Apple relies on a few key products, all of which require upgrading every 12 months. That’s a horribly short product lifecycle that demands constant innovation, writes John Addis, founder of The Intelligent Investor and a Crikey director.
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Media briefs: News’ hypocrisy … Money down at The Age …
News Limited’s hypocrisy on nepotisim, The Age’s Saturday media column ‘Media Browser’ as dead as a carbon-tax promise and other media tidbits of the day.
Forget Steve Jobs, Apple’s rolling in cash
Steve Jobs disappears and Apple’s share price drops. But then the company announces its biggest problem is it can’t move iPhones fast enough, and everything looks rosy again.
Reading Steve Jobs’ entrails, is it time for Apple to come clean?
Here we are again: divining the future of the world’s biggest technology corporation, Apple Inc, by reading not the entrails of a chicken but the entrails of Steve Jobs. But this is as it must be, given Apple’s infamous culture of secrecy.
Murdoch takes a Shine to his daughter’s company
It’s been an odd old start to the new year for Rupert Murdoch and his family company, News Corp.
Media briefs: Advertiser loves itself … ‘vibrator’ slip … Nova news gaff … The Age goes farming …
The problem with putting your application on iTunes is you open yourself up to scrutiny. In fact, many of the comments on News Limited’s roll-out of iPad applications have been positive. Plus, other media news of the day.
Crikey’s Annual Awards: and the nominees are…
The nominations are in, and they make for an exceedingly good snapshot of the incredible year that was. Good job you lot.
Wanted: a female Bill Gates
Women are no longer expected to be stay-at-home mums but it’s still rare for them to be CEOs of major businesses. Author Gloria Feldt explains how women are more likely to keep quiet, undervalue themselves and not ask for that big pay rise.
Steve Jobs sucks at PR
Apple founder Steve Jobs is notoriously elusive, but also quite rude, as a young student journalist learnt when trying to contact Apple for media comment. Jobs replied “our goals do not include helping you get a good grade.”
An unlikely ménage à trois: Google, Apple and Dylan
The launch of Google’s new instant search function is likely to rankle Apple CEO Steve Jobs, and not just because it steals the techie headlines. To help sell it Google has used one of Jobs’ idols, Bob Dylan, and his iconic Subterranean Homesick Blues video clip.
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Steve Jobs denies the iPhone 4 problems
Steve Jobs continues his bizarre email exchanges with angry Apple customers, this time over one customer’s complaint about the iPhone 4 and its known reception issues, which Jobs calls “rumours” before telling the customer to “calm down”.
The Apple of everyone’s eye
Apple rule the tech and business worlds and every company wants to be the “Apple” of its industry. Farhad Manjoo delves deep into the company to examine exactly what it is that makes it so succesful. And Steve Jobs isn’t the only reason.
Biting into the Apple of temptation
Steve Jobs has unofficially declared himself as the new god of morality and purity, with the iPad declared a no-porn zone. But gay kissing has been banned, while straight kissing is allowed.
Steve Jobs’ most hated website
Gawker has been brutal with its Apple coverage of late, from the leaked iPhone 4, to the email spat with Steve Jobs and now the iPad exposed emails story. Steve Jobs must be getting hot under his skivvy collar.
Technical difficulties? No prob for Jobs
What do you do when technology lets you down at the critical moment? Learn from Steve Jobs — who had Wi-Fi problems during the latest iPhone launch — and quickly move on and forget about it.
The founder who missed out on a bite of the Apple
Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne: the three founders of Apple. Ron who? Well, the third co-founder of Apple sold his 10% share for just US$800 in 1976. It’d be worth US$22 billion today.
The new iPhone 4
Steve Jobs donned the black skivvy for the official unveil of the new iPhone 4, which comes with video camera, video editing software and a high resolution display. Yes, Gizmodo’s leak was 100% on the money.
Porn is well beyond being quarantined
Trying to control porn is a hopeless task, as futile and as foolish as Steve Jobs’ efforts to keep the stuff off his latest new shiny thing. People enjoy sex, and enjoy watching it.
Murdoch and Jobs’ Holy War on bloggers
Steve Jobs is adamant to nip the blogger movement in the bud using iPad newspaper apps, and Rupert Murdoch is happy for him to do so. So far, 20,000 have downloaded Murdoch newspaper apps.
Hand Jobs some credit: he prefers The Chaser to The Oz
The Chaser launched its iPad app last week, and yes it is shocking that we managed to get it through the rigours of Apple approval faster than The Australian, writes The Chaser’s Craig Reucassel.
Has Apple lost its bite?
It’s nearly time for Steve Jobs to don the skivvy and deliver the Apple keynote address. But with all the recent leaks — from the iPhone 4 to the iPod touch — can Jobs still wow the crowd?
Steve Jobs vs. Gawker: the porn email war
Gawker’s Ryan Tate picked an email fight with Apple boss CEO over the idea of the iPad as revolutionary, Adobe vs. Apple, the leaked iPhone 4 saga and whether Apple should censor porn. Surprisingly, Jobs wrote back. Again and again.
Apple adds chunks to its fruit salad
Take note small start-ups, Apple has an acquisitions team buying up all over the place. It’s got the cash, it gives you a three hour deadline to say yay or nay and its on a mission to beat Google to the best small companies.
Steve Jobs: Why I hate Flash
Apple founder Steve Jobs pens an open letter to Adobe, explaining why the company has spurned its Flash multimedia platform for iPods, iPads and iPhones.
Will Apple save or destroy the publishing industry?
With Amazon offering increasingly cut-price e-books, the publishing industry is looking to Apple’s iPad to kill the Kindle and save the book business. But is Steve Jobs really looking after the interests of publishers, or just his own legacy?
