41 - Steve Jobs predicted Obama would be a one-term president

By Rachel Rose Hartman | The Ticket – Fri, Oct 21, 2011

Jobs (Jeff Chiu/AP)

Steve Jobs, known for his aggressive and sometimes prickly personality, didn't hold back when he met President Obama in 2010:

The Apple CEO warned Obama he wasn't going to win re-election.
"You're headed for a one-term presidency," Jobs said during a meeting with the president that took place a year prior to Jobs' death related to pancreatic cancer, according to his upcoming biography as reported by the Huffington Post.
 

Walter Isaacson, who wrote the forthcoming Jobs bio, reportedly reveals that Jobs argued that Obama was jeopardizing his re-election prospects because of what Jobs took to be a pervasive anti-business climate in his administration. Jobs cited excessive federal regulations and operating costs for businesses as harmful legacies of the Obama White House.
 

Also, Jobs nearly missed the meeting in the first place.
 

From the Huffington Post:
 

Though his wife told him that Obama "was really psyched to meet with you," Jobs insisted on the personal invitation, and the standoff lasted for five days. When he finally relented and they met at the Westin San Francisco Airport, Jobs was characteristically blunt. He seemed to have transformed from a liberal into a conservative.
 

After laying into the White House's purported anti-business outlook, Jobs offered to help Obama repair the rift  by arranging meeting between the president and a group of CEOs. When the guest list began to grow, Jobs reportedly resolved to back out of the gathering. 

Instead, he attended,  though he poo-pooed the fancy menu. "But he was overruled by the White House, which cited the president's fondness for cream pie," Huffington Post writes.
 

Jobs also offered to to help create political ads for the president in 2012. Jobs had scotched a similar effort to craft Obama ads in 2008, when Isaacson claims that Jobs was unhappy that Obama strategist David Axelrod showed insufficient deference to the Apple honcho.
This and other political news is just the latest information to leak from the hotly anticipated book.
 

Another revelation that Isaacson has teed up for a "60 Minutes" interview featuring the biography this Sunday is that Jobs wished he had chosen sooner to undergo cancer surgery.

40 - Steve Jobs an American Visionary with Arab Roots

10/7/2011 - Social - Article Ref: NA1110-4890
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By: Shirin Sadeghi
New America Media

 Abdul Fattah Jandali, a young Syrian Muslim immigrant in Wisconsin, never met his son Steve Jobs. When a baby was born to the 23-year-old Jandali — now known as John — and his 23-year-old German-American girlfriend, Joanne Schieble, in 1955, there was no chance he’d be able to grow up with his biological parents.
 
Joanne, who belonged to a white, conservative Christian family could not convince her parents to marry an Arab, a Muslim, according to Jandali, who called her father "a tyrant" in a New York Post interview in August 2011. In fact, according to Jandali, she secreted off from Wisconsin to liberal San Francisco to sort out the birth and adoption without letting either him or her parents know.
And so it was that a nameless Arab American baby was adopted by an Armenian American family. Clara Hagopian and her husband Paul Jobs had been married around seven years and had not been able to conceive. The little bundle that would be Steve, was very much wanted in the Jobs household. 

Steve Paul Jobs, as they named him, grew up without ever knowing his biological father. It seems he had no interest in knowing him later in life, either. When, in August 2011, the London tabloid The Sun, contacted Jandali, he publicly reached out to Steve saying, "I live in hope that before it is too late he will reach out to me. Even to have just one coffee with him just once would make me a very happy man."


But Steve never replied. Less than two months later, he has passed away. 

Jandali says it was his "Syrian pride" that kept him from reaching out to his famous son. In a September 2011 interview with the Reno Gazette — Reno, Nevada being the city the 80-year-old Jandali lives and where, having never retired, he is the Vice President of a casino. "The Syrian pride in me does not want him ever to think I am after his fortune. I am not. I have my own money. What I don’t have is my son…and that saddens me."

One wonders what Jobs knew of his background.
 
His biological father was no ordinary Syrian. According to an interview he gave to the Al Hayat newspaper in February 2011, he was born in French-mandated Syria in 1931 in the town of Homs to a "self-made millionaire" father with no university education who owned "several entire villages" and a homemaker, traditional mother. He was one of five children Ð the only son of a family with 4 daughters. 

He left Syria at 18 to study at the American University in Beirut, where he was "a pan-Arab activist", a "supporter of Arab unity and Arab independence" who organized with some of the most famous activists of his time. After university, he moved to the United States, and the rest is history, though he regrets leaving his homeland.
"If I had the chance to go back in time, I wouldn’t leave Syria or Lebanon at all. I would stay in my home country my whole life. I don’t say that out of emotion but out of common sense," he told Al Hayat. "Of course I miss the social life and wonderful food [in Syria], but the most important thing is the outstanding cultural attributes which in general you don’t find in the West," says the non-practicing Muslim, who nonetheless "believe[s] in Islam in doctrine and culture."
 
His nostalgia aside, millions worldwide would no doubt disagree with Jandali. Surely a Steve Jobs of Apple Computers could only have been possible in America.
 
The estrangement of a father and son is made even more tragic by the fact that not only did each know of the other, but they shared more than a father-son biological connection. Jandali and Schieble eventually did marry — just ten months after she gave their baby boy away to adoption, and just a few months after Joanne’s father died. And they had another child — a daughter with whom Steve eventually had a relationship. Mona Jandali — now Simpson — is a world renowned author who was, in her own words, "very close" to her brother Steve once they established a relationship as adults.
According to Jandali, he had no idea until just a few years ago that the baby his then-girlfriend secretly gave birth to in San Francisco was the man the world knew as Steve Jobs. But Steve must have known for decades, through his relationship with Mona. 

In the August New York Post interview, Jandali tried to let his son know that he didn’t know of Joanne’s San Francisco plans. That he was saddened when he learned of it. "I honestly do not know to this day if Steve is aware of the fact that had it been my choice, I would have loved to have kept him," he said.
 
And unless Jobs’s upcoming November authorized biography addresses the issue, Jandali may never know. Instead, with news of Jobs’s death, Jandali has refused any further interviews about his long lost son and will always wonder what could have been. In that, he will not be alone.

Follow Shirin Sadeghi on Twitter: @ShirinSadeghi

Source: New America Media

39 - iConic Jobs - The Hindu

August 27, 2011

Steve Jobs could connect the dots and how. Apple Computer, which he co-founded with Steve Wozniak in 1976, has been a world-beating success under his visionary leadership. It soared from its start as a garage venture into a technology giant with a market valuation of $350 billion, and an unmatched reputation for inventing disruptively brilliant gadgets. 

Apple's orchard has been sprouting wonderful things starting with the Macintosh computers and going on to the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad, each testifying to the value of fine minimalist design and excellence in performance. What makes the legacy of Mr. Jobs remarkable in the fast-changing world of consumer electronics is his ability to come back to the core of innovation after fighting tough battles, and set the bar higher. 

Neither a 12-year absence after his 1985 exit due to an internal power struggle nor serious health setbacks seemed to curb his spirit. Now that he is stepping down as CEO, the question naturally arises — can Apple maintain its pre-eminence without the boss at the helm? The answer would seem to lie in the leader's own philosophy of life and work.

Mr. Jobs, who was raised by working class parents, did not graduate from college. But he continued to learn. He listened to intuition. He is listed as either primary inventor or co-inventor in more than 230 awarded patents or patent applications. Talent must be allowed to speak and experiment with ideas, even if every move is not bound for immediate commercial success. Mr. Jobs has a timeless message for everyone — the only way to do great work is to love what one does. 

A second powerful message from the 56-year old tech wizard is to learn from failure. Mr. Jobs is on record that his departure from Apple in the mid-1980s was one of the best things that happened to him — the heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of becoming a beginner once more. 

He proved himself all over again before returning to the company. Perhaps even more extraordinary is his triumph over life-threatening health challenges. Yet, as events show, indomitable spirit must also defer to the constraints of physical ability. 

Today, legions of fans look differently at music, video, and the web with each wave of innovation at Apple. The iPad tablet computer is the latest. They will look for the same game-changing impact in future products, an expectation that incoming CEO Tim Cook will have to meet. In a competitive future, Apple will have put its trust in itself. 

As Mr. Jobs told Stanford University graduates in a 2005 commencement address: “You have to trust in something. Your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.” A fine thought from someone who has lived it.

COMMENTS:
Wonderful achievements in individuals emerge from the life histories of Americans.Thanks to the Freedom as practiced there.It was T Thomas, the then Chairman of Hindusthan Lever limited, in one the company's Annual Report,gave an account of his rise to the top job, from a scratch.Landing in then Bombay only equipped with a Chemical Engineering degree in his pocket,with determination,hard work and reasonable good luck he could scale the heights of Pyramid at HLL.Thus the Freedom available to the citizens to enrich themselves in the field of their choice is something, we too, can be proud of.LET US HOPE,the effective control of Leakages of Tax Payer's money, in the proposed LOK PAL Bill, its implementation, should bring up several SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEUR, to take India to greater heights.
from:  K P Natarajan
 

Posted on: Aug 27, 2011 at 06:55 IST
A genius retires. His ideas and inventions have changed our world, even convictions and values are changing. One who is using a MacBookAir or an iPhone gets in touch with Apple´s own philosophy. Apple enjoys high reputation for inventing disruptively brilliant gadgets. Today, legions of fans look differently at music, video, and the web with each wave of innovation at Apple. Without Steve Jobs no one knows if the success of Apple will continue.
Though he did not graduate from college, he is listed as either primary inventor or co-inventor in more than 230 awarded patents or patent applications. Up to now Apple gadgets have been used and are used by the Middle and Upper class there should be a change that more segments of society can afford Apple products. And the first step has been already taken, Apple will release a cheaper iPhone4 within weeks. Steve Jobs never stopped learning and he listened to intuition. An outstanding personality retires.
from:  Kurt Waschnig Oldenburg Germany
Posted on: Aug 27, 2011 at 10:36 IST
 

I am very pleased to read this tribute. The Hindu very rarely praises an entrepreneur/businessman! I am glad you have filtered out two messages from his life: love your work, and learn from failure. Even a terrorist would subscribe to those messages. Therefore, I would add a few more messages. Focus on building and not tearing down. Elevate your game and don't get dragged down by the competition. Do not suffer from competitive myopia. Focus on innovating. Be bold, and do not be risk averse. Jobs story is not complete without his home market, the USA. Only in the USA his innovations took root. The USA must be applauded for allowing capitalists to flourish, and that is the lesson public policy makers and opinion writers at The Hindu should take note. On a biographical note, please review Jobs commencement speech gave at Stanford a few years back. In that speech, he mentions how in his youth he walked 6 or 7 miles to get a free vegetarian meal at a ISKCON Hare Krishna temple!
from:  Subra Balakrishnan
Posted on: Aug 27, 2011 at 14:12 IST
 

Apple is a phenomenon,it brought about massive changes in modern consumer electronics with its elegant,simple,innovative and smart designs/technology.Apple products are a roaring success in the industrialized developed world ,but it has some catching up to do in developing countries like India.Countries like India require an 'Apple' of there own ,which reaches out to the people of this country.The youth and entrepreneurs of this nation should strive to come up with such innovations that would have the effect that companies like Apple,Facebook,Google had on this world. The founders of these companies weren't from well to do families, these are men of great strength, character and resolve. What we need is an Indian Apple for the Global appetite.
from:  Narendra
Posted on: Aug 27, 2011 at 15:26 IST
 

Steve Jobs and his Stanford's commencement speech are going to inspire generations to come! People will remember him for his professional as well as personal achievements. He said he has retired for he was not able to meet his own standards! A sign of a genius indeed!Why can't our politicians take a note of this? Many seem to have one leg in graveyard and another in the ministry!
from:  harsh raghava
Posted on: Aug 27, 2011 at 15:41 IST
 

The below question was asked to him in an interview and his response shows his greatness. The core message, of not accepting mediocrity and not giving up, applies to all of us and in all walks of life.
What was the design lesson of the iPod? "Look at the design of a lot of consumer product - they're really complicated surfaces. We tried to make something much more holistic and simple. When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can oftentimes arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Most people just don’t put in the time or energy to get there. We believe that customers are smart, and want objects which are well thought through."
from:  Subbu Padharthi
Posted on: Aug 27, 2011 at 18:53 IST
 

Its really astonishing that Steave Jobs was not even a graduate and he was founded the most innovative company in the world. And over that he has 250 patents on his name. Apple is the only company, I know of, which makes unconventional products. Compare any Apple product with other company product, from looks to technology, completely different.The new CEO should know that he has some VERY LARGE SHOES to fill.
from:  Abhishek Sharma
Posted on: Aug 27, 2011 at 20:52 IST
 

It was nice to read about Jobs. He is indeed an inspirational figure. However, I feel another gem in his crown of success is the rise of PIXAR, and should be mentioned here. It was the vision of Jobs and his collaboration with artists like John Lasseter that culminated into the creation of a new breed of CGI movies starting with the Toy Story in 1995. Though Pixar has been taken over by Walt Disney now, Steve Jobs will always be a remembered as a pioneer.
from:  Parth Kanungo
Posted on: Aug 27, 2011 at 23:07 IST
 

Great editorial but for one misquote, The editorial says that Steve jobs said that one should love their work but what he actually said is that everyone should find out what they love and then go for it. This is so true because excellence in any career comes from the passion within.
from:  Venkat
Posted on: Aug 28, 2011 at 09:40 IST
 

The most inspiring man of 21st century with all his guts of innovation and dare to love without fear and do all with his conscience. We all salute him.
from:  Charudatt Kumbhare
Posted on: Aug 28, 2011 at 09:55 IST
 

Where there is a will,there is a way.This 'will' is synonymous to charismatic qualities such as - concentration ,self discipline,a cool mind with an enthusiastic soul.With all these qualities , a man can conquer the world.We must also remember that most of us travel only half way on the path of life than we ought to have travelled.
from:  saurabh shubham
Posted on: Aug 28, 2011 at 11:35 IST
 

Steve jobs deserves every reverence that he has got from the Editor and many more like us.He had the wont of pulling it off every-time,he bettered himself time and again & it is quite evident how much it takes to achieve something.I still remember the last speech he delivered.It has a lot of lessons for everybody to learn.The resilience shown by him from the very early age and penchant to learn and move ahead is what has separated him from the rest.Can you believe a man on the verge of dying is going along just by thinking he has nothing to loose,how many can think like that?Whatever he has given to us deserves a lot of praise and acknowledgement.
from:  Sanjay
Posted on: Aug 28, 2011 at 12:10 IST
 

Thank you so much Mr. Editor. I must salute your inclination to include an inventor and an innovator of electronic devises, which had had changed the forceps of the human mind to new paradigms, that was not even possible to have been imagined in 1976 for your cherished editorial. The co-founder of the bitten-apple will never be forgotten so long the human race is alive. A given away child by parents, without tertiary education and selling Coca-Cola bottles and living on welfare food at Hare Krishna centers tells us of a story of how perseverance and persistence could raise the Man to a Superman. Steve Jobs has defeated the nihilist concept of Man and Superman told to us through Frederich Nietzsche and had proven beyond doubt the victory of the Nirvana as a transcending light through which the human mind can be guided to realize perfection and premonitions. The, I, he had invented has now become a We for all of us. I am so saddened yet amazed.
from:  Richard Kamalanathan
Posted on: Oct 6, 2011 at 16:28 IST
 

Steve jobs now finds a permanent place in history. He will be remembered for ever for his experiments in transforming the digital scene. He was a cancer patient and was embracing Death since 2004 . In 2005', he told the students of Stanford university, that the time before them was limited and that they should not waste it living someone else's life. He also asked them to ' stay hungry. Stay foolish' . He made full use of his life to make a real difference in the life of millions in this land. His death has created a vacuum to humanity.
from:  C.p.Chandra das
Posted on: Oct 6, 2011 at 19:12 IST
 

The brands that are built on everlasting cult of desire thrive the test of time. Few brands have such a following and Steve Jobs is the wonder guru who created that iconic brand. May his legacy endure and inspire many a followers to work with passion with an obsession to create that something everybody would aspire for.
from:  Saravanan Subramanium
Posted on: Oct 6, 2011 at 19:17 IST
 

No one else from the business world that I read of or knew in the past few decades have had a profound impact on both the business world and the society than Steve. To me, he is undoubtedly one among the greatest innovators and entrepreneurs the world ever witnessed. His Apple products like the iPod, iPhone and iPad are not only very user friendly and aesthetically designed, but also have upended the music, communication and media industries. Very few business leaders or innovators had done that before him. Thank you very much for everything you provided, Steve. May the world see many more great innovators like you. Rest In Peace.
from:  Manjunath Nallani
Posted on: Oct 6, 2011 at 19:50 IST
 

The foresight and innovative spirit that Steve Jobs epitomizes the what could be achieved when we break shackles of economic and technological convention. Steve's products succeeded as he often remarked because he could connect technology and liberal arts. Even the most useful devices would be rendered useless if it can't appeal to our senses. Steve Jobs was a portal a middle-man between ground breaking technological advances in electronics and IT industry, and the consumers.
from:  Hari
Posted on: Oct 6, 2011 at 21:46 IST
 

Steve Jobs was the campaigner for Proprietory software and vendor locked hardware. He used his creativity to strengthen the company than the community at large. I love his indomitable spirit but somehow I am not convinced of his attitudes towards open culture. To sum up in an example, take iPAD. It is totally locks the user. The idea of OC Tablets (in my view) should have been more freedom, but alas, Steve has locked the consumers. While I commend his efforts, I request the media to write analytical pieces, which may contain good and bad things.
from:  Beluru Sudarshana
Posted on: Oct 6, 2011 at 23:13 IST
 

Behind each great company, there is a great mission statement. Apple's mission is to bring the best personal computing experience to consumers through its innovative hardware, software and Internet offerings. This mission statement has been driving Apple for years, fueling the company's vision of what the future could look like, and then turning that vision into reality. Steven Paul Jobs was the most successful CEO in the world for the last 25 years realizing such a mission. He uniquely combined an artist's touch and an engineer's vision to build an extraordinary company....Apple Inc, one of the greatest World leaders in history of computing. What he told the graduating students may be Steve Jobs's best legacy. Here is one part we all should remember, "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living 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."
What a great man he was!
from:  Major AM Manohar
Posted on: Oct 7, 2011 at 04:47 IST
 

Goodbye Steve and thank you.
from:  Sumesh R Bhat
Posted on: Oct 7, 2011 at 09:23 IST
 

Steve Jobs life story should be read by every student/young and old,he should be a role model and the young generation needs to learn a lot from his experiences and the struggle he went through when he was thrown out of his own company and to come back with innovative products,only if we have people like him in all walks of life industry/schools/colleges/govt servants/politicians etc,India would be a better place to live. every one should read his Stanford university speech as an inspiration/motivation.
from:  dr g shivalingam
Posted on: Oct 7, 2011 at 11:17 IST
 

Steve, Steve, Steve.. The godfather of every modern computer, the architect of the technology that we see now. I've never been inspired so much by another person. Not only in the context of the geek or tech person but he is the best example to learn, 'How to live a life'.. He can never be replaced.. According to me, he lived he most meaningful life on this world. His innovations and products will continue living his life for ever..

One among your million fans..
Love you Steve.. Miss you.. RIP
from:  Guna seakar
Posted on: Oct 7, 2011 at 11:56 IST 

38 - A visionary passes - The Hindu

When Steve Jobs was asked in 1985 why people should make a heavy investment on a new computer built by Apple, he replied that if one had asked Alexander Graham Bell about the possible uses of a telephone, he would not have been able to say. Moreover, he envisioned a time when computers like the one he had made would be linked to a nationwide communications network. That uncanny understanding of the future course of technology, the intuition, vision, and courage necessary to build it marked the extraordinary life of Steve Jobs. 

When he died on Wednesday at the age of 56, he left the venture he co-founded in his parents' garage the most valuable technology company in the world. A restless diviner of the digital future, Jobs made things for people before they knew they needed it. The first Macintosh computer brought technologies such as the graphical user interface and the mouse to the mainstream, scoring a giant leap over text-based displays. The iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad were products of his belief that humans, as instinctive users of tools, would love them. These creations successfully disrupted the universe of gadgets and entertainment, creating new benchmarks for products.

A quarter century ago, at a time when the computer business was focussed on big corporations and mainframes, Jobs pursued a vision to take the productivity of the computer to the small businessperson and the home user. He used innovation and reliability as growth engines. He was the digital woodworker who never compromised on design, materials, or craftsmanship, in hardware and software. 

Early in his career, Jobs argued that creativity was an asset of the young. As people grew older, they got stuck in the patterns etched in their mind by their thoughts. Companies with many layers of middle management filtered out the passion for products. Jobs was the great exception — mercurial, driven, and eager to connect the dots of the future till the end. Unceremoniously thrown out of the company he co-founded, he returned to it enormously enriched with creative ideas. Despite suffering from a rare form of pancreatic cancer diagnosed soon after he unveiled the iTunes music store, he persevered with the development of new products such as the iPhone. 

In his famous commencement address at Stanford University in 2005, he reflected on the inevitability of mortality: “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living somebody else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking ... And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” This summed up the life and work of a college dropout who, by connecting the dots and having the courage to follow his heart and intuition, changed the world.

37 - Steve Jobs: The monk who left India to make i-Products - Times of India

The monk who left India to make i-Products

PTI PTI Oct 6, 2011, 02.46PM IST

NEW DELHI: "Three apples have changed the world. One seduced Eve, second awakened Newton, the third one was in the hands of Jobs."

This was one of the most widely circulated messages doing the rounds of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook and elsewhere on internet after the untimely demise of Steve Jobs, the visionary entrepreneur and the force behind the US-based global technology giant Apple.

Much before embarking on the path of giving the world iconic products like Mac computers, iPod music players, iPhone mobile phones and iPad tablet PCs, this cult figure of the world of technology came to India in early 70s in search of enlightenment or 'nirvana' and went back unsatisfied.

He found India far poorer than he had imagined at that time and, ironically, years later in mid-2000s, when he thought of setting up a facility for Apple's Mac computers, India appeared to be much less cost-effective to do business.

But, it was his unsatisfactory India visit of early 70s that could have been one of the major reasons for Jobs' focus on the world of technology and eventually the setting up of the company called Apple.

His biography, titled 'The Little Kingdom -- The Private Story of Apple Computer' quotes Jobs as saying that "It was one of the first times that I started to realise that maybe Thomas Edison did a lot more to improve the world than Karl Marx and Neem Kairolie Baba put together."

Neem Karori Baba was the guru that Jobs, then 18, visited in India along with his college friend Dan Kottke. The American duo had come to India after they dropped out of college and Kottke eventually joined Jobs as the first employee of Apple.

"The hot, uncomfortable summer made Jobs question many of the illusions he had nursed about India. He found India far poorer than he had imagined and was struck by the incongruity between the country's condition and its airs of holiness," author Michael Moritz wrote in Jobs' biography.

The book quoted Jobs as saying: "We weren't going to find a place where we could go for a month to be enlightened" and said that by the time he returned to California "he was thinner, thanks to a bout of dysentery, had closely cropped hair, and was dressed in an Indian attire..."

Years later in 2006, there were talks about Apple mulling over a 3,000-strong workforce centre in Bangalore to support its Mac and other products and it was said that the company even hired an initial team of 30 people. But, the plans did not fructify and reports said that the company did not find India as cost-effective as it had thought it to be.

Ironically, Jobs died on a day when Indian government unveiled its own answer to iPad, with a price tag much lower than that of the iconic brand, in the form of Aakash, the world's cheapest tablet PC.

The market gets swarmed with a number of rival products whenever Apple launches a new one and this has been the case of digital music player iPod, touch-screen mobile device iPhone and touch-screen tablet PC iPad.

Invariably, the rival products are priced much cheaper than Apple's and in places like India a comparatively costlier price tag has always come in the way of their market-leading positions.

The cost factor notwithstanding, the products that Jobs brought to this world achieved unmatched fashion value and cult status across the world, including in India.

Many argue that Jobs and Apple lost out to almost all his peers in the global technology space, including the likes of Microsoft, IBM, HP and Dell by not availing of the 'India advantage' in their businesses, the products that Jobs gave the world hold much higher iconic value that anything else in the technology space, India included.

This iconic status reverberated in the messages pouring in from people of all walks of the life here in India, mourning his death as the loss of one of the greatest icons of the modern times.

From Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to industrialist Ratan Tata and BJP leader Sushma Swaraj to filmaker Karan Johar -- eminent personalities from different fields are mourning the death of Jobs.

Reacting to the death of Jobs, who quit as Apple CEO in late August due to his ill health, US President Barack Obama went on to say that "there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

36 - Steve Jobs - Reuters | Oct. 05, 2011

Reuters | Oct. 05, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO: Apple Inc co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, counted among the greatest American CEOs of his generation, died on Wednesday at the age of 56, after a years-long and highly public battle with cancer and other health issues.

Jobs' death was announced by Apple in a statement late on Wednesday. The Apple.com homepage featured a black-and-white picture of him with the words "Steve Jobs, 1955-2011."

The Silicon Valley icon who gave the world the iPod and the iPhone had resigned as CEO of the world's largest technology corporation in August, handing the reins to current chief executive Tim Cook.

A survivor of a rare form of pancreatic cancer, he was deemed the heart and soul of a company that rivals Exxon Mobil as the most valuable in America.

"Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve," Apple said in a statement announcing Jobs' passing.

"His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts."

Job's health had been a controversial topic for years. His battle with cancer had been a deep concern to Apple fans, investors and the company's board alike. In past years, even board members have confided to friends their concern that Jobs, in his quest for privacy, wasn't being forthcoming enough with directors about the true condition of his health.

Now, despite investor confidence in Cook, who has stood in for his boss during three leaves of absence, there remain concerns about whether the company would stay a creative force to be reckoned with beyond the next year or so without its founder and visionary at the helm.

The news triggered an immediate outpouring of sympathy. Among others, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he will miss Jobs "immensely".

A college dropout, Buddhist and son of adoptive parents, Jobs started Apple Computer with friend Steve Wozniak in the late 1970s. The company soon introduced the Apple 1 computer.

But it was the Apple II that became a huge success and gave Apple its position as a critical player in the then-nascent PC industry, culminating in a 1980 IPO that made Jobs a multimillionaire.

Despite the subsequent success of the Mac, Jobs' relationship with top management and the board soured. The company removed most of his powers and then in 1985 he was fired.

35 - A Tribute to Steve Jobs : The Apple Co-founder

Wednesday, October 5, 2011
A Tribute to Steve Jobs : The Apple Co-founder

Steve Jobs :: 1955-2011
PTI | Oct. 05, 2011

Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO who invented and masterfully marketed ever-sleeker gadgets that transformed everyday technology, from the personal computer to the iPod and iPhone, has died.

He was 56. Apple announced his death without giving a specific cause.

“We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today,” the company said in a brief statement.

“Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.”

Mr. Jobs had battled cancer in 2004 and underwent a liver transplant in 2009 after taking a leave of absence for unspecified health problems. He took another leave of absence in January “his third since his health problems began” and officially resigned in August.

Mr. Jobs started Apple with a high school friend in a Silicon Valley garage in 1976, was forced out a decade later and returned in 1997 to rescue the company. During his second stint, it grew into the most valuable technology company in the world.

Cultivating Apple’s countercultural sensibility and a minimalist design ethic, Mr. Jobs rolled out one sensational product after another, even in the face of the late-2000s recession and his own failing health.

He helped change computers from a geeky hobbyist’s obsession to a necessity of modern life at work and home, and in the process he upended not just personal technology but the cell phone and music industries. For transformation of American industry, he has few rivals.

Perhaps most influentially, Mr. Jobs in 2001 launched the iPod, which offered “1,000 songs in your pocket.” Over the next 10 years, its white earphones and thumb-dial control seemed to become more ubiquitous than the wristwatch.

In 2007 came the touch-screen iPhone, joined a year later by Apple’s App Store, where developers could sell iPhone “apps” which made the phone a device not just for making calls but also for managing money, editing photos, playing games and social networking.

And in 2010, Mr. Jobs introduced the iPad, a tablet-sized, all-touch computer that took off even though market analysts said no one really needed one.

By 2011, Apple had become the second-largest company of any kind in the United States by market value. In August, it briefly surpassed Exxon Mobil as the most valuable company.

Under Mr. Jobs, the company cloaked itself in secrecy to build frenzied anticipation for each of its new products.

Mr. Jobs himself had a wizardly sense of what his customers wanted, and where demand didn’t exist, he leveraged a cult-like following to create it.

When he spoke at Apple presentations, almost always in faded blue jeans, sneakers and a black mock turtleneck, legions of Apple acolytes listened to every word.

He often boasted about Apple successes, then coyly added a coda “One more thing” before introducing its latest ambitious idea.

In later years, Apple investors also watched these appearances for clues about his health. Jobs revealed in 2004 that he had been diagnosed with a very rare form of pancreatic cancer -- an islet cell neuroendocrine tumour. He underwent surgery and said he had been cured.

In 2009, following weight loss he initially attributed to a hormonal imbalance, he abruptly took a six-month leave.

During that time, he received a liver transplant that became public two months after it was performed.

He went on another medical leave in January 2011, this time for an unspecified duration. He never went back and resigned as CEO in August, though he stayed on as chairman.

Consistent with his penchant for secrecy, he didn’t reference his illness in his resignation letter.

Steven Paul Jobs was born February 24, 1955, in San Francisco to Joanne Simpson, then an unmarried graduate student, and Abdulfattah Jandali, a student from Syria.

Simpson gave Mr. Jobs up for adoption, though she married Jandali and a few years later had a second child with him, Mona Simpson, who became a novelist.

Steven was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs of Los Altos, California, a working-class couple who nurtured his early interest in electronics. He saw his first computer terminal at NASA’s Ames Research Centre when he was around 11 and landed a summer job at Hewlett-Packard before he had finished high school.

34 - Apple Inc co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs dies at the age of 56 - Economic Times

Reuters Oct 6, 2011, 06.08am IST

SAN FRANCISCO: Apple Inc co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, counted among the greatest American CEOs of his generation, died on Wednesday at the age of 56, after a years-long and highly public battle with cancer and other health issues

Apple Inc co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs

dies at the age of 56

Jobs' death was announced by Apple in a statement late on Wednesday. The Apple.com homepage featured a black-and-white picture of him with the words "Steve Jobs, 1955-2011."

The Silicon Valley icon who gave the world the iPod and the iPhone had resigned as CEO of the world's largest technology corporation in August, handing the reins to current chief executive Tim Cook.

A survivor of a rare form of pancreatic cancer, he was deemed the heart and soul of a company that rivals Exxon Mobil as the most valuable in America.

"Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve," Apple said in a statement announcing Jobs' passing.

"His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts."

Job's health had been a controversial topic for years. His battle with cancer had been a deep concern to Apple fans, investors and the company's board alike. In past years, even board members have confided to friends their concern that Jobs, in his quest for privacy, wasn't being forthcoming enough with directors about the true condition of his health.

Now, despite investor confidence in Cook, who has stood in for his boss during three leaves of absence, there remain concerns about whether the company would stay a creative force to be reckoned with beyond the next year or so without its founder and visionary at the helm.

The news triggered an immediate outpouring of sympathy. Among others, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he will miss Jobs "immensely".

APPLE, NEXT, IPHONE

A college dropout, Buddhist and son of adoptive parents, Jobs started Apple Computer with friend Steve Wozniak in the late 1970s. The company soon introduced the Apple 1 computer.

But it was the Apple II that became a huge success and gave Apple its position as a critical player in the then-nascent PC industry, culminating in a 1980 IPO that made Jobs a multimillionaire.

Despite the subsequent success of the Mac, Jobs' relationship with top management and the board soured. The company removed most of his powers and then in 1985 he was fired.

Apple's fortunes waned after that. However, its purchase of NeXT -- the computer company Jobs founded after leaving Apple -- in 1997 brought him back into the fold. Later that year, he became interim CEO and in 2000, the company dropped "interim" from his title.

Along the way Jobs also had managed to revolutionize computer animation with his other company, Pixar, but it was the iPhone in 2007 that capped his legacy in the annals of modern technology history.

Two years before the gadget that forever transformed the way people around the world access and use the Internet, Jobs talked about how a sense of his mortality was a major driver behind that vision.

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life," Jobs said during a Stanford commencement ceremony in 2005.

"Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure -- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."

33 - Digital diviner who made computing personal - The Hindu

CHENNAI, October 6, 2011

G. ANANTHAKRISHNAN

Flowers and notes are displayed in tribute to Steve Jobs 

outside an Apple store in Chicago, on Thursday. Photo: AP

Steve Jobs, the 56-year-old iconic co-founder of Apple, breathed his last on Wednesday.
“Technology alone is not enough,” Steve Jobs, the 56-year-old iconic co-founder of Apple, declared last year while unveiling the iPad. “It's technology married with liberal arts, married with humanities, that yields the results that make our hearts sing.” On Wednesday, his own heart stilled as he lost the battle with pancreatic cancer; but the chord he first struck in his garage-based computer venture three decades ago by linking the drive for innovation with the consumer's desire for utilitarian technology will continue to move the world of computing and electronics for many years to come.

A pioneer who made Silicon Valley synonymous with entrepreneurial spirit, innovation and technological excellence, Jobs, launched Apple with his friend, Steve Wozniak, in 1976.

Jobs “died peacefully surrounded by his family,” his wife, Laurene, and four children, said in a statement. In a tribute, Apple said it had “lost a creative and visionary genius and the world [had] lost an amazing human being.”

Tributes poured in from around the world and fans flocked to Apple stores in several countries to mourn the passing of the “leading light” of the digital age, as one industry CEO described him. Flags flew at half mast at the headquarters of the company at Cupertino, California.

Steve Jobs was diagnosed with a rare form of treatable pancreatic cancer in 2003, and underwent surgery. He had a liver transplant six years later with doctors giving him an “excellent prognosis.” In August this year, Jobs stepped down as the CEO of Apple, making way for Tim Cook to take over. He declared that the day had come when he could no longer meet his duties.

U.S. President Barack Obama described Steve Jobs as among the greatest of American innovators — brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, said in a statement, “For those of us lucky enough to get to work with Steve, it's been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.”

In India, the Prime Minister and captains of industry praised his contributions.

Google paid homage with a “Steve Jobs 1955-2011” hyperlink on its home page that took visitors to the Apple website. Others who paid tribute included Google CEO Larry Page, co-founder Sergey Brin, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

Starting as a young entrepreneur who swapped computer parts and ideas in a small computer club in the mid-70s, Jobs — a college drop-out who admired “brilliant troublemakers” — launched the Apple II personal computer in 1977 with Wozniak, achieving notable success. A personal computer that uses a graphical user interface and mouse, the Apple Macintosh was introduced in 1984, developing ideas from Xerox PARC. It was also a commercial hit.

In a dramatic turn of events, Jobs had to leave his own company in 1985, before returning to it and taking over as CEO a dozen years later. In the interim years, he founded NeXT Computer (which was later acquired by Apple) and developed Pixar, the animation company famous for such hits as Finding Nemo, Cars and Toy Story.

Jobs' focus on music, images, videos and highly portable gadgets that connect to computers as part of a “digital hub” strategy was a big success with consumers, starting with the iTunes music management software, and evolving into wildly popular devices such as the iPod, iPhone, and more recently, the iPad tablet computer. This ecosystem of devices and services is described by some as a “walled garden” as it is controlled by Apple, but is a massive hit nevertheless with millions of fans around the world.

32 - Steve Jpbs in Heaven - Cartoons

31 - The Secret Success of Steve Jobs: Wireless Internet

Cees Links
10/12/2011 1:00 PM EDT

 
In the last few days, many have lauded Steve Jobs for his vision and leadership that changed how people use computers, how they consume personal media, and how they communicate with each other. Everyone knows about i-Books, i-Phones, i-Pods and i-Pads.
 
What is much less known is the fact that Steve Jobs is the godfather of Wi-Fi.
 
Without Steve Jobs, we might still be plugging our laptops into Ethernet jacks. His personal drive and vision gave wireless Internet its form. How did this happen?
 
It all began after Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1996 and his decision to venture from just serving the desktop market to entering the laptop space as well: hence the Apple i-Book was conceived.
 
However, Steve Jobs would not be Steve Jobs if he was not searching for unique differentiators – and so I received a call from one of his lieutenants to come to Cupertino and present wireless LANs.
 
At that time, I was working for Lucent Technologies as the General Manager of the Wireless LAN Division. Located in The Netherlands, we were developing and selling the WaveLAN wireless LAN product line with moderate success, but in limited volumes. The applications were very niche oriented: retail point-of-sale, hospitals or schools. At that time, WaveLAN was a separate add-on card and very much a curiosity.
 
Of course we had tried to go mainstream and negotiated to be integrated into laptops from Dell, Toshiba and others, but the costs were too high and the applications were too limited. There was no vision of a mobile connected world like we have today. We heard the same pushback – “Everyone has Ethernet ports, who needs wireless?”
 
The Lucent team originally launched the first WaveLAN products in 1991 and had been trying to team up with the PC manufacturers, as integrated wireless connectivity seemed such a no-brainer. But no one got it. There was no spark. There was no dream of the “anywhere anytime” data connection.
 
This all changed with that single call.
 
With only two weeks to prepare, on 20 April 1998, I had to present wireless LANs to Steve Jobs, who at that time did not yet have the intimidating reputation he earned in the following years.
 
Even though it was a well-prepared presentation, I was expecting that it was going to be a tough sell. The opposite turned to be the situation. I put up the first slide, and Steve started talking about what he wanted. After that he said: “Next slide, please”, and then he mentioned all his specific requirements, including the price point that he wanted to sell the wireless feature at ($99) and then he had to leave the meeting.
 
I remember everybody in the room was baffled, both the Lucent people and the Apple people. To put things in perspective: at that time, the cost to manufacture a WaveLAN card was around $130. Steve’s challenge to us was to get the cost down to about $50, to create sufficient margin for sales and distribution.
 
That electrifying meeting was the start of a successful joint Apple/Lucent effort that resulted in the launch of the Apple i-Book with wireless LAN and the Airport base station. The key challenges were redesign, integration and working with all suppliers to drive down the cost. Amazingly, in about 6 months time the goal was within reach. It was just a clear example of what a clear vision, the promise of high volumes and purchasing power can do.
 
More to the vision of Steve Jobs: the launch in 1999 perfectly coincided with the rise of the Internet and the need of people to have Internet access at home, as well as being able to connect multiple PCs in different locations in the home. Within weeks of Apple’s rollout of the new WLAN technology, we received calls for product integration from IBM, Sony, Compaq, HP, Dell, etc.
 
Because of Steve Job’s vision, today Wi-Fi is a standard feature of every laptop, and of many other devices worldwide.
 
Would Wi-Fi have existed today without Steve Jobs? Sooner or later, yes, it would have made an impact. However, it was Steve Job’s personal drive that determined when and how it was introduced in the market – and how it became an instantaneous success for Apple!
 
Cees Links is President & Founder of GreenPeak (http://www.greenpeak.com), and Marketing Chair for the ZigBee RF4CE Alliance (http://www.zigbee.org).

30 - NYT Blog: Why no Indian Steve Jobs? - Undiplomatic Times

The New York Times blog on India has an item asking, “Where’s India’s Steve Jobs?” The writer, an Indian journalist by the name of Samanth Subramaniam who seems to cater mainly to foreign magazines, admitted it was perhaps a “hollow, even narcissistic, question" because "Brazil hasn’t produced a Steve Jobs; neither has China, the Philippines, Zambia, Australia or any one of dozens of countries around the world.”  But he proceeded to address it anyway.

In doing so he did not hazard a personal opinion on the matter but noted several from a supposed expert, a business consultant on “knowledge societies,” who blamed India’s failure to produce a Steve Jobs on the inadequacy of our educational system, the years of “flirtation” with socialism, and the incapacity of the Indian economy to support success on so grand a scale.

The piece is a textbook example of feel-bad journalism.

First, consider the false presumption that Indian entrepreneurs have failed to innovate spectacularly.

As Raghunath Mashelkar pointed out in his excellent book Reinventing India (Sahayadri Prakashan, Pune, 2011, 403 pages Rs.499. jadanghadan@gmail.com), there have been many cases of huge success.

There is Narayana Murthy’s Infosys, founded in his small apartment with Rs10,000 in capital, growing to a valuation of Rs. 60,000 Crores and vaulting into the front ranks of the global Information Technology industry.

There is Mumbai’s Dabbawala tiffin delivery system, a daily miracle of business organization without parallel anywhere in the world.

There is Dr. Kurien’s “white revolution” that helped make India the world’s top milk producer and Dirubhai Ambani’s soap company that emerged from a Mumbai chawl to become India’s largest business conglomerate.

There are the anonymous scientists of C-DAC who developed an indigenous supercomputing capacity in three years after Cold War politics denied India access to the Cray XMP-1205 in the 1980s.

There is the Indian Space Research Organization, overcoming the same Cold War restraints to design and build domestic capacity from scratch, making India one of the leading nations in the field.

As Mashelkar's book noted, innovation has also thrived outside the organized sector and without government support. When the National Innovation Foundation set up three years ago under his chairmanship organized an annual competition, it received over a thousand submissions the first year and 16,000 the second year. The winners included illiterate and semi-literate people. An illiterate farmer won with a disease resistant pea he had developed, another with a cardamom variety that now accounts for 80 per cent of the crop in Kerala; a high-school dropout got an award for building a complex robot.

 The problem in India is not that we lack success stories but that we do not celebrate them and do not see ourselves as winners. Despite awards ceremonies to recognize excellence and the occasional programme on successful people, our mass media focus consistenly on the negative. Even in reporting the grand and glamorous success of the Indian film industry, the largest in the world, they emphasize the negative. Their label, Bollywood, focuses on the monkey-see-monkey-do aspect of Indian films, ignoring their homegrown verve and grace. Can you imagine the Japanese media labelling their film industry Jollywood? Or the Chinese describing their’s as Chollywood?

The other side of the mass media projection of India as a semi-comic failure is a consistent promotion and celebration of the meretricious foreign. Our major television channels are slavishly imitative of Western trends, with much of the programming lifted from British sources. People are so used to this that few are aware of how bizarre it is, or indeed, how subversive. HBO India is running a month-long programme of James Bond movies sponsored by Tata Manza, with daily email updates on “Bond Girls” delivered to your computer.

The “HB007” promo promises to trace the “evolution” of the “licensed to kill” operative over the years. I am pretty sure it won’t include any reference to the real-life license to kill that Britain exercised in India, targeting not oversize “Bond villains” but Indian freedom fighters, with vast collateral damage. The death toll, if we include the punitive “man-made” famine of 1943 in Bengal and the engineered Partition “riots,” runs into the millions.

As Mashelkar says, the problem “is not the Indian mind but the Indian mindset.”

29 - Apple wins bid to block rival Samsung tablet - Sydney Morning Herald

Louise Hall and Asher Moses
October 13, 2011

APPLE AUSTRALIA WINS A BAN ON SAMSUNG
Apple has won a case to temporarily ban the sale of Samsung Electronics' tablet in Australia.

The Federal Court has granted Apple an injunction to block tech rival Samsung from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia.
Apple is suing Samsung for patent infringement, arguing the firm "slavishly" copied its market-leading iPad tablet.

Justice Annabelle Bennett today said Apple had a prima facie case that Samsung had infringed two of its patents relating to touch screens and the gestures that control them

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will be blocked from sale in Australia. 

Photo: Supplied

Justice Bennett said: "From April 15 when proceedings commenced in the US, Samsung proceeded with its eyes wide open.

"The balance of convenience was almost even ... there were several factors that favoured Apple."

The interlocutory hearing, which considered whether Samsung's competing tablet should be banned from the Australian market, revealed for the first time how serious a threat Apple regards Samsung to be.

Samsung previously agreed not to market nor sell the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia until Justice Bennett handed down her decision.

On October 4, Samsung told the court it would scrap the release of the Galaxy 10.1 if the injunction were granted because missing the Christmas season would make the new tablet "dead" by the time it reached market.

However, Justice Bennett said she had to weigh this consideration against the loss and injury that could be caused to Apple should Samsung be allowed to sell the iPad rival.

The dispute will procede to a full hearing, which is unlikely to occur before next year.

Justice Bennett told the parties she would give them the opportunity for an early hearing next month, the result of which would not prejudice the outcome of the full hearing when it came to trial.

Samsung statement
In a statement, Samsung Electronics said it was disappointed with the ruling and would be seeking legal advice on its options.

"Samsung will continue its legal proceeding against Apple's claim in order to ensure our innovative products remain available to consumers," it said.

"This is a part of our ongoing legal proceeding against Apple's claim. Samsung is also confident it can prove Apple's violation of Samsung's wireless technology patents through a cross-claim filed on September 16, 2011 with the Federal Court of Australia, New South Wales.

"Our wireless standard patents are essential for mobile business. We will continue to legally assert our intellectual property rights against those who violate Samsung's patents and free ride on our technology."

Apple statement

Apple reissued a statement it made when it launched the legal proceedings, saying: "It's no coincidence that Samsung's latest products look a lot like the iPhone and iPad, from the shape of the hardware to the user interface and even the packaging. This kind of blatant copying is wrong, and we need to protect Apple's intellectual property when companies steal our ideas."

Main threat

In previous hearings, Apple lawyers have revealed how the company sees the Galaxy Tab 10.1 as the main competitor to the iPad 2.

The lawyers said the Samsung tablet would be launched "with the velocity of a fire hose" and quickly reduce sales of the iPad 2.

But Samsung argues that its tablet will be largely competing with other Android-based models and that consumers would be deciding whether they wanted Apple's iOS or Android, rather than deciding by comparing the Galaxy Tab 10.1 with the iPad 2.

Similar Apple v Samsung cases are running all over the world. In other jurisdictions Samsung has raised the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of "prior art", since an iPad-like tablet device appears in the film.

Difficult position

Without having viewed the full details of the injunction, Mark Summerfield, a senior associate with Melbourne intellectual property law firm Watermark, said the decision puts Samsung in a difficult position.

"They could launch what was, in effect, a hobbled version of the tablet," Mr Summerfield said.

"Apple would of course be hoping that, by removing some of these desirable features, it would be a less desirable product and therefore the iPad 2 would remain the preferred product in the market.

"I frankly doubt that they're going to get a competitive product on to the market before Christmas, which is clearly something that is important to them.

"So Apple will be very happy."

Mr Summerfield said he at first thought it would be difficult for Apple to succeed in getting an injunction because courts are traditionally reluctant about stopping products from entering a competitive market.

"For a product such as this, I initially wouldn't have really expected it.

"As the proceedings went on, it seemed to me that it became quite finely balanced and I think that, when the actual hearing concluded last week, my view was that it really could go either way."

Foad Fadaghi, research director at telecommunications analyst company Telsyte, said the injunction is a significant blow to the market.

''Samsung was seen as one of the main competitors for the iPad out there with their 10.1 device.

''It has meant there will be less products available on the market.''

Mr Fadaghi said Samsung is likely to have lost many millions of dollars trying to launch the Galaxy Tab 10.1.

''Not just in the court case but in the preliminary efforts that any vendor needs to go into to bring a product to market, particularly when you talk about retail presence, partnerships, channels to market, telco relationships, money that would have had to be spent in marketing.

''It would have been a very expensive exercise for Samsung.''

- with Stephanie Gardiner

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/tablets/apple-wins-bid-to-block-rival-samsung-tablet-20111013-1lm43.html#ixzz1b8kM04AG

28 - Prospero’s Tempestuous Family - Opinion- NY Times

OPED COLUMNIST

By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: October 11, 2011


WASHINGTON

Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

Abdulfattah “John” Jandali is a casino manager outside Reno, so he knows about odds.

And he must wonder sometimes: What are the odds of a Sunni Muslim immigrant from Syria producing two dazzling American talents, a son who transformed the world of technology and a daughter who lit up the world of literature, and ending up estranged from both?

Of the many memorable photos that have been published since Steve Jobs died, the most poignant was in The Wall Street Journal on Monday.

The picture itself wasn’t anything special, not like the intimate portraits of Jobs by Diana Walker that appeared in Time magazine. This was just a head shot of Jobs staring out, with rimless glasses, aquiline nose, receding hairline and intense brown eyes.

It mesmerized because of its juxtaposition to a head shot of Jandali, Jobs’s 80-year-old biological father, who stared out with the same rimless glasses, aquiline nose, receding hairline and intense brown eyes.

Jandali told The Journal that, over the last year, he periodically sent some e-mails to the son he never met, wishing him happy birthday or better health. He said he got a couple of short replies, including a “Thank you.” But a Jobs family friend disputes that.

Jandali, a widower, reads books on an iPad and uses an iPhone 4. But the father of Jobs never met the father of Apple. The closest he got was downloading videos of Jobs introducing Apple products. He didn’t even learn Jobs was his son until around 2005.

When Jandali was pursuing his doctorate in political science at the University of Wisconsin in the early ’50s, he fell in love with a fellow graduate student named Joanne Schieble. She became pregnant, but her family did not approve of her relationship with a Syrian, so she put up her son for adoption. The boy was raised by Paul Jobs, a high-school dropout and machinist for a laser company in Los Altos, Calif., and Clara Jobs, an accountant.

Once Joanne’s disapproving father died a couple of years later, she married Jandali. They had a daughter, who grew up to be Mona Simpson, the novelist.

The couple divorced after a few years and Joanne and Mona lived in Green Bay, Wis., feeling as though Jandali had abdicated his role in their lives. Jandali told The Journal that he had tried to reach Mona after he heard of Jobs’s death, but she did not respond. He keeps a publicity shot of his daughter that he downloaded from the Internet, framed, on his desk.

“If I talked to him,” he said of his son, “I don’t know what I would have said to him.”

Like Shakespearean drama, where fathers haunt and where siblings are swept apart by a shipwreck only to learn later that the other is still alive, Steve and Mona met only in their mid-20s. Jobs began the hunt for his biological mother in his teens and was ready to give up, he told The Times’s Steve Lohr, when he finally discovered at age 27 that he had a younger sister.

He was thrilled that she was an artist because he liked to think of himself as one. The computer whiz kid and the literary whiz kid grew close.

Simpson mined the theme of missing fathers for her critically acclaimed novels “Anywhere But Here” and “The Lost Father.” She also wrote a novel inspired by her famous brother, “A Regular Guy,” which casts a gimlet eye on Jobs, who specialized in hot-cold emotional roller-coaster rides.

It’s about an emotionally disconnected, fruit-loving Silicon Valley biotech entrepreneur named Tom Owens, “a guy in jeans, barefoot in the boardroom.” He lives in a barely furnished mansion once owned by a copper baron, as Jobs did; he loses control of his company to suits, as Jobs did; he tried to decide whom to marry by asking friends which of his two girlfriends was more beautiful, as Jobs did; he belatedly forms a relationship with his out-of-wedlock daughter, as Jobs did.

Simpson begins with the simple devastating sentence: “He was a man too busy to flush toilets.”

She focuses on the painful central question about Jobs: How does the abandoned become the abandoner? When he cast off his own infant daughter he was the same age his parents were when they cast off him.

Three years after the novel came out in 1996, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, the daughter Jobs had with an old girlfriend, wrote a searing piece for The Harvard Advocate about how it took her two years to get up the courage to read her aunt’s book, which contains details like Jane (Lisa’s doppelganger) forging her father’s signature on her Harvard application.

“He was away on business, and it had to be done,” Lisa writes, adding about Mona: “It is a rare experience to find that someone unexpected has been holding captive moments of my past. She watched me when I was younger, sneaking contraband miniskirts and makeup into my locker, and later, during middle and high school, she was one of my primary confidants. I didn’t know that as I sought her consolations and took her advice, she, too, was taking. It was apparently a trade.”

The roman à clef jangled nerves in the family, but Mona and Steve were close again when he was dying.

Beyond the gushing encomiums for the Prospero of Palo Alto, there roiled a family tempest that might have even shocked Shakespeare.