We have a new ipad app! I am pretty excited about it since I helped pick what sections would go in it. You can download it for free here.
If you do download it and have any suggestions please feel free to email them to me at jesullivan@tribune.com.
Google has acquired Motorola’s mobile phone business for a whopping $12.5 billion. Things just got very interesting in the Google, Apple and Microsoft battle. (via Motorola acquisition means Google gets 17,000 patents, 3 times Nortel’s)
For what it’s worth, it looks like the Wall Street Journal had the story cold, like way before the Times. The latter had a blog post up rehashing the resignation letter while the Journal had a board member comment and much more. A whole article. By about 15 minutes. Just goes to show which paper Apple wanted to break the news with, we guess.
HuffPo wins the award for classiest treatment of the Steve Jobs story tonight. We only wish we could do something this classy. (via Charles Apple)
Wow. There’s a time for snark and I dont think this it.
Who is Tim Cook? Steve Jobs’ hand-picked successor has been described as an intensely private workalohic, a fitness nut, and a taskmaster. He prides himself on being first man in the office in the morning and the last one out at night.