Apple

Apple’s spot-the-shopper app

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Brian X. Chen: A store employee, Diego Aguirre, demonstrated an internal application running on iPod Touches that, for the last few weeks, has had the ability to show the in-store location of a shopper who has come to pick up … Continued

∞ Apple posts Black Friday deals

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Apple has posted Black Friday shopping specials on its US online store Web page, available only on November 25, 2011. The company has discounted MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and iMac systems by $101, with savings also available on iPod nano, … Continued

∞ Pictures, video from Apple's Grand Central store

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The Loop reader Mike DeFrancesco took a couple of pictures and iPhone video from Apple’s Grand Central store earlier today. Rumors had the story opening sometime this week, but that seems unlikely at this point.

∞ Letters to Steve: Inside the E-mail Inbox of Apple's Steve Jobs

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Mark Milian, a technology writer for CNN, has reviewed more than a hundred of these e-mails, compiled from those posted by fans to blogs and online message boards. Some never-before-published e-mails from Jobs were shared exclusively for this book. As a whole, these correspondences provide a behind-the-scenes and inside-the-mind account of Jobs’ final and most triumphant years.

This is a Kindle Edition book.

∞ Building the Apple Stores

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Former Apple vice president Ron Johnson writing for the Harvard Business Review: People come to the Apple Store for the experience — and they’re willing to pay a premium for that. There are lots of components to that experience, but … Continued

∞ Apple names Arthur D. Levinson Chairman of the Board

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Apple on Tuesday named Arthur D. Levinson as the Chairman of the Board.

Levinson has been a co-lead director of Apple’s board since 2005, has served on all three board committees— audit and finance, nominating and corporate governance, and compensation, according to Apple. Levinson will continue to serve on the audit committee, the company said.

∞ Steve Jobs nominated for Time's Person of the Year

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Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs was nominated by “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams to be Time magazine’s Person of the Year. If selected it would be the first time the distinction would be awarded to a person posthumously.

Make it so.

∞ Greenpeace ranks Apple fourth

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Matt Brian:

Greenpeace’s Guide to Greener Electronics, now in its 17th year, ranks the world’s top 15 technology companies on their green policies and practices, on how products and processes impact the climate. Apple climbed five places to rank fourth, behind HP, Dell and Nokia, with the all four of the companies improving their green impact over the year to march up the charts.

Don’t get me wrong, I think this is great, but with all of the information that Apple makes available about its environmental efforts, it seems a bit odd that they would only rank fourth. It’s like Greenpeace is the Consumer Reports for the environment.

∞ Jobs advised Zuckerberg about Facebook

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Brian Womack:

“I had a lot of questions for him,” Zuckerberg said. The topics included, “how to build a team around you that’s focused on building as high quality and good things as you are.”

If there’s one person you’d like to answer your questions, it would have to be Steve Jobs.

∞ Apple execs land big bonuses

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Apple’s executives landed stock bonuses worth about $60 million each – assuming they stick around through the end of 2016.

∞ CBS turns down Apple TV streaming

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Ryan Lawler at GigaOM: Apple had long been rumored to be working on a subscription streaming service that would aggregate content from multiple TV networks and compete against more traditional cable and satellite services. That product ended up never coming … Continued

∞ Steve Jobs posthumous backlash was fast

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New York Times: It wasn’t just Gawker. The waters quickly muddied after the first wave of obituaries passed. Thanks to Facebook and Twitter, anyone with a beef against Mr. Jobs or Apple found a platform to sound off about an … Continued

∞ Brits uphold Apple firing employee after posting on Facebook

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Josh Ong for AppleInsider:

A British Employment Tribunal has upheld Apple’s decision to dismiss a retail store employee who violated company policy by posting derogatory comments about his employer on the Facebook social networking site.

You can’t break the rules and then complain the rules are unfair. Well, you can, but…

∞ Futuristic concept videos

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John Gruber responding to criticism about how Microsoft wasted time publishing concept videos: Putting this “Future Visions” video in public squanders attention that Microsoft could otherwise have focused on its current and imminent new products — like Windows Phone. Take … Continued

∞ Global search for Apple TV

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Wouldn’t it just be far more convenient if there was a global search, that when used, returned a result that said: Apocalypse Now is available on both iTunes and your Netflix account, there are also 43 results on YouTube. Perhaps it even states whether buying from iTunes would be a higher resolution or not, but let’s not get greedy here.Wouldn’t that be a far better user experience, and potentially more lucrative for Apple?

Yes, Yes, YES!

∞ Tim Cook making Apple his own

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WSJ:

But the low-key Mr. Cook has already put his operational mark on Apple in ways that suggest the company won’t be entirely the same as under its intense and tempestuous co-founder.

Things had to change. Tim is not Steve and he won’t manage the same — and he shouldn’t.

∞ Yoko Ono to introduce Steve Jobs tribute at MTV Music Awards

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Billboard:

“Like John Lennon, the man I love deeply, Steve Jobs was a dreamer who changed the world,” Ono is expected to say during the online awards ceremony that begins Oct. 31 at 8:30 p.m. PT at www.omusicawards.com. “But of course when we lose a genius of that caliber, they are never really gone. They live on all around us, through our memories, their words, and their work. Their spirit grows in us forever to the end of the days.”