It all sounds eerily familiar. A new iPhone. Massive sales. Then, an apparent glitch that, while it doesn’t affect everyone, is prevalent enough to irk customers and catch the eyes of tech journalists everywhere. Poor battery life on the iPhone 4S, released on October 14 to great fanfare and record sales, has been the new [...]
He mapped out a strategy to rescue the failing merger on a whiteboard in 2003. After a long meeting with Steve Jobs last year about what the iPad would mean for publishers, Fortune‘s technology editor Stephanie Mehta — known to her colleagues as “Stephanie Telephony” when she covered telecommunications — remarked that Jobs was a surprisingly astute [...]
Just a few doors down from the Apple store in Sydney, where a long line of fans eagerly awaited the sale of the new iPhone 4S, another throng was gathering at a Samsung store. Samsung was ambushing Apple at a temporary “pop up” store offering its new Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone for just A$2 [...]
Gilbert Wong, the mayor of Cupertino, California, calls his city council to order. “As you know, Cupertino is very famous for Apple Computer, and we’re very honored to have Mr. Steve Jobs come here tonight to give a special presentation,” the mayor says. “Mr. Jobs?” And there he is, in his black turtleneck and jeans, shuffling [...]
The fabled iPhone 5 — or whatever Apple ends up calling its follow-up to the iPhone 4S — may be Steve Jobs’ last hurrah, according to Rodman & Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar. As CNet reports, Kumar wrote in a research note last week that the next iPhone “was the last project that Steve Jobs was intimately [...]
Thousands of people camped out at electronics stores Friday morning as the newest iPhone went on sale in Canada and a half-dozen other countries. Apple Stores and retailers Future Shop and Best Buy were opening two hours early across the country to kick off sales of the new model, the iPhone 4S. Thousands were waiting [...]
Apple rivals Google and Samsung said Friday that they have canceled the launch of a new smartphone next week to honor the death of Steve Jobs. The press announcement for the Android phone was set for Tuesday at a wireless industry trade show in San Diego, but representatives from Google and Samsung decided Thursday night, [...]
A Hong Kong design student’s poignant tribute to Apple founder Steve Jobs became an internet hit on Thursday with its minimalist, touching symbolism and brought a job offer and a flood of commemorative merchandise using his design. Nineteen-year-old Jonathan Mak, a student at Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University School of Design, came up with the idea [...]
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who revolutionized technology through his design, marketing and creation of personal computers and mobile devices, has died at 56, the company announced Wednesday. The man who forged Apple into a powerhouse and shaped how people listen to music and how they use computers died peacefully surrounded by his family. “We are [...]
There’s an odd sense of deflation across much of the tech world in the wake of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s first product launch Tuesday. It is a feeling akin to your favorite team making a pretty dull night out of what was supposed to be a major game, as if the crowd simply didn’t exist. Even those of us [...]
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