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3:21 am, November 5th, 2009, Lonnie Lazar
Isamu Sanada’s day gig is photography, but his passion is Apple mock-up design.
An amateur designer of fantasy Macintoshes with a website that showcases dozens of his speculative designs for Apple gear, Sanada got his mock-up cred back when he posted an amazingly prescient take on the Titanium G4 PowerBook months before the real deal was released.
Though he’s gotten lots of praise for his designs, Sanada has been quoted regarding his design chops humbly, saying, “Apple’s thought is more splendid than my thought.”
Hit the jump for more Steve Jobs lookalikes and if you find one out and about — or happen to be one yourself — send us a pic or post it on our Facebook wall and we may feature yours in a gallery post down the road.
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1:44 am, November 5th, 2009, Leander Kahney
Is this Steve Jobs driving a tank in a classic Apple TV spot from the late 1990s? That was the rumor at the time: Jobs was making cameos in Apple commercials.
Ken Segall, the TBWA ad man responsible for naming the iMac and Think Different, reveals the truth after the jump. He also shares some rare behind-the-scenes photos he took during the filming of this commercial and another from the same era.
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11:13 pm, November 3rd, 2009, Leander Kahney
Meet Ken Segall — the man who dreamed up the name “iMac” and wrote the famous Think Different campaign.
Segall is a veteran creative director who worked at Apple’s agency, TBWA\Chiat\Day, back in the day.
“I’ve put in 14 years working with Steve Jobs on both Apple and NeXT,” says Segall. “I’m the author of the Think Different campaign and the guy who came up with the whole “i” thing, starting with iMac.”
Segall collaborated closely with advertising legend Lee Clow, chief creative officer of TBWA\Chiat\Day, whose retirement was widely — but prematurely — reported last week.
In this exclusive interview, Segall talks about working with Steve Jobs, how Jobs initially hated the word “iMac,” and the importance of the Think Different campaign to Apple.
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Posted by Leander Kahney in Apple, News, Steve Jobs, Top stories, iMac | 42 Comments »
11:59 pm, October 28th, 2009, Leander Kahney
Print and cut-out your own scary Steve Jobs Halloween mask, courtesy of Dan Draper. http://www.flickr.com/photos/macobyte/2302719050/
Forget Balloon Boy and Billy Mays this Halloween. Dress up as your favorite demonic CEO instead.
You’ll scare the pants off work colleagues when you walk in the elevator, and the neighboorhood kids will be in a bag of hurt when you give them apple slices instead of sickly sweet candy.
Hit the jump for a full-size mask that you can print and cut out.
Thanks Dan Draper for the fantastic image of Steve Jobs and Forbes for the idea.
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Posted by Leander Kahney in Apple, Steve Jobs, Top stories | 2 Comments »
5:59 am, October 28th, 2009, Lonnie Lazar
The singer Beyonce Knowles -- one of the biggest celebrities in the world -- uses her MacBook at the pool.
When you’re among the top achievers in your given field of endeavor it only stands to reason you probably choose the best tools available to do whatever it is you do, both professionally and personally.
Our survey of some of the best of the best across a wide range of endeavors shows lots of those at the top of their games choose Apple gear when it comes to computing and entertainment and we offer here a gallery of 10 top machers from the fields of media, sports, entertainment, politics and elsewhere who choose Apple products to enhance and enable their achievements.
There’s a reason the game is called Follow the Leader, isn’t it?
Via ObamaPacMan
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Posted by Lonnie Lazar in Apple, Cult of Mac, Macintosh, Steve Jobs, Top stories | 12 Comments »
4:07 pm, October 1st, 2009, Leander Kahney
Steve Jobs portrait by Joy of Tech: http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/
For someone’s who makes makes only $1 a year, Steve Jobs sure is rich.
Jobs has been ranked 43rd on Forbes annual list of the 400 richest Americans — his highest ranking yet.
Jobs has a net worth of $5.1 billion, Forbes says, thanks mostly to nearly $4 billion worth of stock in Disney. Jobs became the largest individual Disney stockholder after the company bought Pixar in 2006.
“Best investment: bought Pixar from George Lucas in 1986 for $10 million; created string of hits (Finding Nemo, Toy Story). Sold to Disney in 2006 for $7.4 billion in stock,” says Forbes. “Today is Disney’s largest shareholder; stake worth $3.9 billion.”
Last year, Jobs placed 61st on Forbes’ list, and despite a decline in net worth of about $600 million, he comes inside the top 50. The economic climate hasn’t been as kind to other billionaires, poor souls. His previous highest showing was 49th place in 2007.
Jobs climbed up the ladder thanks to a massive 90% rebound in Disney’s stock price, and a similar doubling of Apple’s. Just six months ago, in the middle of the slump, Jobs slipped to 178th place.
Jobs has drawn only a $1 annual salary from Apple since returning to the company, although he has received massive stock option grants and a private Gulfstream jet.
Microsoft’s Bill Gates remains at the top of the list for the 16th year in a row, despite a drop in worth of $7 billion. Gates still has $50 billion to his name.
Posted by Leander Kahney in Apple, News, Steve Jobs | 3 Comments »
3:51 pm, September 29th, 2009, Leander Kahney
Twenty five years after Apple aired its famous 1984 commercial, it’s Steve Jobs that is being portrayed as Big Brother.
In a remake of Apple’s famous 1984 ad, which famously portrayed IBM as a force of oppression, startup doubleTwist has Apple pegged as the oppressor.
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Posted by Leander Kahney in Advertising, Apple, News, Steve Jobs | 15 Comments »
10:22 am, September 29th, 2009, Leander Kahney
The Apple tablet is 10.7-inch device that runs the iPhone OS and is ready to go, subject to Steve Jobs’ final approval, iLounge reports.
Citing a rock solid source with a proven track record, iLounge says the “iPad” looks like a jumbo iPhone with a curved back and an approx. 720p touchscreen. The device will be announced on January 19 and ship in May or June — the delay is designed to build iPhone-like hype.
It will come in two configurations: One with built-in 3G networking and another without. “Think of the 3G version as a bigscreen iPhone 3GS, and the non-3G version as a bigscreen iPod touch,” iLounge says.
The device is not designed for a work or productivity. It’s for media consumption.
“It’s a slate-like replacement for books and magazines, plus all of the media, gaming, app, and web functionality of the iPhone and iPod touch,” iLounge says. “It is not meant to compete with netbooks. It’s an iPhone OS media player and light communication device.”
And Steve Jobs is 80 percent likely to give the green light for a January 19 launch.
Why January 19? That’s the big question.
Posted by Leander Kahney in Apple, News, Rumors, Steve Jobs, Tablet | 18 Comments »
11:59 pm, September 13th, 2009, Carmine Gallo
Steve Jobs made a welcome return to the public eye last week at a special music event to introduce Apple’s 2009 holiday iPods.
“The September music event was classic Apple. It marked the return of the world’s greatest corporate storyteller,” says communications coach, Carmine Gallo, author of The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience.
Gallo’s book will be published later this month by McGraw-Hill and can be pre-ordered now from Amazon. Gallo’s written some insightful analyses of Steve’s presentations in the past, so we asked him to take a look at last week’s event. After the jump, Gallo breaks down his top ten presentation tips from Jobs’ latest speech.
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Posted by Carmine Gallo in Apple, How-To, Opinions, Steve Jobs | 7 Comments »
11:55 pm, September 9th, 2009, Leander Kahney
Apple has posted some nice, high–res video of today’s “Rock & Roll” special press event. The video is available here and has been added to Apple’s Keynote podcast, although it isn’t yet linked from the iTunes front page.
It’s worth watching for four reasons:
* To see Steve’s heartfelt thanks to his liver donor, to Apple’s staff, and the Apple community, whose best wishes seems to have genuinely buoyed and touched him.
* The gaming demos. The iPhone/iPod touch platform is maturing into an important and fun game platform. The demos make this very clear. It isn’t for hard-core gamers, but the rest of us — the millions of casual gamers that only Nintendo seems to know how to engage.
* To see the preview of iTunes LP, and look for clues what the format might be like on a multitouch device (which I think is what project codename Cocktail is really about).
* To see Steve, who’s magnetic and charismatic and utterly watchable even when he’s very unwell. Who knows how many more times we’ll get to see him? These opportunities are getting rarer and rarer. Here’s hoping he makes an appearance at CES in Las Vegas in January to introduce the Apple tablet. And that he puts on 30lbs eating ice cream. I know it worked for me.
Posted by Leander Kahney in Apple, News, Steve Jobs | 4 Comments »
8:26 pm, September 9th, 2009, Leander Kahney
The third coming of Steve Jobs, by Jesus Diaz of Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/5355422/steve-jobs-is-back-in-the-game-reappears-in-ipod-event
Remember John Lennon’s famous quip that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus?
Well, now Steve Jobs is bigger than the Beatles, says music-industry pundit Bob Lefsetz.
“Steve Jobs’ appearance today is the biggest story in the world,” he wrote today.
“What kind of crazy, fucked-up world do we live in where the biggest rock star doesn’t even play an instrument? I don’t know if you were online at 10 A.M. (1 P.M. on the east coast), but a roar was heard on the Internet louder than any audience explosion ever noted on a dB meter. Steve Jobs hit the stage!”
Lefsetz has banged on about Jobs being a rock star before, but he is absolutely right.
Who’s heard a peep all day about the Beatles? It’s all been about Steve Jobs. And that’s because Apple has got someting new and fresh and honest, while the music industry is once again repackaging something old, something “that meant something once,” Lefsetz says.
Go read the whole thing.
Posted by Leander Kahney in Apple, Opinions, Steve Jobs | 1 Comment »
8:04 pm, September 9th, 2009, Leander Kahney
Why doesn’t the new iPod touch have a camera? And why can’t the nano take still pictures? Steve Jobs gave David Pogue of the New York Times some answers…
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Posted by Leander Kahney in Apple, Hardware, News, Steve Jobs, iPod, iPod Touch | 20 Comments »
2:34 pm, September 9th, 2009, Leander Kahney
Steve Jobs received a standing ovation at the beginning of today’s “Rock&Roll” special event. Watch the video after the jump and hear him thank the donor whose liver saved his life. It’s humble and touching.
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12:05 pm, September 9th, 2009, Leander Kahney
Steve Jobs has just taken the stage and is getting a long standing ovation. “I’m vertical, back at Apple, loving every day of it,” he said.
“I’m very happy to be here with you all. As some of you might know, I had a liver transplant,” he told reporters and Apple staffers gather at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
His voice is very soft.
He said he now has the liver of a 20 year old who died in a car crash, and he thanks him for his generosity, says Gizmodo.
“I’d like to thank everyone in the Apple community for the heartfelt support — it meant a lot. I’d also like to thank Tim Cook and the rest of the Apple team, they really rose to the occasion.”
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5:16 pm, September 4th, 2009, Leander Kahney
Twitter user livelovelight just posted this picture of Steve Jobs’ car in a handicapped spot at Apple’s campus. The snap was posted at 2.43 PST — about half an hour ago. Steve’s car is probably still there.
Forty minutes earlier, livelovelight tweated that he’d just missed Jobs: “At apple headquarters. Just missed steve jobs by 2 minutes,” he said.
Jobs is famous for parking in the handicapped spots (check out this hilarious gallery), but perhaps now he’s recovering from a liver transplant he has a genuine handicapped permit. I don’t see it hanging off the mirror though. He must have taken it with him.
And here he is talking to Jonny Ive. This picture was uploaded to Skitch about 33 minutes ago.
Posted by Leander Kahney in Apple, News, Steve Jobs | 26 Comments »
