Bill Gates on Steve Jobs’ death: ‘I will miss him immensely’

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and long-time rival of Apple, has issued a touching statement about Steve Jobs’ death.

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and long-time rival of Apple, has issued a touching statement about Steve Jobs’ death.

Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs has lost his long battle with ill-health and passed away, aged 56.

Apple head honcho and leading light Steve Jobs has announced that he is taking medical leave of absence again so that he can ‘focus on his health’.
What happened when Steve Jobs pitched the iPad in the Dragons’ Den?
Here’s a little bit of fun before you lot go out for a big New Year’s Eve beerfest…

After Apple CEO Steve Jobs decided to put the boot into the likes of Google, app maker TweetDeck, HTC, Motorola, and Research In Motion at his company’s Q4 conference call, industry reaction has been building.

Apple’s soaraway success continues unabated, with the company reporting record breaking profits.

We’ve raged long and hard about our opposition to Apple’s increasingly puritanical crusade, which has seen the company banning apps with naughty words (gosh!) and bikini-clad women (‘gasp!) from the App Store, and more recently, introducingĀ ‘sext’ censoring technology.

Perhaps in recognition of the growing criticisms and gripes from frustrated developers and users, Apple has announced that they are, “relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps” and publishing new app review guidelines.

During Apple’s press launch event yesterday, Steve Jobs was doing his usual ‘big-up’ routine and bragging about the zillions of iOS devices being activated every day, adding what appeared to be a dig at their main smartphone rival, Google’s Android OS.

It looks like those prudes at Apple have struck again, this time quietly removing four erotic novellas listed in the top ten downloads in theĀ iTunes Store and replacing them with duller tones such as Peter Mandelson’s autobiography, The Third Man.

Declared “really hot,” by Steve Jobs speaking at WWDC10, the new iPhone apparently comes with no less than 100 new features, the most obvious one being the all new design.

Perhaps mindful of the flak that Apple has taken for its sometimes arbitrary and moralistic app approval process, Jobs has weighed in to say their AppStore is, “the most vibrant app store on the planet,” with around “15,000 submissions a week in up to 30 different languages.”

Steve Jobs has taken to the stage and is keen to big up Apple’s achievements, with “one iPad selling every 3 seconds.”
Anyone who spends time on the move knows how handy it is to be able to tether your netbook/laptop/tablet-based computing device to your phone to enjoy some internet connectivity on a bigger screen.
The iPad – a delightfully mobile device if we ever saw one – looks to be just the sort of thing that would be perfect for hooking up to your iPhone.
After all, they’re made by the same people, so all the inter-connectivity and seamless interoperability has got to be just a click away, no?
It’s a frustratingly short clip, but we love it. More, please.
Click on for the L0Lz.
Recent Comments