Steve Jobs was a brilliant personality. He got almost all parameters right – Spirituality, Work and Family. He was a perfect man. You’ve got to go through his sister, Mona Simpson’s Eulogy for her brother Steve Jobs. Damn, finally he did get everything right.
Steve Jobs said, “I’ve finally cracked it”. When the word was out, there erupted a billion guesses about what he had found out. He was talking about something that all of us have grown up with. The TV.
When I first heard Apple’s releasing a product called Apple TV, I thought it’s a television screen that they’re selling. It was an obvious guess. Later on, I learnt, it’s type of a device which controls the content on your Television and connects it to the internet, iTunes, Netflix and other services. It sought to revise the TV concept. Then the Remote app to control Apple TV from any of the iDevices reckoned the existing remotes useless. But now, Apple is turning back to my conjecture. They are eyeing Television.
If you clearly observe, Apple has constantly been trying to narrow it down. Either by bringing iTunes to your TV or remote to your iPhone or App Stores to Macs. This is all part of their long term strategy and vision. To put it across, at one time everything is just going to converge into one centralized system. iCloud was made for this. To stitch all the devices together into a simple system. In this, I see Job’s vision and his Zen philosophy,which stresses on focus and simplicity.
The problem with innovation in the television industry is the go-to-market strategy. The television industry fundamentally has a subsidized business model that gives everybody a set-top box for free or for $10 a month. And that pretty much squashes any opportunity for innovation because nobody’s willing to buy a set-top box. Ask Tivo. Ask ReplayTV. You know, ask Roku. Ask Voodoo. Ask us. Ask Google in a few months. Sony’s tried as well. Panasonic’s tried. A lot of people have tried. They’ve all failed. – Steve Jobs at the D8 Conference.
Apple is eyeing the Television Market and definitely urges to redefine and change this market. Surprisingly, this industry has not undergone much change since its inception. They’ve grown thinner and SMART TV’s began by changing the interface. Every product from Apple focuses heavily on User Interface. This is it. An opportunity to re-invent another industry.
What analysts think is that since Apple came up with the Siri on the iPhone, the voice controlled assistant they think it makes a lot of sense to them to bring it to TV. It wants to kill the concept of a buttoned remote. It could bring a revolution in TV industry like what happened in Music when iTunes came out. If you command Siri to play a movie according to your mood, using its own Artificial Intelligence maybe it can. You let your assistant pick up stuff you’d like and your in command.
It’s not a new idea, something like this is already in the market. Can you guess what it is? Damn. It’s Microsoft’s Kinect for Xbox. Basic TV controls are present but something like Siri (assuming an adaptive version of the iPhone Siri for TV) is far away from Kinect’s imagination.
But I don’t get it and I don’t think this is what “Jobs Finally Cracked it”. Apple could have something like this ready in few months. They could work on Siri, connect the iPhone to the Apple TV and then all the commands would be processed on the iPhone and sent to Apple TV.
There is something more to it. A new method of media consumption and a brilliant user interface. Something that we haven’t imagined as of yet. Yeah, I’m excited.
The title represents one of those frantic buddhist quotes that Steve Jobs believed in.
I had this strange feeling that Jobs was going to pass when he resigned from Apple. It was obvious, why would a man leave his dream job? Especially a man like Steve who always followed his heart?
This morning I woke up to find that the greatest idol of my childhood (and for many more years to come) is no more. I couldn’t help myself from getting too emotional.
Relation I (and many more like me) shared with Steve JobsI don’t know Jobs and not had one conversation with him. I’m not even sure if he has ever read my name. There are millions like me whom he has helped and changed while not knowing us. But we knew him. He was the great visionary who had the guts to always follow his intuition and make the Apple of his dreams. We’re connected to him through all his inventions, we’re listening to Music, Playing games, Surfing the Internet, Watching Television Shows. We’re all surrounded by Steve’s creation.
For me, one of things why Technology always enticed me was Apple. They always challenged their past to make something better. The perfectionist Jobs lead to the perfectness of the products.
Steve Jobs had 4 children and wife, Laurene Powell Jobs. Three Daughters (One of which is adopted) and a son. They will be good and FYI Laurene is also a good-to-do entrepreneur.
Ofcourse not. Nothing can fill the gap of a brilliant personality like Steve’s. The Optimistic attitude. The Aura. Nothing can replace it. Apple will never be like Jobs’ Apple.
Obviously not. His ideas changed the way we interact with Digital Media and probably shook the hell out of mobile companies. He raised the standards and ethics of business. He made the tech scenario beautiful and perfect.
I shared something more than just what most people do. He’s served as an inspiration for me. His presentation skills have awed me, time to time.
I started blogging and first few posts were dedicated to Apple, a company who we knew to make MP3 Players. Today, six and a half years later under the direction of Jobs, they shaped the Digital World. I’ve covered almost all product unveilings from 2005 and liveblogged many. His controversial statements, sudden replies to emails and random acts have left a mark on my mind. I can never forget him. He’s left a legacy and inspired millions of children like me to get up and follow our hearts.
How can I miss his speech? I’ve seen it 100′s of times and I request you to see it too. After 15 minutes you will know why.
Steve Jobs resignation came as a shock to many but to the man, it was exactly how it was supposed to be. Every day when I come across news cooked up in Cupertino, it reminds me of a classic tale in the making. Every decision Jobs takes is rapidly leading him to preparation of a legacy to leave behind.
Its his sheer luck, a planned adventure or whatever. I don’t know. One thing that I’m sure about is his daring and dauntless character. Steve Jobs was my idol. I’ve seen his Stanford Commencement Speech more than a hundred times, not once did I not sense the energy that I felt the first time. I’ve read many books about him. iCon, his unauthorized biography tells me a lot about him and his perseverance. He was a perfect entrepreneur. I’ve spent infinitely many hours studying Apple’s market tactics, ideas and their execution. Through all of it, flows the vision of this man.
Being a tech blogger, I knew that if any news has something to do with Jobs, it’s definitely worth a chase. And it always turned out to be. Steve amazed us and gifted us those breathtaking moments when he unveiled the most revolutionary concepts before anyone else. Ah, I’m feeling nostalgic.
What happens next at Apple under Tim Cooks leadership? I don’t know. But Apple is Definitely not going to be what it was without Jobs. I surely won’t feel the excitement. Thank You Steve Jobs for filling our jobs with emotions. Thank You.
Sometimes, I feel sad because Steve Jobs takes all the limelight. Not just once, ever since. Always. Steve Wozniak, the infamous co-founder of Apple willingly takes the backseat.
Years after his leave at Apple, at a keynote on Storage Networking World in Santa Clara, California he was questioned as how tablets could change the computer industry. I expected some sort of answer and he fulfilled my wish. He compared them to TV’s.
Moreover he called them, “It’s for the normal people in the world”.
I think Steve Jobs had that intention from the day we started Apple, but it was just hard to get there, because we had to go through a lot of steps where you connected to things, and (eventually) computers grew up to where they could do … normal consumer appliance things
He even expressed his desire that Android tablets shall never surpass iPads. Why? Ofcourse, somehow the technology that powers iPad is the highly evolved version of the technology that Steve Wozniak had designed in 1980.
The question that bugs most of people who follow Apple is that, Why did Wozniak ever leave Apple? Steve Jobs and Wozniak had different vision for the company. Wozniak was inclined towards the engineering side while Jobs was interested in running a business and a company. [Source]
In near recentness, there were some rumors surfacing regarding the possibility of huge changes to Mac OS (which I think are surely going to happen) and there was one specific rumor which caught the attention of potential developers and readers. It was the coming of a App Store for Apple’s Mac OS.
The rumor was that Macintosh would get a App Store bearing resemblance to the current App Store for the iPhone. This did shake a lot of developers because this would block developer’s freedom and all applications would have to be approved by Apple first inorder to start working on the Mac.
For developers, the rumors’s aren’t true. Guess who said it? Steve Jobs himself while replying to a mail. Lame question you think? Why would steve even bother to answer? Well, that’s pretty counterfactual. It indeed was a extremely important because it is a direct hit upon the future of Mac OS and if the rumors weren’t spilled away then it could damage the intentions of developers to keep working on Mac Apps.
[Via MacStories]
Gizmodo, reported pictures of two of the most prominent people from worlds largest tech arsenals, Steve Jobs and Eric Schimdt seated together at Calafia in the Town and Country shopping center in Palo Alto. The Cafe where they were spotted is owned by ex-Google chef Charlie Ayers.
Two lines overheard by the photographer,
They’re going to see it all eventually so who cares how they get it
He alsoclaimed that these talks revolved around web content. This could possibly have some relation with the recent news of Apple’s route into the Mobile Advertising Business, but then both come from companies [Steve - Apple CEO and Eric - Google CEO] who’s relations have been deteriorating abominably so what could be the core matter of the talk?
Folks at Gizmodo did a complete analysis of their body posture (wow, you seriously need that?) and it finally lands onto the fact that, Eric Schimdt is scared of Steve Jobs!
Everyone’s frowning over Apple’s decision to not add camera, multitasking etc.. to the iPad. But you know there’s one man somewhere smiling, in the dark and the reason is because everything is going just as he wished.
It’s not a joke that humans more than the capabilities look over disabilities first but finally, whatever it is they have to accept it and if you ask me, then Apple has added a lot of features to the iPad and it has focused a lot on not what is currently existing but what is going to be there with you, in your hands in the future and you will desire for it.
If we fly back to 2001, when iPod was first released people said that it was called a big fat storage device for “fat” people to store their huge libraries. The first review from Slashgear also highlighted all the negative points about the iPod which convinced people quite well. Lastly, ask me who won? Selling over 240,000,000 pieces from 2001 till last month, Apple clearly did and they know quite well that they will.
If we see Apple’s iPad is the perfect for everything it does. iPad’s large screen size made it to be called as an oversized iPod by everyone, including me, said that but well it did take me sometime to realize it’s potential. a 9.7 inch is capable of doing things which you did earlier on other devices too, but there is something impressive and un-noticed about it unless you actually start using it. I have often desired the iPod and iPhone screens to be larger while i was watching videos and something less heavy and more portable than my laptop and television. Here’s where the iPad steps in. Guess what else? It does nearly most of what all the devices do, sort of.
iPhone and iPod touch OS being used on iPad was lamented all over by all experts as people wanted innovation. Well, iPhone OS itself was a innovation but it’s true that it has grown 3 years old but it’s always evolving. Amidst all this, one most not forget that whenever something new enters the market, you need to teach your consumers how to use it and the iPhone was as simple, a 12 year old kid or a 70 year old man could just unlock and start using it easily and i couldn’t have imagined for anything much simpler than this for the iPad. It’s a real smart move.
Next on the track. Where’s the camera? I know if i say that not adding a camera was a brilliant move by Apple, there will be people waiting to kill me. Wait, read the rest of this. When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad at the keynote he showed you a picture. He said that he wanted to introduce something, a new product line which was between the MacBook and the iPod, iPhones and not a replacement for the rest of the products. Get that right, it’s not a replacement.
That will surely answer all of your questions. Steve Jobs is a shrewd businessman. He knows what to sell, when and most importantly he knows what not to sell. Just imagine, if iPad had multitasking and a camera, people would think twice before going for a iPhone. Also the larger screen gives it a huge advantage over the iPod touch, so if it had additional features, would people buy iPod Touch’s?
If iPad had a OS somewhat similar to the MacBook’s and MAC OS X do you think the Mac sales will continue to be as they were? Obviously not. They would see some amount of sales drop and those people will be the one’s the buy iMacs.
What I have learnt from history, it shows that Apple always wants to sell most of it’s products to one customer at a time, like iPhone and Macs have real tight integration via iTunes and so does iPad. It’s like a family and without any member it cannot survive so Apple is trying to do something like that.
Apple is reknowned for the simplicity of it’s products and I have never seen any gadget made by Apple crammed with all features. The art of segregating is very well known by those at Apple and they know what is important for the product and not.
The last thing that i have always noticed is that Apple would not add anything to it’s army till it’s competitors force it to, like the Video Recording feature to the iPhone. It’s this simple game that Apple always plays and wins, either you accept it or not. Overall Apple is seriously a marketing genius!
Then there is this saying,
If your product is great, it doesn’t need to be good.
If you saw the unveiling of iPad, Apple’s “Magical” Tablet device one prominent thing that most of us noticed and you would have too was the presence of the Blue Lego Block of Ambiguity™ 
at many places when Steve Jobs showed us the Demo of Safari on the iPad.
This means that no flash support for iPad. GRR. No Flash means No FarmVille, No flash based games, No Hulu, No flash videos, No flash based applications and if research was to be believed more than 70% of webs active content is flash. No access to it on your iPad (If you ever purchase one).
Not sure about consumers but this news has made fellow workers at Adobe real angry. Lee BrimeLow is a platform evangelist for Adobe and his blog post titled, “The iPad provides the ultimate browsing experience” is a proof to it.
One his Comment replies clear out some more stuff,
@iPadFriend let me say this as clear as I can: APPLE DOES NOT WANT THE FLASH PLAYER TO PERFORM WELL. They don’t want you to go to Hulu or play Flash games because they worry that you won’t buy their apps. We have been trying to work with Apple since the iPhone came out.
Even i don’t get the idea why Apple is keeping flash out of all it’s mobile devices, iPhone, iPod Touch and now iPad. Even if they do so, they would surely get their users very happy but i know, Apple won’t do it.
If they keep going on with this, they’ve already got developers angry and soon consumers would also start feeling what all they have missed without flash. Lee, i am with you!
I don’t know how far this could be true but I think Apple could be working on a Flash like platform itself? Microsoft has silverlight and it’s only Apple who does not have it now so maybe that could be happening and that’s why they are keeping flash out for such a long time.
Thanks Engadget.
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