Before his untimely passing last October, the co-founder and former CEO of Apple drafted plans for the below-depicted yacht, unveiled Sunday in Aalsmeer, The Netherlands. “There’s no yacht in my future,” Steve Jobs once told New York Times reporter John Markoff. He meant that he had cofounded Apple with Steve Wozniak not to make mountains of money,…
This guest opinion was reposted with permission by freelance music writer Ed Jennings of Music Of Our Heart, who said in an email about Neil Young’s upcoming Pono music format and player, ”Granted it is in the prototype and patent review stage, but it will have a major positive impact on how we hear music on a quality sound basis.”…
Eleven years ago, I watched Steve Jobs unveil the iPod at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters. The following week, I made my best prediction to date: that descendents of the iPod would replace the PC, as they are now doing. Gizmodo generously called it the best iPod prediction of all time. A colleague once suggested that I get…
Bloomberg reports that Apple is working on a major iTunes overhaul that could mark the biggest change in the program since 2003, when it emerged from Apple’s purchase of a music player for the Mac called SoundJam MP. As I write this, Spotify is playing a track of Mitt Romney talking about health care. It’s…
The late Steve Jobs told the handpicked scribe of his biography Walter Isaacson that he had figured out “one more thing” — how to unite the world of Apple devices and services with the ubiquitous television. Jobs is no longer with us, but at the AllThingsD conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that television remains…
Steve Jobs, architect of a shockingly large portion of today’s computing landscape, left us last year. Do you use an iOS device, or even Android? You have Steve Jobs to thank. As it turns out, you can also listen to “Steve Jobs’ iPod” in your web browser and various devices, thanks to some digging from…
We don’t report much on the action-figures scene, but given that Steve Jobs invented the app as we know it today, we feel obliged to mention that the incredibly life-like Steve Jobs action figure, which was announced after his passing, will not actually go on sale for $99 as had previously been reported. Following what action-figure…
Steve Jobs, the godfather of the app scene (and many others) passed away last October. Jobs was many things, but he was not a fan of bargain-priced hardware, as anyone who has paid, for a Mac, twice what the Windows equivalent would cost. As first reported by Forbes, a company called Inicons (“in icons”?), whose website…
There are plenty of reasons not to buy Apple TV or Google TV, and some of them have to do with the people who hold many of the cards being perfectly happy with the way things are today. You can’t really cut the cord if you like television programming, as many of us do, which is…
In the olden days, most of the music on music fans’ hard drives came from P2P networks and ripped CDs. If Apple’s vision of the music cloud proves dominant, the future will resemble that past, perhaps with MP3s downloaded from music blogs replacing CD ripping. Steve Jobs didn’t believe people wanted to rent music, which…
October 2011 [updated] marks the tenth anniversary of the device that finally allowed me to explain what I do: “I write about iPods and stuff like that.” And today marks the three week anniversary of the passing of Steve Jobs, who didn’t invent the MP3 player or even the iPod for that matter, but arguably…
Apple launches its iCloud suite of services today, offering 5GB of free storage (more if you pay) for music, photos, apps, and other data, all of which sync effortlessly across any number of Apple devices: iMacs, Macbooks, Mac Minis, Mac Pros, iPod Touchs, iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs, and AirPort Expresses. This will strengthen a trend…
At the risk of giving too much away, we have some… interesting apps for you this week. But when haven’t we? This Week In Music Apps has been bringing you farm-fresh picks from the latest, greatest music app releases for 18 weeks straight. Don’t believe us? Check out our past installments for all the apps you can…
This list originally posted on October 6, 2011; reposted October 5 2012, a year after Jobs’ passing. See also: Apple’s video tribute, “Remembering Steve,” followed by a message from current Apple CEO Tim Cook. At an industry event last night to celebrate the launch of a music app that runs on smartphones, tablets and now televisions,…
Ten years ago this month, in a small-ish theater at Apple Computer headquarters at One Infinite Loop, I saw Steve Jobs unveil the iPod. On November 2, 2001, I wrote, “The iPod is revolutionary in a number of ways, and its descendants will replace the PC.” I think I was right, as we’re starting to see now with…
