Steve Jobs’s exile from Apple between 1985 and 1996 is not a particularly well-documented time of his life, yet it’s vital to understanding his reemergence at the company and its subsequent market domination. A recently rediscovered cache of interviews from Jobs’s lost years will be appearing in the May issue of Fast Company, but here are some of the highlights from his talks with technology reporter Brent Schlender.
Our first reaction to Ashton Kutcher playing Steve Jobs was abject horror. But once the because it’s Ashton Kutcher! nausea dissipates, you’re left with something more salient: Steve Jobs is not a hard acting role. And Ashton might be perfect.
Since Steve Jobs’s death, there’s been some speculation as to who might play him in the inevitable string of biopics. Here’s the first: according to Variety, Ashton Kutcher is set to play the role of Jobs in a new indie movie.
Steve Wozniak just sent me this hilarious screenshot, from the wife of one of his friends. It’s from the Genius Recommendations in the movie section of the iTunes store: If you bought the PBS documentary Steve Jobs: One Last Thing you will like Hitler: A Career.
Michael Margolis, a former Apple software engineer who worked on the Apple TV and “implemented much of the Apple TV 2.0 UI years ago” claims that its recently unveiled new UI isn’t so new.
Someone built a Facebook timeline with the life of Steve Jobs. It’s quite nice to go through it and look at his life in this format, rather than having to suffer through Isaacson’s rushed out prose.
Someone found out that Path — and likely other apps too — was stealing your iPhone and iPad’s address book information without telling you about it. This happened because of Path’s greediness, but also because Apple is not protecting your privacy as it should.
Steve Jobs loved music almost as much as he loved Apple, so it’s almost fitting that he was posthumously awarded with music’s highest honour: a Grammy. Apple previously received a Technical Grammy in 2002, but this Grammy, the Trustees Award, is reserved just for Steve.
And you call yourself an Apple fanboy? Dressing up like a mutton-chopped Steve jobs (true to life!) while your buddy tromps about in a cyborg suit comprised of vintage Mac parts — that’s showing your fandom.
