When Steve Jobs announced the Gyroscope, it was all fun and games. Demonstrating a version of Jenga, he gleefully danced about trying to keep his tower from toppling. Now you too can (sorta) join in on the fun with the official Jenga for iPhone.
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You Can’t Dance Like Steve Jobs With Jenga for iPhone
Jobs: Rockstar and CEO Of The Decade→
Jobs: Rockstar and CEO Of The Decade
Jobs’s legacy stretches back several decades and includes the development of a few more groundbreaking innovations from his first go-round at Apple in the 1970s and ’80s: the Apple II, the Mac and elaborate computer graphics, to name a few. Along with being likened to Edison and Bell, comparisons with such captains of industry as Walt Disney — of whose namesake company Jobs would later become the biggest individual shareholder — spring to mind for many.
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards.”
Steve Jobs: MobileMe Will Get “A Lot Better” Next Year
Surprised? MacRumors is reporting of a new email from Steve Jobs to one of their readers who, annoyed by MobileMe performance issues such as duplicate entries or unreliable syncing, emailed him to ask if Apple was working on it, to make it better. Jobs, as usual, replied with a very concise email saying that, yes, MobileMe will indeed get a lot better in 2011.
Q: I love my iPad and iPhone4 and am a huge fan of yours and all that Apple does. I desperately want to stay inside of Apple’e ecosystem as much as possible.
However, MobileMe is making it very difficult for me to do so. Unreliable/unpredictable syncing, creating duplicate entries (sometimes scores of them), etc. It’s almost unusable.
And I know from forums (including Apple’s own support boards) that I am not the only one experiencing these very real and frustrating problems.
Please tell me it will get better, and soon?
Jobs: Yes, it will get a lot better in 2011.
Sent from my iPhone
Of course it will get better. Apple is always working on making its product line better year after year and, even if some issues of MobileMe weren’t addressed during 2010, don’t forget Apple made Find My iPhone free, introduced note and iBooks bookmarks syncing, revamped the web UI of MobileMe. Changes were made in 2010, so perhaps 2011 will bring several performance improvements – we’re talking about speed, sync, support for multiple clients. And maybe some new features, too.
Also, don’t forget the data center Apple has been busy building in North Carolina. Because we’re pretty sure that will be behind MobileMe getting a lot better next year.
Creepy Guy Destroys iPad, Delivers It To Steve Jobs [Video]
I don’t know what’s going on with mysterious website SayHiToSpace.com. Sure, there’s a countdown in there and even links to email and Twitter, but it’s their Youtube channel that creeps me out. Basically, the first video from SayHiToSpace went viral as it featured a creepy guy finding out that the iPad lacked a camera, then destroying it making a hole in the middle of the device with a water jet.
Here’s the first video:
Steve Jobs, Romantic→
Steve Jobs, Romantic
Remember the original Apple-1 that was up for auction at Christie’s in London? An Italian businessman bought it for more than $200,000, and together with the actual computer he also got an old letter from Steve Jobs and a paper with the first Apple Logo.
The Economist snapped some pictures of both the papers.
In fact, the first Apple logo is the work of Ronald Wayne, who some refer to as Apple’s third co-founder (besides Mr Jobs and Steve Wozniak). It depicts Isaac Newton sitting under a tree with an apple about to fall on his head. The inscription on the logo’s border is a quote from William Wordsworth, a romantic English poet: “Newton… a mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought… alone.” Could it be that Mr Jobs himself is a hidden romantic?
Mac App Store To Launch Next Week?
According to a rumor posted by Appletell, Apple may launch the Mac App Store as early as next week:
An inside source has just told us that Apple is targeting a Monday, December 13th launch of the Mac App Store. The company apparently told developers to have their software prepared for a launch as early as Monday the 6th of this month, but our contact would be shocked if that happened at this point. Apple has made no official announcements regarding this, and delays could always happen, but there’s a push to be launched before Christmas, well ahead of the previously estimated January release. Guess from where this push has come.
The website claims that Apple is ahead of its schedule for the new store opening, and Steve Jobs wanted a December 6th launch, but it didn’t happen. We didn’t hear anything from developers about a December 6th release, we just know that there’s a deadline for apps to be submitted that should end sometimes later this month.
At the Back to the Mac event on October 20th, Steve Jobs said the Mac App Store would launch in 90 days – which made us think of a late January 2011 opening. Last week, Apple seeded a new build of OS X 10.6.6 to developers to ensure Mac App Store compatibility and even clarified its position on the availability of trials and beta apps in the new Store.
[via MacRumors]
Norman Foster To Design Apple’s New Campus In Cupertino?
According to El Economista, British architect Norman Foster will be the head of operations to design Apple’s new campus in Cupertino. Sources familiar to the matter told El Economista that the new campus – which happens to be HP’s old campus, recently bought by Apple – is one of the company’s most important projects, and will be “revolutionary” in a way that will be built on top of modern “green technologies” and renewable energy resources. Read more
Steve Jobs Confirms AirPlay Video Streaming For 3rd Party Apps Coming in 2011
Finally, our questions have been answered by Steve Jobs himself. We love AirPlay, but we can’t stand the fact that the current version that ships with iOS 4.2 comes with many limitations, especially when it’s about video streaming to the Apple TV.
You can’t stream video through AirPlay from Safari or any 3rd party app. This lead me to think that the AirPlay we’re playing around with now is just a teaser of better things to come in the future.
Now, a Steve Jobs email posted by MacRumors confirms that Apple is planning to add the feature in 2011:
Hi, I recently updated both my iPhone 4 and iPad to 4.2. I think my favourite feature is airplay. This is seriously amazing and makes sharing content seamless. I just purchased Apple TV and was wondering are you ever going to make airplay video work for videos in safari and 3rd party apps? I hope to get a response.
SJ: Yep, hope to add these features to Airplay in 2011.
A number of hacks and tweaks to enable AirPlay for video have surfaced recently, including packages jailbreak users can download from Cydia and install on their devices. We also detailed that it’s possible to turn any iOS device into an AirPlay speaker.
Here’s to hoping 2011 will bring the AirPlay we’ve always wanted.
Found Footage: Steve Jobs Demoes The Daddy Of OS X
This one’s an awesome finding via Reddit: while many of you may have already seen the following video (it should come straight from 1991), for all those who haven’t – well, it’s about Steve Jobs demoing the father of OS X, the NeXT computer.
In the video you can see Jobs talking about many features that eventually made their way to OS X, such as Interface Builder or the Dock. It’s also interesting to notice how, almost 20 years ago, Jobs and the team at NeXT were focused on making an operating system suitable for business users.
Fast forward today, and we’re waiting for 10.7 Lion that should bring more consumer-friendly features such as the Launchpad or fullscreen apps.