Fortune Magazine has named Steve Jobs as the CEO of the Decade. And he rightly deserves it. On its Nov09 cover it states, he defied downturn, cheated death, changed our world.
Jobs started Apple in 1976 (that's a very important year, plenty of great things happened then, heh. private joke). 34 yrs later, 2010 Financial Q1 earnings is $15.6B Revenue., which equates to $50B revenue annually. It is now the largest mobile devices company in the world (bigger than Sony's camcorders, bigger than Nokia and Samsung).
He defied death, going through pancreatic cancer in 2004, tumour was successfully removed that year. And in 2009, went through liver transplant. Just watch the video clip though, he looks a bit gaunt in the Jan2010 keynote on iPad.
He has indeed changed our world, things Apple have done to revolutionise the computer world ahead of its competitors, and continuing with the official launch of iPad.
I have been a lifelong fan of Apple and a loyal Apple user. I even used Atari when I was a kiddy, that's when Steve Jobs was designing computer games for Atari. Although one thing I really should have done was buy Apple shares a decade ago. It had dropped to about USD16? Today it's in excess of USD240. Bummer.
The pic here is one of Apple's NY stores, located in Manhattan. Look at the amazing architecture - the store is a Glass cube, A few years ago, I remember talk about Apple opening a glass cube store on Chapel St, South Yarra, sadly that never eventuated, and at present we only have standard stores mainly in shopping centres.
The recent launch of iPad (I blogged about this 28Dec09 and thought it would have been called iSlate after Apple registered that name), but iPad is definitely the better name. If you watch the keynote speech, the interface is amazing and it's such an interactive display. You can think of it as a larger sized version of the IPodTouch.
I am even more happier Jobs used Up as an example for show for the iPad! Remember my blog in Dec dedicated to this enchanting film? Go read it if you haven't yet! He also showed the start of that 10min bit which I so love. And he loves the movie too, awww, very proud Pixar.
One of the new apps which I found exciting cos it relates to a favourite pasttime is iBooks. Here you can order your book on the iBook Store, read reviews, and once ordered, you can read the book on your iPad. Downloads literally takes seconds! Even more amazing is that you can change font size and font type. I was gobsmacked. Currently 5 big publishers have allowed Apple to utilise their books via apps and I'm sure more companies will signup with Apple (if they want to take advantage of marketshare) and how more and more people are really buying books online (incl me). One day, you'd be seeing students reading textbooks using an iPad right there on the trains on the way to school. Amazing.
I'd say, go out and order one today, will be out end Feb-early March 2010. If you start with a 16gb one it'd set you back just under AUD600. Anything up to 64gb would be closer to AUD1,000.
Full keynote speech:
events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1001q3f8hhr/event/index.html
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