Test

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iPhone threatens Android rule

iPhone threatens Android rule

By Athima Chansanchai

As the iPhone starts to proliferate on other carriers after being released from AT&T's exclusive hold, it threatens to encroach upon the once-comfy rule Android phones have enjoyed in the smartphone market.

One analyst, Needham & Co.'s Charlie Wolf, says that a recent decline of Android's market share in the U.S. — from 52.4 percent to 49.5 percent in first quarter of 2011 — signals the beginning of the end of the Google mobile operating system's unrivaled ascent to the top of the smartphone heap.

GigaOM's Ryan Kim quoted from Needham's note, which points to a possible surge in iPhone 5 sales once the new model arrives this fall on Verizon.

In a report released in May, the addition of the iPhone to the Verizon network accounted for a boost in sales for Apple (16.9 million iPhones sold to fanboys and girls in 90 countries, doubling its sales from the same time last year), but Android held onto the No.1 spot at 36 percent of the market share worldwide.

In just a few short years, we've seen Android — with its prolific installment on so many models over so many carriers — shoot by leaps and bounds over other systems, until finally it surpassed Symbian for the No.1 spot during the first quarter of 2011.

But faster than a medieval coup — the king is dead, long live the king — it looks like Apple's iOS may be poised to hoist iPhones over the palace walls with big gains in the first quarter of 2011 (29.5 percent, up from 17.2 percent in the previous quarter), and with the iOs bumping up from 19 percent to 28 percent (thanks to CNN Money's Philip Elmer-DeWitt for providing more snippets from Needham's note).

More reason to think that Apple may very well overtake Google: cheaper iPhones? That's what GigaOM's Kim writes, and that would make for some interesting jousts since Android phones have historically been more accessible to the more cost-conscious consumer.

Still sliding: Nokia and Research in Motion (which recently started issuing pink slips), which bolsters the reality that the smartphone wars are really between Apple and Google at this point.

Steve Jobs announces iCloud at WWDC in SF (LIVE event completed)

...and that's all folks! No new iPhone 5 (hehehe). Steve's outta here! Good show, Apple! Lots to think about!




Surprise! Apparently you will be able to sync your entire music collection (even those NOT purchased through iTunes) with iCloud! Hmmmmmmmmmm, now how will THIS work? and Steve just announces the price—only $24.99 for 20,000 songs! Oh oh, Amazon.com! Better rethink your pricing. Maybe Google will be able to match since they ALWAYS make everything FREE!




And now more details on iCloud for music. Steve says, "This is the first time we've seen this in the music industry -- no charge for multiple downloads to different devices." Any purchases made in iTunes can be transferred (at no extra charge) to any of your Apple devices via iCloud! I like it! Steve says, "We're making it free, and we're very excited about it. So that's iCloud. It stores your content and pushes it to all of your devices, and it's integrated with all your apps." Leave it to Apple to make ALL of this work seamlessly together all linked by iCloud...oh yeah, and totally FREE! Still want to know how all this streaming is gonna affect data plan pricing on smartphones.




Now he's going to demo how iCloud will work for Photo Stream. I can't wait...get to the music, get to the music (LOL). So pardon the pun, but PICTURE this—you take a picture once on the iPhone and it goes directly to the cloud and pushes it back down to ALL other devices (e.g., iPad, Mac, iPod). No more fiddling around transferring photos back and forth between devices. I like THIS one a LOT! Oh okay, it's stored 30 days in the cloud...now THAT might be an issue, but it's still a freebie. Picture taken with an iPhone INSTANTLY appears on the iPad, as well. Cool iCloud magic!




Steve is demoing how to share Keynote document between iPhone and iPad using iCloud. Steve says, "The piece that we weren't finished with was how do we move those documents around to multiple devices, and Documents in the Cloud solves that problem for us."




Oh MY! THIS must be the surprise SHOCKER! iClouds is gonna be FREE! Yup FREE! Wow, if you bought an app on your iPhone, simply click on the iCloud button on your iPad to wirelessly download and install that same app on THAT device. Mmmmmmmm, very cool!




Steve's idea? Let's demote the PC and Mac to simply just another device (not the hub of your information life) and let's push our important information up into "the cloud." Now, this is just ME thinking out loud, but how will all this wireless streaming affect me and my limited smartphone data plans? Streaming ain't free, ya know! LOL! Gonna need a @me.com account if you wanna share data across all Apple devices—guess that makes sense.




Steve Jobs discusses the evolution of the computer over the last 10 years bringing us to mobile devices today...get ready for iCloud!




Oh, now THIS is interesting...new messaging service between iOS users!!! Wow! and it's WiFi OR 3G compatible. And here comes Steve Jobs!




Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Apple is cutting the PC cable! No more activation using a computer. Just take the iPhone right out of the box, press a button, and it's activated. AND you can sync iTunes to your device wirelessly! Nice, Apple! Hehehe, oh my, Apple LOVES to take swipes at Microsoft and Google Android (funny!).




Smart! There's now a Camera button on the Lockscreen! About time! Hmmmmmmmmmm, and draggable addresses—wonder how I'd use that?




Safari "Reminders" is getting a LOT of attention. Let's see how THIS one works.




Safari "Reading List" lets you read online stories later.




There's also a Newsstand feature in iOS 5. Hmmmmmmmmmmm, interesting! and now Scott is discussing tighter integration of Twitter in the iOS 5 mobile operating system. Jeez Android, I may (just may) need to rethink my not buying an iPhone 4 (or even iPhone 5)!!! This sure is looking nice, all with the easy-to-use Apple signature. They are masters of the consumer-focused user interface! Now, they're going to demo Safari, something I'm not AS interested in since I'm a dedicated Firefox PC user (hehehe). But I do use Safari (have to) on the iPad. Let's listen anyway...




All notifications are housed in ONE Notification Center now.




Now, onto iOS 5 with Scott Forstall. Wow, 25 million iPads sold—I knew it was a LOT, but this is INCREDIBLE!!! and $2.5 BILLION paid to app developers so far...I'm sure THAT caught the attention of those at this Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone Center! LOL




...and a very cool Favorites bar at the top! Lion will only be available via the Mac App Store—no more buying discs. Are you listening Microsoft? hehehe AND it's only gonna cost $29.99 to upgrade—are you listening Microsoft???? It'll be available in July...




Next up, a new version of Mail for OS X Lion! Nice!




Now demoing "AirDrop" with its peer-to-peer sharing.




Gonna have to try this auto-save feature with my Dad—wondering if he might get confused by all the different versions of the same document (grin). Sounds useful, though.




Getting new software applications from lots of different retailers delivered right to your Mac—cool! Wow, I didn't know that the Mac App Store is now the No. 1 channel for buying PC software, even bigger than Best Buy! Not surprised, though! And NOW, the Mac App Store is built right into OS X Lion—damn, Apple is so smart! Everything is fully-connected! And, Lion comes with "auto-save!"




Pretty nifty demo of PhotoBooth. This like it could be a lot of fun to use, huH?




Now demoing OS X Lion in action!




Steve talking about OS X Lion, iOS 5, and something for "the cloud." Sounds like iCloud to me!




Steve Jobs, stage left! ;-)




Even the President doesn't get THIS kinda coverage! hehehe

Looks like it's getting kinda crowded at the Moscone Center in San Francisco in anticipation of Steve Jobs' keynote address to the Worldwide Developers Conference. Three minutes to showtime!

Steve Jobs to announce Apple iCloud at WWDC in SF

In this episode of NerdBoyTV, Ryan Yee talks about Steve Jobs highly anticipated announcement of the Apple iCloud streaming music service at the annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC)on 06/06/11 at the San Francisco Moscone Center.

Just what is music stored "in the clouds" anyway?

With Apple readying to announce its iCloud streaming music service on Monday, you may be wondering what all the excitement is about all this music being stored "in the clouds" anyway. Well, since Amazon.com came out of the gates first, they developed this quick and easy explanation of what Amazon Cloud Player and Cloud Drive can do for YOU!

iPhone 5G case photos show off edge-to-edge screen, new camera flash location

It’s okay if you can’t keep up with the crush of future iPhone rumors and speculation. There’s a lot to sort through. Just last Friday it was reported that the rumored September iPhone release — Apple has historically announced new phones in the early summer, but reports suggest that the yearly cycle is being shifted to the fall — won’t be the iPhone 5, but rather an upgraded version of the iPhone 4. The fifth generation iOS phone may or may not be arriving this fall, but previous reports that revealed it will sport an edge-to-edge screen have received additional support from a new source.

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Apple to beat Google on cloud music: source

Exclusive: Apple to beat Google on cloud music: sources - Yahoo! News: "Apple Inc has completed work on an online music storage service and is set to launch it ahead of Google Inc, whose own music efforts have stalled, according to several people familiar with both companies' plans.

Apple's plans will allow iTunes customers to store their songs on a remote server, and then access them from wherever they have an Internet connection, said two of these people who asked not to be named as the talks are still confidential.

The maker of the wildly popular iPhone and iPod, Apple has yet to sign any new licenses for the service and major music labels are hoping to secure deals before the service is launched, three of the sources said. Apple has not told its music partners of when it intends to introduce its music locker, they said.

An Apple spokesman declined to comment.

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SHOW #103 - NerdBoyTV: Tech News - April 16, 2011

In this episode of NerdBoyTV, Ryan Yee reviews the tech news of the week, including a discounted Wii, the end of the Flip Video, YouTube Copyright School, and the white iPhone coming soon.

SHOW #98 - NerdBoyTV: iPad 2, Twitter, Facebook

In this episode of NerdBoyTV, Ryan Yee discusses the new release of Apple's iPad 2, provides a word of warning about tweeting on Twitter, and gives a creative example of the new pictures feature running along the top of your Facebook wallposts.

Apple iPad 2 is a winner!

It's here! The new Apple iPad 2! Jeez, Apple is sooooooooooo smart: 1) Thinner, 2) Faster, 3) Front/Rear-Facing Cameras (FaceTime, anyone?), and 4) Same price points! Don't think that iPad Killer is coming anytime soon! Just imaging, nothing less and a whole lot more! Way to go, Apple!

Why nobody can match the iPad's price

By WIRED via CNN.com: "When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad last January, the biggest surprise wasn't the actual product. (Many shrugged and called the iPad a 'bigger iPhone.') It was the price: Just $500.

Nobody expected that number, perhaps because Apple has traditionally aimed at the high end of the mobile computer market with MacBooks marked $1,000 and up. And perhaps we were also thrown off because Apple execs repeatedly told investors they couldn't produce a $500 computer that wasn't a piece of junk.

But Apple did meet that price, and the iPad isn't junk. The iPad is still the first, and best-selling, product of its kind. Competitors, meanwhile, are having trouble hitting that $500 sweet spot.

Motorola's Xoom tablet is debuting in the United States with an $800 price tag. (To be fair, the most comparable iPad is $730 -- but there's no $500 Xoom planned, and the lack of a low-end entry point will hurt Motorola.) Samsung's Galaxy Tab, with a relatively puny 7-inch screen, costs $600 without a contract.

Why is it so hard to get to a lower starting price? And how was Apple able to get there?

Jason Hiner of Tech Republic suggests it largely has to do with Apple's retail strategy. Apple now has 300 retail stores worldwide selling iPads directly to customers. That's advantageous, because if the iPad were primarily sold at third-party retail stores, a big chunk of profit would go to those retailers, Hiner reasons.

Apple has partnered with a few retail chains such as Best Buy and Walmart, but those stores always seem to get a small number of units in stock. Hiner rationalizes that the true purpose of these partnerships is probably to help spread the marketing message, not so much to sell iPads.

'The company can swallow the bitter pill of hardly making any money from iPad sales through its retail partners because it can feast off the fat profits it makes when customers buy directly through its retail outlets and the web store,' Hiner says. 'However, companies like Motorola, HP, and Samsung have to make all of their profit by selling their tablets wholesale to retailer partners.'

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Apple Buys Up Touchscreens, Limiting Supply for Rivals

By Yahoo! News: "To keep up with soaring sales of Apple's hit iPad tablet, competitors will have to do more than just design and market a good rival. A report Friday said they may face problems building them.

It's no secret that Apple, which sold more than 14 million iPads last year and could see sales of more than 45 million in 2011, hedges its bets by ordering components it needs in massive quantities, ahead of demand.

Now Taiwan-based DigiTimes, citing sources from both component and computer manufacturers, says Apple has a grip on 60 percent of this year's expected output of capacitive touchscreens used in tablets. Unless capacity increases, that could put a strain on other companies' goals for the year.

'Touch panels are currently suffering the most serious shortage due to Apple holding control over the capacity of major touch-panel makers such as Wintek and TPK, and with U.S.-based RIM, Motorola and Hewlett-Packard also competing for related components, second-tier players are already out of the game,' sources told the industry journal. (Research In Motion, maker of BlackBerry devices, is actually based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.)

News of Apple buying up LCD and OLED touchscreens preceded the release of the iPad at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show, fueling rumors about the forthcoming tablet. Insiders say Apple could have sold even more iPads last year if it could have had more touchscreens and won't allow that to happen this year as it gets ready to release the second generation of the device.

Touchscreen shortages also reportedly affected the supply of iPhones when the fourth-generation model was released last June.

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Obama has dinner with the WHOLE Internet!

Let's see, we have Obama sitting with Steve Jobs to his left and Mark Zuckerberg to his right (that's about $100 billion right THERE). Also apparently in the house, Google exec Eric Schmidt, Yahoo!'s Carol Bartz, Oracle's Larry Ellison, and Twitter's Dick Costolo. This is like a "nerd's" dream come true, huh? LOL

iPad 2 expected to ship in April

Technolog - iPad 2 expected to ship in April: "Two days ago, our own Wilson Rothman gave you a rundown of what we know about the Apple iPad 2 —including details about the dual cameras, the body and SD card slot — and now we've got another tidbit to add to the pile: mass shipments of the highly anticipated device are scheduled in April.

The latest churn comes via Digitimes, which has passed on progress reports from its sources that claim Apple has increased the number of printed circuit board (PCB) suppliers for the iPad 2 to seven, from three. According to those sources, these manufacturers (Compeq Manufacturing, Gold Circuit Electronics (GCE), Meiko and Nan Ya PCB) of high-density interconnect (HDI) boards, which reduce the size and weight of the PCB, 'will begin shipments of any-layer HDI boards in small volumes between the end of February and early March prior to mass shipments in April.'

As Meiko explains it, the any-layer HDI technology 'yields finer circuit patterns, (B2it technology), producing boards that are even thinner and have other advanced techniques.'

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Verizon to carry iPhone

Verizon to carry iPhone: source - Yahoo! News: "Verizon Wireless will sell the iPhone, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter.

There was no specific date for when Verizon would sell the phone in its stores, the paper reported on its website. The announcement will be made on Tuesday at an event in New York, WSJ said.

Verizon declined to comment. An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment.

Shares of Verizon rose 2.5 percent in after-hours trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Apple shares rose 0.6 percent in after-hours trading on the Nasdaq.

Verizon, Wireless, a joint venture between Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc, delivered cryptic nontransferable invitations on Friday to an event to Tuesday's New York event.

The in-box invite to journalists was skimpy on details: 'Join us as we share the latest news from Verizon Wireless.'

AT&T Inc is currently the exclusive carrier of the iPhone.

On January 6, AT&T announced it will cut the price of its older iPhone model, the 3GS, to $49 from $99.

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Apple launches app store for Macs, a la iPhone

Apple launches app store for Macs, a la iPhone - Technology & science - Wireless - msnbc.com: "Apple Inc is launching an applications store for Mac computers, replicating a model that proved wildly popular on its iPhones.
Apple is hoping to capitalize on Macs' surging sales as it aims to change the way software is sold for its computers — centralizing distribution, simplifying discovery and leaving Apple as a gatekeeper of sorts.

The Mac App Store, similar to the iPhone App Store and linked to iTunes accounts, went live on Thursday offering more than 1,000 apps, or programs. The store is launching in 90 countries with paid and free apps in areas such as games, design and education.

Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, highlighted the ease of use of the store, which he said will be familiar to anyone who has bought iPhone apps."

Gadget show to bring fiercer competition to iPad

Gadget show to bring fiercer competition to iPad - Yahoo! News: "Apple Inc.'s popular iPad is getting its strongest competition thus far as consumer-electronics manufacturers unveil tablet computers with bigger screens, front-facing cameras for video chatting and more.

The iPad has been a smashing success since its April launch, leaving other companies to play catch-up in the suddenly hot market for the keyboardless, touch-screen devices. Rivals are making a bigger push at this week's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, betting they can challenge Apple with such features as Android, the popular smart phone software Google Inc. developed to compete with the iPhone; high-definition touch screens and cameras for video chatting and taking photos.

The competition is going to be fierce. DisplaySearch analyst Richard Semenza estimated that a hundred different tablet models are in development, though not all of them will reach store shelves."