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Tuesday, September 12, 2017
You won’t believe what your mobile will do in the future
You won’t believe what your mobile will do in the future
IN 30 years since the first mobile phone went on sale we�ve seen it morph from a bank-breaking, basic brick into a slim super computer that can do anything from entertain to tell us what we should be doing next.
With the next-generation (and several generations after that) of mobile phone innovation already being tinkered with by engineers and scientists in hi-tech labs the future of the device is set to change at warp speed. Come with us as we look at what our favourite gadget could do in years ahead.
This is today�s Microsoft Surface Pro 2. But where will technology take us in the future? Picture: AP Photo/Mark LennihanSource:AP
1-2 years
Mobiles were uglier back in the day but at least they could withstand a bashing. Recent years have seen a trade in resilience for beauty but the future will see a turnaround with unbreakable devices. Weatherproof handsets are proving a surprising hit with consumers calling for their precious phones to be made of tougher stuff. Manufacturers look to use the latest materials including scratch and shatter-proof ion-infused glass as well as liquid metal for cases, which is nigh-on indestructible as it bounces back to its original shape after being dented.
Modular mobile phones will hit the market whereby customers can buy a handset made from features they pick and choose to go on it. There�s already a project underway that will allow consumers to decide what their custom handset can do and what it will look like so you can create a phone that perfectly fits your needs. For instance if there�s a phone out there that has a great camera but you don�t need the whizzy other stuff, this modular approach could let you have the best of everything or let you cherry pick the bits that are important to you. Expect to see the pick �n� mix smartphones to shift the goalposts in the not-too-distant future.
Storage sizes and capabilities are always improving.Source:News Limited
3-5 years
With smartphone screens getting bigger and people spending more time on mobiles than any other device expect to see super-high resolution, cinema-quality displays rock handsets. A far cry from the monochrome, one-line displays of the 90s our eyes will be treated to full 4K screens (that�s four-times the resolution of High Definition) right in the palm of our hand. This visual feast is only just reaching our living rooms today but mobile makers are already eyeing it up for our pocketable gadgets. We doubt mobile sizes will continue to grow at this stage (around five-inches seems to be the Goldilocks zone) but within three years a stunning 4K screen will be de facto.
If you think 4G browsing on your phone is pretty speedy today, just wait a few years and you�ll be blown away. The next-generation wireless mobile network could be quick enough to download a high-def movie in just 30 seconds. This also means it could make storage sizes obsolete as everything from your apps to entertainment could be accessed from the cloud within the blink of an eye. The infrastructure of this technology is being readied for a 2020 release.
The camera will evolve in our smartphones to do far more than your standard selfie. 3D technology using wide-angle lenses and sensors will be able to map your surroundings, meaning you could actually walk around inside your photos. Mobile cameras will understand and process the space around you and then remodel it in a 3D image. You could revisit old birthday party pictures, explore old holiday snaps or take a look around hotels, houses for sale or eBay items in great detail. The technology is currently being tested in projects in both mobile handsets and a larger system called Matterport, who worked on Microsoft�s Kinect sensor.
The unbreakable smartphone is closer than you think.Source:AFP
6-10 years
The fabled foldable mobile has been floating around almost as long as the flying car but breakthroughs in material technology � in particular the super thin, super strong and conductive wonder material, Graphene � will make this more than a crazy concept. There are already mobiles on the market that have a slight bend and we�ve seen manufacturers show off flexy displays at gadget shows but within ten years we could see mobiles that change shape to suit our needs and roll up right into our pocket. There wouldn�t be a need for both tablet and mobile, or the decision of what screen size to go for � imagine being able to unravel a screen to different sizes whether you want more space for browsing or less to just make a call. We know mobile makers are keen on this flexible, wrappable, mouldable, unbreakable form factor and research labs like the Human Media Lab at Queen�s University in Canada have already produced a primitive folding handset.
Our phones have truly become an indispensable part of us.Source:ThinkStock
Batteries last about as long as an asthmatic in a sprint race these days but in the hi-tech future we could see our devices run for 20 years on a single charge. A team at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have developed a titanium dioxide gel that is a dab hand at storing lithium ions in its nanostructure. In non-sciencey words: it�s very efficient at storing its charge. Of course, this Holy Grail of an everlasting battery is being chased after by many so there are other alternative battery technologies being developed. There�s a team in Korea looking to transform the heat generated from our bodies into electricity to power phones; there�s also the idea of piezoelectricity which converts movement into energy so we could walk and charge; and researchers in California have made a tattoo that generates electricity from our own sweat. So it looks like the future phone�s power supply might be something we won�t have to sweat about (literally).
Many technologists have postulated the idea of singularity.Source:News Limited
10-15 years
If sci-fi films have taught us anything it�s that holographic floating displays will burst out of our mobile devices in the future. They�re not wrong. A 3D screen materialising in thin air we can prod and manipulate is already in development from start-up Ostendo Technologies. Their �Quantum Photonic Imager� is a Tic-Tac sized projector unit that can beam a high-resolution image into the open like something from Iron Man. In ten-years� time the technology would be finetuned to a point where we�re fully interactive with the floating screen � we could watch sport play out in front of us, get inside maps and play games in a whole new way. And Tinder sure is going to be interesting �.
Wearable technology is already trying to bridge the necessity to carry a phone and in years going forward we will see the physical handset disappear from pockets altogether. Just as the smartphone managed to evaporate the hardware of things like sat navs, MP3 players, wallets and � to some extent � watches and compact cameras, new smartwatches and smartglasses operated by spoken command will become the primary communications device to make the mobile vanish. If you�re thinking �where�s the screen?!� it could be displayed on glasses lenses or perhaps that pill-sized holographic projector could unfurl it in midair for you. How do you take a selfie would be the next one to answer �
3D holograms, anyone?Source:ThinkStock
20-30 years
In twenty years we�ll look back and laugh at how we once had to actually hold our phones to operate them. Going way beyond wearables, a smart contact lens could offer a device-free experience to display messages, web pages, directions and video literally right in front of your eye. A lens with basic computer circuitry is currently being tested, which contains sensors to alert diabetics to dangerous glucose levels. With nanotechnology having the potential to build robots the size of blood cells the prospect of developing computing components small enough to fit on a contact lens is a distinct possibility.
As the memory of clunky, manual mobile handsets fade into a world of invisible communication devices plugged straight into our bodies we will also see highly sophisticated operating systems that we can talk to like another human. Built-in personal assistants are becoming more intuitive knowing what we like, where we�ve been and what we�re doing. If our mobiles can already work out and tell us when to leave work in order to catch our usual train while reminding us to say happy birthday to Brenda on our way and warning us how many calories are in that biscuit before we�ve even eaten it can you imagine what else it�ll be able to do as this intelligence continues to grow? The movie Her does a great job of showing us how operating systems could evolve to a point where we can freely converse with the OS rather than the simple experience we know today. Forget asking if it�s going to rain, you can have full convos about the state of the weather. A computer has already managed to dominate the television game show Jeopardy providing complex human-like answers to questions. Some might find this petrifying but us technophiles can�t wait. Artificial intelligence is coming so get your small talk ready.
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Monday, September 11, 2017
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Saturday, September 2, 2017
What is Android rooting
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You might have heard or read about Android Rooting or Android Root. There are many misconceptions about android rooting. Some say it is like Jailbreaking in Apple iOS, some says it is difficult and only testers and developers should try these thing.
Im here to clear there misconceptions and to tell you what android rooting is and what it is for.
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Rooting is the process that allows an Android OS user to attain privileged access or root access on their android devices. Android OS is Linux based operating system and rooting gives similar access to administrative permissions as on Linux and such operating systems.We can root our Android devices to overcome system limitations set by device manufacturers, alter or replace system applications, run apps which requires root permissions, modify current firmware(rom), and install a new custom firmware or latest Android versions.
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Friday, August 18, 2017
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Monday, August 14, 2017
The Commissions DSMS and CJEU case law what relationship
The Commissions DSMS and CJEU case law what relationship
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| The proposal (for a directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market) |
As reported by this blog, on 14 September last the EU Commission unveiled its second copyright package, ie a new set of proposals [the first being the proposed regulation on cross-border content portability in December 2015] aimed at improving the existing EU copyright framework as part of its Digital Single Market Strategy (DSMS).
Among the contents of the package, so far what has attracted the greatest degree of attention is the Commissions proposal for a directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM Directive).
Much has been said on the ambitiousness (or lack thereof) and merits (or demerits, depending on ones own perspective) of relevant provisions, notably those regarding new mandatory exceptions [Articles 3 to 6], a new related right in press publications [Article 11], and the so called value gap [Article 13].
Discussion has been focusing on the relationship between the new proposed directive and the existing body of legislation [for instance: is Article 13 compatible with the Ecommerce Directive? The DSM Directive is silent as regards how it relates to this piece of EU legislation] and the economic/legal rationale of the various initiatives [do we really need a new related right for press publishers, and will it change anything?].
The DSM Directive and the CJEU: why asking?
What however appears to have been left partly out of the debate is what relationship the DSM Directive has and will have with the existing body of case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
The question is worth addressing for two main reasons, I think.
First, because the DSM Directive itself attempts a codification of CJEU case law. Examples are Recital 38 [with regard to the 2009 decision in LOr�al, noted here] and Recital 36 [with regard to the 2015 decision in Reprobel, noted here].
Secondly, because the DSM refers to key concepts but fails to define them. This is particularly the case of communication to the public. For instance, from Recital 38 it is apparent that an obligation for hosting providers that "store and provide access to the public to copyright protected works or other subject-matter uploaded by their users" to conclude licensing agreements with rightholders arises when they perform an act of communication to the public. Similarly, with regard to the press publishers right, Recital 33 clarifies (?) that this new related right would not go as far as including "acts of hyperlinking which do not constitute communication to the public" within its scope.
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| Does the proposed directive re-write certain CJEU case law? |
(1) A "codification" of existing CJEU case law: a good attempt?
Starting from the first question, while in principle it is laudable that policy action considers and addresses the implications of judicial decisions, in the case of the DSM Directive this attempt may prove controversial.
Recital 38 states that "[i]n respect of Article 14 [of the Ecommerce Directive], it is necessary to verify whether the service provider plays an active role, including by optimising the presentation of the uploaded works or subject-matter or promoting them, irrespective of the nature of the means used therefor."
From this it could appear that: optimisation ? active role ? ineligibility for Article 14 safe harbour
But is this what the CJEU really said in LOr�al [and previously, in Google France]? Didnt the Court rather state [simplifying] that: active role, eg optimisation ? knowledge/control data stored ? ineligibility for Article 14 safe harbour
Rather than codifying LOr�al - at Recital 38 the Commission has created done something different, in the sense that the knowledge/control element appears to have vanished. Does this mean that falling within Article 14 safe harbour might become increasingly difficult for hosting providers that give access to "large amounts of works"? If it was sufficient for a hosting provider to optimise results [even by means of an automated process and even without the need for any knowledge/control of relevant data] to be outside the boundaries of the safe harbour, then Article 14 would become applicable in the [very tiny, eg possibly only Dropbox-like situations] minority of cases ...
Turning to Recital 36, the Commission appears to link the introduction of a press publishers right to the outcome of the Reprobel case. But did that case [beneficiaries of private copying levies on printers sales] have to do with "press publications" or "digital uses" at all? No, so the raison d�tre of Recital 36 is a bit difficult to grasp ...
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| Acts of "communication to the public" |
(2) Lack of definition of key concepts
Turning to the second point, the DSM Directive refers extensively to a concept that the InfoSoc Directive itself fails to define, ie "communication to the public".
It has taken the CJEU several judgments to try and make sense of the notion of "communication to the public", but as of today it is unclear whether the subjects referred to in Article 13 of the DSM Directive would be considered as making acts of communication to the public themselves. Yet, the entire Article 13 is built - and almost considers it a given - on the idea that hosting providers may be primarily liable for unauthorised acts of communication ...
In the recent GS Media decision [discussed here, here, here, here], the CJEU confirmed that if one construes communication as merely requiring the making available of a work, ie without the need for any actual transmission, then what needs to be considered is "the indispensable role played by the user and the deliberate nature of its intervention. The user makes an act of communication when it intervenes, in full knowledge of the consequences of its action, to give access to a protected work to its customers, and does so, in particular, where, in the absence of that intervention, its customers would not, in principle, be able to enjoy the ... work" [para 35]
One could wonder whether in the case of hosting platforms, it is the host or rather the user that plays such indispensable role to give access to a protected work.
As I noted here, in light of certain decisions of the CJEU and national courts alike, it may be argued that � in the case of a copyright work made available through the service of a passive online intermediary (host) � the latter would not commit an act of (unauthorised) communication to the public (potentially giving rise to primary liability for copyright infringement), because the role that is �indispensable� in the whole process is the one of the third-party/uploader, rather than that of the hosting provider.
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| Should anything be changed in the proposed directive? |
A similar degree of uncertainty also exists in relation to Recital 33, with the addition that in the case of the press publishers right it is not entirely clear why Article 11 refers to the making available right [ie a sub-species of the right of communication to the public, as the CJEU clarified in C More, noted here] while Recital 33 refers to the right of communication to the public ...
All in all the DSM Directive fails to define what is to be intended by "communication to the public" and the questions becomes whether this would raise uncertainties when determining when a host provider is required - as opposed to merely invited - to conclude licensing agreements.
Conclusion
Unlike legislative proposals advanced in the past, from the DSM Directive it is clear that EU legislature is to give account not only of existing legislation but also CJEU case law and its impact.
While this demonstrates both the relevance of the CJEU in shaping the EU copyright regime and the attention that different EU institutions devote to each others activity, it also raises questions regarding the substance of such interplay and resulting power struggles.
On the one hand, the DSM Directive seems to engage in an attempt to codify or even re-write and remedy to negative [negative, but for whom?] outcomes of CJEU cases. Recital 38 and LOr�al is an example but an even more bizarre one if Recital 36 and Reprobel ...
On the other hand, certain provisions in the DSM Directive [eg Article 13] are built around certain key notions, eg communication to the public, that at the legislative level are defined nowhere. The question thus becomes whether the resulting gaps should be filled by referring to relevant CJEU decisions. If this was the case than the results might not be those wished for by certain categories of stakeholders ...
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Thursday, June 11, 2015
Heres What Happened When 17 Ordinary People Met Steve Jobs
Everyone "knows" Steve Jobs, or thinks they do, in the sense that we saw him do those legendary on-stage product launches of the iPhone and the iPad. But what was Jobs like when he was off stage, when he wasnt changing history with Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, Jony Ive and Tim Cook?
Theres an amazing thread on Quora, the question-and-answer site, for people to tell stories of the times they "randomly" met Steve Jobs.
Weve edited a few — there are many more on the thread, go look! — and excerpted them here.
This person told Jobs he would "ruin" Apple.
Michell Smith tells this story: Prior to his return to Apple, it was obvious that the company was in trouble. Larry Ellison had floated the idea of a hostile takeover of the company, but it seemed to some of us Apple watchers that then-CEO Gil Amelios turnaround plan might work.
I wrote an impassioned email to Steve at Pixar, pleading with him to find something else to do with his time. "Please," I implored him, "dont come back to Apple, youll ruin it."
… And then he wrote the words Ill never forget:
"You may be right. But if I succeed, remember to look in the mirror and call yourself an asshole for me."
Michell Smith tells this story: Prior to his return to Apple, it was obvious that the company was in trouble. Larry Ellison had floated the idea of a hostile takeover of the company, but it seemed to some of us Apple watchers that then-CEO Gil Amelios turnaround plan might work.
I wrote an impassioned email to Steve at Pixar, pleading with him to find something else to do with his time. "Please," I implored him, "dont come back to Apple, youll ruin it."
… And then he wrote the words Ill never forget:
"You may be right. But if I succeed, remember to look in the mirror and call yourself an asshole for me."
A childhood friend of Jobs pretended he didnt recognize him.
Jack Heringer was a childhood friend of Jobs from early 1960s, but they parted company when they went to different middle schools. Then, in 1976, they met in a store: He showed up, recognized me and called me over. "Arent you Jack Heringer from grammar school?" he asked. And, in that millisecond, my lifes single most regretful experience occurred. I replied, " Yes thats me...and WHO ARE YOU?" I pretended I didnt remember him at all.
I have been kicking myself forever since!!!!!!!!!
Jobs met this woman who was smoking at dinner and did not like it one bit.
William Matthies and five others had dinner with Jobs in the early 1980s in New York: Dinner was over and while we waited for desert, Ann lit up a cigarette (remember this was the early 80s in NYC), holding it away and blowing smoke away from the rest of us at the table. Steve, who was seated next to Ann, gave no indication that this bothered him. He simply went on talking animatedly as he had all dinner.
At one point Ann put her lit cigarette in an ashtray the opposite side of Steve. He never looked at it but must have seen her put it down because without so much as a glance toward her or the cigarette, without breaking from whatever topic he was currently holding forth on at that moment, he reached across her,picked the cigarette up from the ashtray, and dropped it in her half full water glass.
I can still see the stunned looks on everyones face except Steve who continued to educate the rest of us on...I have no idea.
The day Jobs argued at the checkout at Whole Foods
Roy Pereira bumped into Jobs while doing the groceries: I bumped into Steve at the Palo Alto Whole Foods near both of our homes. He was in front of me in line paying for his groceries. It was the express checkout and he was wearing his traditional black turtle-neck. This was back in the early 2000s.
Here was a very wealthy, smart guy arguing with the cashier about what the correct change was for his purchase. He was demanding that he got another quarter ($0.25) for his change. This discussion went on for several minutes and held up the line so much that everyone behind him (including us) were getting annoyed.
The time Jobs got excited by Excel in 1985.
Randall Edwards met Jobs at an IT conference: I had to get back to work so I headed out of the hotel into a nearby hotel where my car was parked. I pressed the button for the elevator, the doors opened and there was ... Steve Jobs!
I told him how much I enjoyed his presentation and shook his hand. He asked me what I did and I told him I was an IT Consultant. He told me about this amazing software that Microsoft was working on called "Excel". It is going to be phenomenal and that I should check it out. I told him I would.
"Boy, what a dick," I remember thinking, but ...
In the mid-1990s, after Jobs was kicked out of Apple and went to work at NeXT, Ramin Firoozye got a meeting with Jobs: He walked in 1/2 hour late, put his feet up on the table and asked me what I had. I introduced myself and mentioned that a couple of the engineers were ex-Apple people. ...
For the next half an hour he went on to rant pretty much non-stop... about the arrogance of Apple (!!!), the quality of their products, and anything unsavory you could think of. There were a lot of you Apple people in there. I tried to break in and mention that we werent really related to Apple (except the demo was running on a Mac Powerbook) but there was no stopping him.
"Boy, what a dick," I remember thinking. It went on and on.
… Then he comes back in. I was sitting down. He gets in front of the whiteboard and starts drawing notes. For the next I-dont-know-how-long he mapped out precisely how the product could be rolled out, the strategy for taking it to market, how it should be positioned, what other parts would be needed to fill in the gaps, all the way down to the features that should be taken out or added. It was the most amazing, useful, spot-on, and entertaining display of product management erudition Id ever seen. He completely understood the product, the space, and what it could be used for.
The day Jobs visited a rival electronics store across the street from Apple in 2007
Mark Young remembers Jobs appearance at the Helio store in 2007, located in Palo Alto across street from the Apple Store. Jobs had poked his head in once and the store staff did not recognize him: Two weeks later, the same manager was inside the store giving a demo of the amazing Helio smartphone to some prospective customers when he was interrupted by someone at the door. It was the same guy in the black turtleneck and blue jeans. “You guys STILL just dont get it, do you???” the guy said in an elevated voice from the entrance of the store. Then before the manager could respond, the guy was gone again.
The manager was visibly annoyed and said to his customers “Who is this guy and who the hell does he think he is???”
“Thats the founder of Apple,” replied the customers.
This guys car broke down outside Jobs house.
Tim Smith knew his car was in front of the Jobs family house but tried to play it cool: So Steve comes out. ... so Jobs actually sits down in the Alpine and tries to crank it – with his kid sitting behind him. To no avail.
... The car didn’t start. ... Steve said something like “piece of shit” as he got out, and walked back into the house. Classic Steve – he was right.
Jobs used this guys fan mail in an iPad product demo.
Chaitanya Pandit wrote jobs an email: I went home and before going to bed wrote a short email to Steve about how an iPad got a girl interested in me and almost forgot about it until. ... Days later, it was his WWDC keynote and I was following a few live blogs that night as I always do (I was GMT +5:30), then suddenly I saw something that was very familiar, it was my email that Steve displayed on the huge screen behind him. He said “It is magical, I know it because I got this email: I was sitting in a café with my iPad, and it got a girl interested in me!.” “So there’s proof.”
This guy got a customer service phone call from Jobs when his computer was broke.
Matt McCoy couldnt get any joy out of Apple customer service when his MacBook wouldnt work properly, so he randomly emailed Jobs: The next day I got a call from Palo Alto.
Me: "Hello?"
Caller: "Hey Matt. This is Steve Jobs. I just wanted to let you know that I got your email and we are going to do everything we can to recover your missing hard drive.
Me: "Whoa... thank you!"
Caller: "Im going to pass you on to my assistant, and hes going to take care of you from here. Well get you taken care of. Hold."
Then the call was transferred to a guy named "Tim". Im still not sure what Tims last name was... is it even possible that it was Tim Cook? I dont know what Tims history is at Apple.
The day Jobs ate unrecognized at an Indian restaurant.
Anurag Wadehra was at the restaurant: So, it was with great amusement, we watched Steve raise his hand several times to attract the attention of the waiter, who summarily ignored him. As the only white guy in the restaurant, we thought he would be instantly recognized and served with special attention. Instead, he had the worst table in the house. A bored waiter passed plastic menu cards at his family without giving a second glance. Eventually, he did get served with the mass efficiency of an overworked staff. And, no one bothered him during his dinner either.
My wife and I observed in awe as Steve and his family enjoyed a quiet meal in the riotous, inexpensive place in the heart of Silicon Valley. It dawned on us that no one in the restaurant had recognized Steve in his low key attire and a stubble. At the end, when no one came to his table to present the check, Steve rose up, dropped a few cash notes on the table and walked out, as the server wiped his table.
Just then, the manager walked by, and I asked him, "Did you know that was Steve Jobs?". He smiled and gave me the Indian head shake - a cross between yes and no. To this day, I dont know what he meant.
The day Jobs met a recruiter for Sun Microsystems.
Bill Lee: In 1988, I was self-employed as a recruiter and had referred a number of candidates to Steve at NeXT Computer, which he subsequently hired. I had also worked at Sun Microsystems as a contract recruiter. In September of that year, Steve invited me to his offices on Deer Creek Road in Palo Alto for an informal interview. He was 45 minutes late. As soon as Steve led me into his office and closed the door, he turned and said, "You recruited for Sun and Sun hires shitty people."
"Well," I retorted, "You hired the ones Sun didnt want."
At that point, Steve cracked a big smile and exclaimed, "Touché!"
This man discovered Jobs was on email as early as 1989.
Phillip Remaker recalls: When I was at the University of Pennsylvania in 1989, some sales folks from NeXT did a demo of the NeXT Cube to some students at the Distributed Systems Lab. I noted on their business cards that NeXT email addresses were of the form firtname_lastname@next.com. On a lark, I shot off a note to Steve_Jobs@next.com asking if he read his own email and expressing my fanboy sentiments.
Phil:
Yes, I do have an Internet address. Please help me by not spreading this fact around indiscriminately....
Thanks for the feedback.
Im glad you like our little machine.
Take care,
Steve Jobs.
Jobs goes to the repair store just like everyone else.
Andrew Gerber-Duffy remembers: I was in the Sony Style store at the Stanford Mall. I cant remember what it was I was buying.
As I was waiting in the checkout line, I realized that Steve was 2 people ahead of me. He was wearing his usual black turtleneck and faded blue jeans. He was holding a projector.
"So Id like to get this repaired," he said to the obviously bored cashier.
To my surprise, the man at the counter seemed totally oblivious to his identity.
"Okay," he responded, "what name do you want it under for pickup?"
"Just put it under Steve," he said.
The day Jobs explained why he improved the cafeteria food at Apple.
Gavin Cook worked at one of Apples biggest clients. At a formal meeting, he asked: "Hi Steve, So how did changing your company cafeteria effect the company culture?"
... and with that Steve was off...
"It.. It, had nothing to do with company culture! The stuff they were feeding us was slop!"
"And you know hardly any one was eating here, and when they go off campus they dont go for an hour, they are gone for an hour and a half or two hours, So less work is getting done. And when they are out in a restaurant talking about their projects, people overhear things."
"So I called my friend who was an executive chef and asked him what it would take for him to come work here and fix it. He said he wanted a wood burning pizza oven and I said Done! So now our cafe staff are company employees and when the engineers have to work late we can have the cafe stay open. Now we have vegetarian options and more variety. With better food people stay on campus and interact with each other more."
The day Jobs was nearly killed in the parking lot at Apple.
Anonymous: I may or may not have been a passenger in a car that may or may not have nearly hit a certain person who may or may not have been Steve Jobs as he walked across the parking lot of an Apple Campus in California. He may or may not have held up his hand, winced, then smiled and waved as those of us who may or may not have been Apple employees in the car looked on in complete shock, too terrified to wave back. He may or may not have jogged out of harms way at that point, while we may or may not have just sat there, stunned. We may or may not have switched drivers for the rest of our training week out there.
This couple asked Jobs to settle a bet over how the Macintosh was named.
Bill Sheppards wife had long maintained the name came from a contest for school students: We approached Steve and asked if he could settle a marital dispute for us. Without any hint of a smile he responded "if I can have one of your children" (which didnt come across at all creepy, though I see as I write this that it could be interpreted that way). We offered the dog (he wasnt interested), then my wife told the story of the naming contest. Steve said that Apple had a large marketing department to do things like pick names for their computers, and it was absurd to think theyd leave that to fifth graders.
Data source: via BI (By Jim Edwards)
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I have been kicking myself forever since!!!!!!!!!
Jobs met this woman who was smoking at dinner and did not like it one bit.
William Matthies and five others had dinner with Jobs in the early 1980s in New York: Dinner was over and while we waited for desert, Ann lit up a cigarette (remember this was the early 80s in NYC), holding it away and blowing smoke away from the rest of us at the table. Steve, who was seated next to Ann, gave no indication that this bothered him. He simply went on talking animatedly as he had all dinner.
At one point Ann put her lit cigarette in an ashtray the opposite side of Steve. He never looked at it but must have seen her put it down because without so much as a glance toward her or the cigarette, without breaking from whatever topic he was currently holding forth on at that moment, he reached across her,picked the cigarette up from the ashtray, and dropped it in her half full water glass.
I can still see the stunned looks on everyones face except Steve who continued to educate the rest of us on...I have no idea.
The day Jobs argued at the checkout at Whole Foods
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Here was a very wealthy, smart guy arguing with the cashier about what the correct change was for his purchase. He was demanding that he got another quarter ($0.25) for his change. This discussion went on for several minutes and held up the line so much that everyone behind him (including us) were getting annoyed.
The time Jobs got excited by Excel in 1985.
Randall Edwards met Jobs at an IT conference: I had to get back to work so I headed out of the hotel into a nearby hotel where my car was parked. I pressed the button for the elevator, the doors opened and there was ... Steve Jobs!
I told him how much I enjoyed his presentation and shook his hand. He asked me what I did and I told him I was an IT Consultant. He told me about this amazing software that Microsoft was working on called "Excel". It is going to be phenomenal and that I should check it out. I told him I would.
"Boy, what a dick," I remember thinking, but ...
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For the next half an hour he went on to rant pretty much non-stop... about the arrogance of Apple (!!!), the quality of their products, and anything unsavory you could think of. There were a lot of you Apple people in there. I tried to break in and mention that we werent really related to Apple (except the demo was running on a Mac Powerbook) but there was no stopping him.
"Boy, what a dick," I remember thinking. It went on and on.
… Then he comes back in. I was sitting down. He gets in front of the whiteboard and starts drawing notes. For the next I-dont-know-how-long he mapped out precisely how the product could be rolled out, the strategy for taking it to market, how it should be positioned, what other parts would be needed to fill in the gaps, all the way down to the features that should be taken out or added. It was the most amazing, useful, spot-on, and entertaining display of product management erudition Id ever seen. He completely understood the product, the space, and what it could be used for.
The day Jobs visited a rival electronics store across the street from Apple in 2007
Mark Young remembers Jobs appearance at the Helio store in 2007, located in Palo Alto across street from the Apple Store. Jobs had poked his head in once and the store staff did not recognize him: Two weeks later, the same manager was inside the store giving a demo of the amazing Helio smartphone to some prospective customers when he was interrupted by someone at the door. It was the same guy in the black turtleneck and blue jeans. “You guys STILL just dont get it, do you???” the guy said in an elevated voice from the entrance of the store. Then before the manager could respond, the guy was gone again.
The manager was visibly annoyed and said to his customers “Who is this guy and who the hell does he think he is???”
“Thats the founder of Apple,” replied the customers.
This guys car broke down outside Jobs house.
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... The car didn’t start. ... Steve said something like “piece of shit” as he got out, and walked back into the house. Classic Steve – he was right.
Jobs used this guys fan mail in an iPad product demo.
Chaitanya Pandit wrote jobs an email: I went home and before going to bed wrote a short email to Steve about how an iPad got a girl interested in me and almost forgot about it until. ... Days later, it was his WWDC keynote and I was following a few live blogs that night as I always do (I was GMT +5:30), then suddenly I saw something that was very familiar, it was my email that Steve displayed on the huge screen behind him. He said “It is magical, I know it because I got this email: I was sitting in a café with my iPad, and it got a girl interested in me!.” “So there’s proof.”
This guy got a customer service phone call from Jobs when his computer was broke.
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Me: "Hello?"
Caller: "Hey Matt. This is Steve Jobs. I just wanted to let you know that I got your email and we are going to do everything we can to recover your missing hard drive.
Me: "Whoa... thank you!"
Caller: "Im going to pass you on to my assistant, and hes going to take care of you from here. Well get you taken care of. Hold."
Then the call was transferred to a guy named "Tim". Im still not sure what Tims last name was... is it even possible that it was Tim Cook? I dont know what Tims history is at Apple.
The day Jobs ate unrecognized at an Indian restaurant.
Anurag Wadehra was at the restaurant: So, it was with great amusement, we watched Steve raise his hand several times to attract the attention of the waiter, who summarily ignored him. As the only white guy in the restaurant, we thought he would be instantly recognized and served with special attention. Instead, he had the worst table in the house. A bored waiter passed plastic menu cards at his family without giving a second glance. Eventually, he did get served with the mass efficiency of an overworked staff. And, no one bothered him during his dinner either.
My wife and I observed in awe as Steve and his family enjoyed a quiet meal in the riotous, inexpensive place in the heart of Silicon Valley. It dawned on us that no one in the restaurant had recognized Steve in his low key attire and a stubble. At the end, when no one came to his table to present the check, Steve rose up, dropped a few cash notes on the table and walked out, as the server wiped his table.
Just then, the manager walked by, and I asked him, "Did you know that was Steve Jobs?". He smiled and gave me the Indian head shake - a cross between yes and no. To this day, I dont know what he meant.
The day Jobs met a recruiter for Sun Microsystems.
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| REUTERS |
"Well," I retorted, "You hired the ones Sun didnt want."
At that point, Steve cracked a big smile and exclaimed, "Touché!"
This man discovered Jobs was on email as early as 1989.
Phillip Remaker recalls: When I was at the University of Pennsylvania in 1989, some sales folks from NeXT did a demo of the NeXT Cube to some students at the Distributed Systems Lab. I noted on their business cards that NeXT email addresses were of the form firtname_lastname@next.com. On a lark, I shot off a note to Steve_Jobs@next.com asking if he read his own email and expressing my fanboy sentiments.
Phil:
Yes, I do have an Internet address. Please help me by not spreading this fact around indiscriminately....
Thanks for the feedback.
Im glad you like our little machine.
Take care,
Steve Jobs.
Jobs goes to the repair store just like everyone else.
Andrew Gerber-Duffy remembers: I was in the Sony Style store at the Stanford Mall. I cant remember what it was I was buying.
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| Simon & Schuster |
"So Id like to get this repaired," he said to the obviously bored cashier.
To my surprise, the man at the counter seemed totally oblivious to his identity.
"Okay," he responded, "what name do you want it under for pickup?"
"Just put it under Steve," he said.
The day Jobs explained why he improved the cafeteria food at Apple.
Gavin Cook worked at one of Apples biggest clients. At a formal meeting, he asked: "Hi Steve, So how did changing your company cafeteria effect the company culture?"
... and with that Steve was off...
"It.. It, had nothing to do with company culture! The stuff they were feeding us was slop!"
"And you know hardly any one was eating here, and when they go off campus they dont go for an hour, they are gone for an hour and a half or two hours, So less work is getting done. And when they are out in a restaurant talking about their projects, people overhear things."
"So I called my friend who was an executive chef and asked him what it would take for him to come work here and fix it. He said he wanted a wood burning pizza oven and I said Done! So now our cafe staff are company employees and when the engineers have to work late we can have the cafe stay open. Now we have vegetarian options and more variety. With better food people stay on campus and interact with each other more."
The day Jobs was nearly killed in the parking lot at Apple.
Anonymous: I may or may not have been a passenger in a car that may or may not have nearly hit a certain person who may or may not have been Steve Jobs as he walked across the parking lot of an Apple Campus in California. He may or may not have held up his hand, winced, then smiled and waved as those of us who may or may not have been Apple employees in the car looked on in complete shock, too terrified to wave back. He may or may not have jogged out of harms way at that point, while we may or may not have just sat there, stunned. We may or may not have switched drivers for the rest of our training week out there.This couple asked Jobs to settle a bet over how the Macintosh was named.
Bill Sheppards wife had long maintained the name came from a contest for school students: We approached Steve and asked if he could settle a marital dispute for us. Without any hint of a smile he responded "if I can have one of your children" (which didnt come across at all creepy, though I see as I write this that it could be interpreted that way). We offered the dog (he wasnt interested), then my wife told the story of the naming contest. Steve said that Apple had a large marketing department to do things like pick names for their computers, and it was absurd to think theyd leave that to fifth graders.
Data source: via BI (By Jim Edwards)
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