Steve and Laurene Jobs - after his WWDC keynote speech - June 2011
Mr. Steven P. Jobs, Chairman and co-founder of Apple Computer; holder of over 300 patents; and all-around business genius, died of Pancreatic cancer yesterday, and the world that he changed is in mourning. He leaves behind his wife Laurene Jobs, and three children.
…signaling a bold move on Redmond that will likely reverberate within big tech for many years to come. The new operating system is to become available in beta form later this year, with broad availability during 2010.
Microsoft has been very vocally and publically working to get into Google’s core business – search and advertising – over the past few years. It looks like Google isn’t going to be held back from getting into Microsoft’s core business as well. This is a good thing for everyone, as it’s bound to stimulate competition and innovation. And it should become very interesting as it plays out; as this is definitely a “clash of the Titans”!
It will take Google many years to budge Microsoft’s operating system market share. But how many of those analysts have USED Google’s Chrome Browser, which will become the basis of this new personal computing operating system?
Today Apple went beyond opening up the iPhone to software developers with the expected software developer kit (SDK).
They also announced MS-Exchange Compatibility by licensing ActiveSync technology from Microsoft.
The third major component of this announcement was provided by John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins, who announced the establishment of a $100M “iFund”, dedicated to companies developing iPhone compatible software.
{mosimage}Steve Jobs shows the rest of the industry “how it should be done” — again – launching and marketing three significant new product line initiatives at this show which is put on annually by Macworld Magazine.