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Steve Jobs epic journey comes to an end today at age of 56. The most innovative person of the century passed away, just after the release of its latest version of iPhone i.e. iPhone 4S. His company is and will be the most successful company, following on his philosophy “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it leaving someone else’s life”.Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary”.

As described on Apple website “Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple”.

It’s been the most successful journey, with the company seeing the worst and the best in Jobs tenure. From the start when Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started the company, they have released the most innovative, unique and trend setting products. Starting from Apple I, Apple II to iPod, iPhone to the latest iPad. All these products have redefined the industry and forced the traditional technologists to change the way they think and use their tech products.

From all the technology lovers on this planet, we will miss you……………………………

Going by the previous record of iPhone variants getting released in Apple’s WWDC Conference in June every year, it can be predicted that the next iPhone 5 would be released in June as well. Some of the rumored features include new OS ie.  iOS 5, revamped MobileMe service in which the prices would be slashed as well, a A5 Dual core chip for much richer experience with graphics and many more features. Check out CNET and Techradar for more insight.

The other things that are also poised to be released, this summer is next generation desktop Apple Lion OS. It’s a marriage between iOS and Mac OSX with many new features taken from its mobile counterpart. It includes many cool features like grid layout of Apps, full screen Apps, autosaving and resuming features.(Source: CNET UK)

So stay tuned for the coming Apple conference, fingers crossed.

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At the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC, 2010) iPhone 4 was showcased by Steve Jobs and also confirmed the UK launch date of 24th June. Mobile phone operators which include O2, Orange and Vodafone will launch this new version of iPhone in the coming two weeks. The tariffs are yet to be made public but O2 are giving options wherein if the contract is due for an upgrade in June or July can get iPhone for free or if you want an early upgrade can pay a cost towards the phone and get it as soon as its released.

There are many new features integrated into the new iPhone 4 that includes a great display called by Apple as “Retina Display” with a resolution of 960×640 pixels as compared to the previous version of iPhone which had only 480×320 pixels resolution. It has also got front-facing camera that can be used for video calling named by Apple as “Face time”, the good thing about it is that it has got two camera’s which can be swapped while on-the-call.

The iPhone 4 has got a faster A4 processor which is used by its new counterpart iPad. It has also got two microphones which has the feature of noise cancellation and a 5 Mega Pixel camera with HD recording and also includes video editing software built-in into the phone. As far as the connectivity is concerned it has got 802.11n Wi-Fi connectivity coupled with a quad-band HSPA with 7.2 Mbps and 5.8  Mbps download and upload link.

iPhone uses for the first time the new OS called IOS (former name Apple OS) which is being used on both iPhone and iPad.

iPhone will also feature a  iBooks e-reader app which was initially developed for iPad.

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Today is the day when way back in 1984, the first major personal computer was released which went onto become the first most successful PC featuring a mouse and user graphical interface. It has been a great era of one on the best innovations in the tech industry featuring from a Apple Macintosh to the World’s thinnest Laptop called Mac Book Air. You can watch the commercial launch video of Apple Macintosh way back in 1984 on Youtube.


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Now the comparison, a bulky Mac with a configuration of a 9in screen in an upright case, 128k of RAM, internal floppy drive that came with keyboard and single-button mouse build by the legandary computer maker Jef Raskin.

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And then the latest Mac Book Air with a configuration of.

• 13.3-inch LED display (1280 x 800)
• Intel Core 2 Duo 1.6GHz – 4MB of L2 Cache
• Intel GMA X3100
• 2GB DDR II 667MHz RAM
• 80GB (4,200-rpm) with Sudden Motion Sensor
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
• AirPort Extreme (802.11a/b/g/n)
• Audio out
• USB 2.0 (High Powered)
• Micro-DVI
• in-box micro-DVI to DVI adapter
• in-box micro-DVI to VGA adapter

(Now that’s what you call as innovation !!)

It was Apple Macintosh that brought in affordable PC’s at that time which made it much more appealing for the enterprise consumers.

So go down the memory lane and enjoy the tour of “Apple 25 Years in the making” gallery (Coming soon..)

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Apple CEO, Steve Jobs did not attend the Macworld conference this year due to his detoriating health problems over the past few years. This year at Macworld 2009 for the first time address was given by Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice-president for worldwide product marketing in the 12 year history of Macworld, further raising the speculation about  Job’s health.

Previously in 2003 Job’s was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer followed by an operation in the succeding year 2004 which was thought to be successful but wasn’t as it was visible in the keynotes he gave. He looked very thin and bony that lead to brief appearence of him at the keynotes. In recent keynotes Apple have tried to push the top executives into the limelight that include Mr Schiller, Timothy D. Cook, Apple’s chief operating officer – the man behindthe new range of laptops and Jonathan Ive, the man behind the award-winning design of the iPod, who is senior vice-president for design as well to make sure that the company is not dpendant on any one person.

So, who will be the next responsible person to take over the daily activities of the company in the coming months? Leave your comments about it.

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