Technologizer

Apple Rumors: The Early Years

Monday, September 28, 2009

We live in an, um, golden age of Apple gossip. Thanks to the blogosphere, a surging sea of sites cover an endless array of rumors about the company, from ones that are right on the money to ones that are partially right to ones that aren’t right at all. The conversation spawned by the scuttlebutt [...]

Steve Jobs is Officially Back at Work

Monday, June 29, 2009

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Last week, a quote in an Apple press release was the first sign that Steve Jobs had done what he said he’d do back in January and ended his medical leave in late June. Now it’s official: Apple is saying that Jobs has returned to active duty, working a few days a week at the [...]

What’s in a Name? Apple Removes a Space From “iPhone 3G S”

Monday, June 22, 2009

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I can’t believe I’m writing about this, but the iPhone 3G S is apparently getting a name change, three days after it showed up in stores. No, it’s not becoming the iPhone Pro or the iPhone Speedster or the iPhone Evolution. The Apple press release trumpeting the sale of a million units of the new [...]

Report: Steve Jobs Returning to Apple After Liver Transplant

Saturday, June 20, 2009

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We’re now in late June–the timeframe when Steve Jobs said he would return to his work as Apple CEO when he announced he was going on medical leave last January. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Jobs is planning to do so–possibly part-time at first–and that he had a liver transplant about two months [...]

Jobs Appears Set for June Return to Apple

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

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According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak told the paper in a conversation at the All Things Digital conference that CEO Steve Jobs sounds “healthy and energetic.” Woz’s straight shooting about anything Apple leads me to believe that he wouldn’t be B.S.’ing us. Maybe the time off did Jobs well — after all, [...]

Jobs Still Absent for WWDC

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

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Even though Apple says that Steve Jobs will return to Apple in June, the company said on Wednesday that a “team of executives” led by marketing head Phil Schiller would give the keynote on June 8th at its Worldwide Developers Conference. While it does not directly say Jobs won’t be there, it seems to suggest [...]

Conflicting Reports on Jobs’ Whereabouts

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

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Gossip site Valleywag likely sent the Apple faithful into a near panic late Monday when it reported that ailing Apple CEO Steve Jobs had supposedly checked himself into Stanford Hospital over the weekend in anticipation of an apparent surgical procedure Monday. It is not clear what Jobs may have been getting surgery for. However doctors–who, it [...]

Apple’s Likely Strategy: What Would Steve Do?

Thursday, January 15, 2009

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(Steve Jobs unveils “one more thing”–the MacBook Air–at Macworld Expo San Francisco 2008, his final Macworld keynote to date. This was one of dozens of photos I took at the event, and I never dug it out until now–that’s the classic Jobs smile for sure…) First, a disclaimer, just in case you weren’t sure: I’m not [...]

Steve Jobs to Take Medical Leave Until June

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

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Just breaking now: Steve Jobs is going on medical leave from Apple until June. In a letter to Apple employees, he wrote the following: Team, I am sure all of you saw my letter last week sharing something very personal with the Apple community. Unfortunately, the curiosity over my personal health continues to be a distraction not [...]

12 Questions About Phil Schiller’s Macworld Expo Keynote: How My Guesses Last Week Jibed With Reality

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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I say that I don’t do Apple predictions anymore, but I’m not above musing about upcoming events and expressing opinions about what could happen. Last week, I did just that for Phil Schiller’s first and last Macworld Expo San Francisco keynote, in the form of a dozen questions and attempts to answer them. Now that [...]

Apple’s Brilliant Video Engineer: Anonymous No More

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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My favorite moment at this year’s Macworld Expo keynote had nothing to do with any of the products that were unveiled–it was was about the unveiling of a person. At last year’s Macworld Expo keynote, Steve Jobs waxed rhapsodic about the Apple engineer who had gone on vacation to the Cayman Islands, shot video, and had [...]

Stevenote? Here’s Your Stevenote. Or, More Specifically, Your Woznote.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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Call Steve Wozniak the anti-Steve Jobs. He’s far nerdier than Jobs ever was; he’s not a polished presenter; he has a zillion passions beyond Apple (Segway Polo, anyone?); and nobody’s ever going to spend any time worrying that he’s looking gaunt. But Woz was at least as important to Apple’s success in the 1970s and [...]

A Letter From Steve Jobs

Monday, January 5, 2009

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As I’ve said before, I’m neither a doctor nor an Apple shareholder, and there are few things more personal than one’s health. So I don’t like talking about Steve Jobs’ physical condition–especially when the only thing there is to write about is gossip. In fact, I don’t think I’ve written a single post that was [...]

12 Questions (and Attempts at Answers) About Next Week’s Macworld Expo Non-Stevenote

Monday, December 29, 2008

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We’re now just over a week before Macworld Expo–a timeframe that would normally be bulging at the seams with speculation about what the Steve Jobs keynote would reveal. This time, of course, there will be no Jobs keynote–Apple marketing head Phil Schiller will fill in at the final Apple keynote at the show. And there’s [...]

The Silence of the Fans

Friday, December 19, 2008

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Mac fan Lesa Snider King is understandably none too pleased with Apple’s decision to pull out of Macworld Expo as of 2010. She’s come up with a unique way to express her ire: She’s organizing Silent Keynote, an effort to get folks in attendance at Phil Schiller’s Macworld Expo keynote next month to remain silent [...]

Steve Jobs Keynotes: The (Fairly) Early Years

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

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I’m not sure if there’s any consensus among historians about when the first Steve Jobs keynote happened–or, actually, if anyone has even asked that question until now. I like to think that it would be reasonable to say that it was in August 1976, when Jobs attended a computer fair in Atlantic City and demoed [...]