Neowin News Feed for: Steve jobs

Rare Working Apple-1 up for auction at $260-$400k

Ben Buffone — Fri, 03 May 2013 09:19:18 +0100

One of an estimated six Apple-1 computers in working order will soon go on sale. The machine is estimated to fetch between $261,000 and $392,000 through German auctioneer Breker. Read more...

iPhone 4 owners start receiving $15 "Antennagate" check

Steven Parker — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:28:10 +0100

If you are, or were an iPhone 4 owner and you submitted a claim to Apple for the $15 settlement instead of a bumper case for the "Antennagate" issue, then you should receive that check very soon. Read more...

Apple's "Spaceship" Campus 2 is $2 billion over budget, behind schedule

Max Slater-Robins — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:01:20 +0100

Apple's new "Spaceship" Campus 2 is reportedly $2 billion over budget and will be a year late. According to BusinessWeek, the project is not going according to plan, with some angry investors. Read more...

Steve Jobs may have played a role in design of next two iPhones

Anthony Tosie — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:02:17 +0100

The district attorney of San Francisco recently said that an hour-long conversation with an Apple representative revealed that the next two iPhone products were designed under Steve Jobs. Read more...

1984 video of Steve Wozniak surfaces, talks about early Apple, pranks and Jobs

Max Slater-Robins — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 02:10:35 +0000

Videos have emerged of Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, speaking at an Apple enthusiast meeting in 1984. Wozniak talks on a range of subjects, and the videos are well worth a watch. Read more...

Funny or Die to release Steve Jobs parody movie next month

Ben Buffone — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:17:11 +0000

Comedy website Funny or Die is releasing a parody movie called "iSteve" next month, written and shot in just eight days and starring actor Justin Long of the "I'm a Mac" commercials as the title role. Read more...

'Jobs' biopic delayed; no new release date

John Callaham — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:19:57 +0000

Jobs, the independent biopic of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher, won't be released in theaters on April 19th as planned. No new release date was announced. Read more...

Bill Gates talks health care, Microsoft and Steve Jobs on 'Colbert Report' [Update]

Anthony Tosie — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:15:24 +0000

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates stopped by "The Colbert Report" tonight, addressing topics ranging from his work with health care in the developing world to his thoughts on Steve Jobs. Read more...

'jOBS' movie, and Ashton Kutcher, get mixed reviews

John Callaham — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:30:54 +0000

The first reviews of the Steve Jobs biopic jOBS are in and the reactions are decidedly mixed, with Ashton Kutcher's performance as Apple's late CEO praised by some and not by others. Read more...

First clip from Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs movie is in a parking deck

John Callaham — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:34:20 +0000

The first public clip of footage from jOBS has Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs and Josh Gad's Steve Wozniak debating on the future of PCs in a HP parking deck in the 1970s. Read more...

New images from jOBS movie show its version of Woz

John Callaham — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:50:44 +0000

Two new images from the upcoming jOBS biopic have the first look at actor Josh Gad playing Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak alongside Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs. Read more...

Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs biopic premieres at Sundance 2013

John Callaham — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 23:00:28 +0000

jOBS, the upcoming independent biopic on Apple founder Steve Jobs, and starring Ashton Kutcher, will make its public premiere as the closing film for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Read more...

It's probable Apple will lose smartphone wars without Steve Jobs

Andrew Stevenson — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:32:39 +0000

Elon Musk has made voiced his own opinions on the Apple VS Google smartphone wars. He has been quoted as saying Apple will lose, eventually, to Google “because Steve Jobs is out of the picture.” Read more...

Trivia Tuesday: What if...

Tyler Holman — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:57:55 +0100

What if Microsoft's antitrust troubles led to it being split into two companies? What if Steve Jobs never returned to Apple? Trivia Tuesday takes a look at some of technology's greatest what ifs. Read more...

Apple posts Steve Jobs tribute video on anniversary of passing

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 12:47:09 +0100

One year after the passing of Apple's ex-CEO, Steve Jobs, the Apple team has posted a tribute video on their main page honoring him. You can watch the whole thing after the break. Read more...

Steve Jobs wanted to dump Google Search

Tyler Holman — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:51:28 +0100

We all know that Steve Jobs had a vendetta against Google, but a new report shows that it went even deeper than we knew: Jobs seriously considered dumping Google as Apple's default search engine. Read more...

Steve Jobs' former home hit by burglary

John Callaham — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:06:51 +0100

A man has been arrested and charged with stealing over $60,000 of computers and other items from the Palo Alto, California home of the late Apple founder Steve Jobs. Read more...

Bill Gates: History will remember Steve Jobs

Tyler Holman — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 18:02:02 +0100

Bill Gates disagrees with a recent assessment that history will remember him and forget Steve Jobs. Speaking to Charlie Rose, Gates said that Jobs did 'phenomenal work' and deserves to be remembered. Read more...

Original Apple I PC sells for $374,500 at auction

John Callaham — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:37:38 +0100

One of the very few working Apple I PCs, hand-made by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, sold at an auction today for $374,000, over double the expected selling price of $180,000. Read more...

Author: 50 years from now, we'll remember Gates, not Jobs

Tyler Holman — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 16:49:23 +0100

Bestselling author Malcom Gladwell says that 50 years from now we'll have statues of Bill Gates, but people will be asking "who was Steve Jobs?" Of course, no one will remember Microsoft, either. Read more...