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Steve Jobs stayed tag-less by leasing a new car every six months | AppleInsider

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California vehicle laws stipulate that anyone with a brand-new car has a maximum of six months to affix a license plate to their vehicle. This loophole was utilized by Jobs, according to ITWire, to avoid putting a plate on his car.

“Jobs made an arrangement with the leasing company; he would always change cars during the sixth month of the lease, exchanging one silver Mercedes SL55 AMG for another identical one,” author David Heath revealed. “At no time would he ever be in a car as old as six months, and thus there was no legal requirement to have the number plates fitted.”

Ha that’s a pretty sweet move.

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Posted 7 months ago
vb: With Steve Jobs’ passing, we have lost one of the greatest technological innovators of our time. Jobs wasn’t just a savvy businessman, he was a visionary who made it his mission to humanize personal computing, rewriting the rules of user experience design, hardware design and software design. His actions reverberated across industry lines: He shook up the music business, dragged the wireless carriers into the boxing ring, changed the way software and hardware are sold and forever altered the language of computer interfaces. Along the way, he built Apple up into one of the most valuable corporations in the world. Quite a run. He will be missed. (via Steve Jobs’ Greatest Achievements | Gadget Lab | Wired.com) Zoom

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With Steve Jobs’ passing, we have lost one of the greatest technological innovators of our time. Jobs wasn’t just a savvy businessman, he was a visionary who made it his mission to humanize personal computing, rewriting the rules of user experience design, hardware design and software design. His actions reverberated across industry lines: He shook up the music business, dragged the wireless carriers into the boxing ring, changed the way software and hardware are sold and forever altered the language of computer interfaces. Along the way, he built Apple up into one of the most valuable corporations in the world. Quite a run. He will be missed. (via Steve Jobs’ Greatest Achievements | Gadget Lab | Wired.com)

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vb: internerd: Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO *** PRESS RELEASE: Letter from Steve Jobs August 24, 2011–To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come. I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee. As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple. I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role. I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you. (via Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO - Deal Journal - WSJ) :’( Holy Jesus. Figures, I buy and iPad and the same day Jobs resigns. The fuck.

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Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO

*** PRESS RELEASE: Letter from Steve Jobs

August 24, 2011–To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.

As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.

I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.

I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.

(via Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO - Deal Journal - WSJ)

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Holy Jesus. Figures, I buy and iPad and the same day Jobs resigns. The fuck.

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Posted 11 months ago

WWDC 2011 Live Blog | Engadget

Don’t forget, WWDC’s Keynote given by The Steve is today! I’ve found Engadget’s coverage to typically be the best.

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http://www.cultofmac.com/john-sculley-on-steve-jobs-the-full-interview-transcript
Have you read it? Isn't it amazing?
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Wow, I’m not sure how I missed this. Thank you very very much for that. Everyone go read it. 

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Apple Passes PetroChina to Become Second-Largest Stock | Bloomberg

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As in, second largest in the world. Second only to Exxon-Mobil.

13 years ago, the company was nearly dead and was on life support. Only a cash infusion from, of all places, Microsoft, saved it. The day that Steve Jobs returned to Apple (through the purchase of his company NeXT - which became the foundation for OS X) Apple’s stock price closed at $3.42. Today it closed at a hair under $289.

Kinda blows your mind huh?

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Posted 1 year ago
Steve Jobs Live from WWDC today! Steve will likely reveal the worst kept secret in Apple’s history today. Engadget has really great live coverage and always has lots of pictures. Check it out! It’s at 10AM Pacific time. Zoom

Steve Jobs Live from WWDC today!

Steve will likely reveal the worst kept secret in Apple’s history today. Engadget has really great live coverage and always has lots of pictures. Check it out! It’s at 10AM Pacific time.

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Posted 2 years ago
Like other Phenomena of the ’80s, Steve Jobs was supposed to be long gone by now. After the spectacular rise of Apple, which went from a garage start-up to a $1.4 billion company in just eight years, the Entrepreneur of the Decade (as one magazine anointed him in 1989) tried to do it all again with a new company called NeXT. He was going to build the next generation of the personal computer, a machine so beautiful, so powerful, so insanely great, it would put Apple to shame. It didn’t happen. After eight long years of struggle and after running through some $250 million, NeXT closed down its hardware division last year and laid off more than 200 employees. It seemed only a matter of time until the whole thing collapsed and Jobs disappeared into hyperspace.
From the Archives: A Revealing Interview With Steve Jobs : Rolling Stone