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Steve Jobs

Former advisor to Steve Jobs says new Apple CEO is exactly what’s needed: an engineer from the inside

Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO, handing the reins to hardware engineering chief John Ternus. A Seattle tech vet and former advisor to Steve Jobs says the choice signals a return to the company’s product roots at a critical moment. Read More

On Apple’s 50th, recalling the time a Microsoft engineer drove Steve Jobs so crazy he invented the iPad

David Pogue’s new book “Apple: The First 50 Years” is packed with stories about the rivalry between Apple and Microsoft. One stands out: the time a Microsoft engineer drove Steve Jobs so crazy at a birthday party that he went home and invented the iPad. Read More

Podcast

Microsoft’s private OpenAI emails, Satya’s new AI catchphrase, and the rise of physical AI startups

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Newly unsealed court documents reveal the behind-the-scenes history of Microsoft and OpenAI, including a surprise: Amazon Web Services was the Silicon Valley AI lab’s original partner. We tell the story behind the story, explaining how it came to light. Read More

Satya Nadella’s new metaphor for the AI Age: We are becoming ‘managers of infinite minds’

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella riffed on some famous lines from tech leaders past this week in an appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and offered up his own trippy candidate to join the canon of computing metaphors.  Read More

Oregon farm where Steve Jobs picked apples and gained inspiration hits market for $5M

Before there was Apple, there were apples. A 387-acre property in McMinnville, Ore., that was once home to Steve Jobs… Read More

Key artifacts from Microsoft and Apple history to be sold by Christie’s from Paul Allen’s collection

Christie’s announced the items that will be auctioned in three sales from the Paul G. Allen Collection, including historic computers… Read More

Podcast

Is Elon Musk calculated or crazed? Walter Isaacson discusses his new book on the GeekWire Podcast

You might not know it from his recent comments, but there was a time in the late-1990s when Elon Musk… Read More

The decade when tech turned dark: Learning from the mistakes of the past 10 years

The arrival of 2020 is a chance to look back on the past decade and what it has meant for… Read More

Apple ‘was on a path to die,’ but Bill Gates credits Steve Jobs’ ability to make magic by ‘casting spells’

Bill Gates may have relied on his own demanding work ethic to turn Microsoft into the software powerhouse that it… Read More

The best Apple CEO ever? New book explains why Tim Cook deserves more credit for Apple’s success

Silicon Valley is filled with plenty of characters and superstar CEOs. But Apple CEO Tim Cook is easily one of… Read More

Steve Jobs in opera

Seattle Opera goes beyond Apple to get to the core of Steve Jobs’ complex character

You shouldn’t expect to glean startup tips from “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs,” the one-act opera staged by the Seattle… Read More

Turning Steve Jobs’ life into opera: Balancing man, myth and the technology that changed everything

It was not the project that Mark Campbell had been dreaming about. “It was actually Mason Bates, the composer, who… Read More

Calendar Picks: Seattle Opera and GeekWire present panel on the ‘flawed brilliance’ of Steve Jobs

Did you know Seattle Opera is getting ready to put on a show all about the late Apple co-founder Steve… Read More

Steve Jobs application

Fascinating Jobs application: Apple co-founder listed ‘tech, design’ as skills in 1973 hunt for work

Three years before he co-founded Apple, Steve Jobs filled out a job application at Reed College in Portland in which… Read More

"The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs."

Seattle opera staging the story of Apple’s iconic leader with ‘The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs’

Talk about Apple Music. The Seattle Opera is bringing a production about the iconic leader of the tech company to… Read More

Apple I Steve Jobs

‘Most important computer in history’: Steve Jobs machine part of Apple exhibit at Paul Allen museum

The Living Computers: Museum + Labs in Seattle is home to some of the most noteworthy machines ever created. But… Read More

Woz in Seattle: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on automation, Steve Jobs, and Dancing with the Stars

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak – who is often credited with inventing the modern personal computer – thinks it will probably be “a… Read More

Watch drone footage of Apple’s nearly-complete ‘spaceship’ campus before the grand opening in April

Apple’s massive new campus, which Steve Jobs once joked is “a little like a spaceship” is almost ready to take… Read More

Apple’s spaceship has landed: 175-acre ‘Apple Park’ opens in April with 1,000-seat ‘Steve Jobs Theater’

We’ve been having fun tracking the progress of Apple’s new Cupertino, Calif., campus through a series of drone videos by… Read More

Apple frustrated that it still can’t do for TV what it did for music

“I finally cracked it,” Apple cofounder Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson. Jobs was referring to his company’s efforts… Read More

Microsoft donates $500k to Portland college where Steve Jobs was a dropout

Microsoft has made a significant contribution aimed at jumpstarting a computer science program at Reed College in Portland, Ore. Students… Read More

Hollywood’s big Steve Jobs movie is a bomb

Is everyone just sick and tired of hearing about Steve Jobs? Perhaps. Jobs has been one of the most covered… Read More

‘Steve Jobs’ movie review: An exaggerated-yet-impressive depiction of the Apple legend

Since his passing, there have been three attempts to capture the epic and complicated life of Steve Jobs in a… Read More

The big Hollywood movie ‘Steve Jobs’ is out today, and the critics are loving it

It seems we get a new take on Steve Jobs every few months, but this latest one might be the… Read More

New trailer for ‘Steve Jobs’ movie stops being polite and starts getting real

While the first trailer for the big Hollywood Steve Jobs film focused on a lot of Apple’s high notes, this… Read More

Apple CEO Tim Cook chats with Stephen Colbert about coming out, and why he hates the new Steve Jobs movies

Apple CEO Tim Cook was the latest big-name techie to drop by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night,… Read More

Laurene Powell Jobs giving $50M to rethink high schools and drive innovation

That Seattle teachers strike has reached a tentative end with school set to open Thursday, but the bigger problem of… Read More

Woz says Steve Jobs left Apple on his own, wasn’t pushed out in mid-80s

The myths and realities of Apple continue to unfold, and this latest piece of info from Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak… Read More

GeekWire at the Movies: Our review of the new documentary, ‘Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine’

Several members of the GeekWire team watched, with high hopes, the new Alex Gibney documentary, Steve Jobs: The Man in… Read More

From ‘visionary’ to ‘a-hole,’ that Steve Jobs’ doc ‘The Man in the Machine’ is getting mixed reviews

That anticipated Alex Gibney documentary about Apple’s iconic co-founder Steve Jobs is out today, and let’s just say the reviews… Read More

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