Highlights in the Apple Event on October 4

Over the past few months, the world has been hooked with the latest stuff that Apple has to offer to every device and tech enthusiast. From the latest and most powerful in cloud computing to the latest gadgets that would be out in the market, there are many people waiting on what could be unveiled on the upcoming Apple event in Cupertino, California this October. Let us check the top 10 highlights of this upcoming event, and the things that can be learned in attending it.

10. Vision of Tim Cook

The world has been shocked when the news of Steve Job’s resignation came to light. He has been replaced by one of Apple’s member of the board, Tim Cook. He has been there when Jobs had to leave for surgery, and take the task of being CEO. Now that the position he took is official, everyone is anticipating of the path that Apple would take on his leadership.

9. Role of Steve Jobs

With Steve Jobs away, shareholders, customers, and business partners would now understand the difference of both leaderships. The legacy, his contributions, and breakthroughs will be unfolded as everything is being reviewed in a nutshell. They would come to know of the Jobs difference in the direction of Apple and its significance for the company.

8. Success of Apple

Just like in any Apple event, you will come to know of the various statistics that Apple will show to the world, in respect to the achievements and highlights attained. It can be about sales on iPhone in certain timeframes, the millions of apps being downloaded and purchased, or the impact in iPhone markets in different countries. You will hear numbers and figures presented in a unique fashion.

7. Future Plans of Apple

Everything that will be discussed in the upcoming event will have clues as to what the future holds for Apple. For example, as the iCloud includes integrated services with playing your music anywhere, it may involve development projects for the iTunes. On the other hand, there could be a blueprint of what the next iPhone would present, based on the expectations being set in the creation of the iPhone 5. They may not share the details, but you would sense what they would like to achieve in the near future.

6. Apps

Apps of many shapes and sizes will be discussed. Now that the iPhone 5 will be coming out soon, there may be some unveiling with new app concepts, support, and compatibilities. Games developers, utilities professionals, and programmers becomes the stars of the apps of the next iPhone generation.

5. Apple TV

A set top box that can stream and play your device contents and applications on TV is the main concept of the Apple TV when it was introduced to the public in 2010. However, this has been viewed as something not greater than a hobby, an option that can be brushed aside by many Apple device owners. However, this event may unveil a fresher and more intuitive box that can give the Apple TV a new perspective.

4. iCloud

When the introduction of the iCloud occurred so many months ago, people had tried to comprehend what it can do to existing customers who owns a Mac PC, a MacBook, an iPhone, or an iPad. Some have been amazed of extracting previously purchased apps, while others were surprised of revealing previously unavailable apps that can be downloaded for some time. Back then, however, the iCloud was only available for developers. But with the event in place, it is expected to announce the availability of this service within the year.

3. iOS5

The iOS 5 is Apple’s simple way of getting head to head with Google’s Android operating system, currently Gingerbread, with future releases of Ice Cream Sandwich and Jellybean. It will be looked at with an inquisitive eye, observing the unique difference of the latest iOS with its predecessor that has been the highlight of the iPhone 4.

2. Android and Samsung

Everyone has been conscious of the competition between Apple, Android, and Samsung. There were hot exchanges of court battles, charges of copyright violations, and other charges. With the upcoming event, people would know how Apple has beaten its competitors with numbers against sales, and other information, such as its success against the Galaxy Tab and the Samsung Galaxy SII.

1. iPhone 5

Of the many things that will be tackled and talked about, the iPhone 5 can be considered as the crowning glory of this year’s event. You may have been part of the rumor madness, beginning from the factory explosion in China, to the specs that are being talked about in ridiculous detail, despite of being a rumor. For over 3 months, many device freaks have followed the development, until it comes to an end. The event becomes the official rumor killer of the newest iPhone.

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Interesting Facts About Tim Cook

Everyone is still in shocked when the news circulated over the net that Mr. Steve Jobs resigned from his post as a Chief Executive Officer of Apple who will be replaced by Tim Cook. No one has expected that he will leave his position from the company that he personally founded together with other pioneers like Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in 1976. It has been more than 3 decades. This is one of the breaking news in the market and everyone would want to know more about Mr. Cook. He would take the post and responsibilities that Mr. Jobs would leave behind. Therefore, before you get clueless, here are some of the exciting and interesting facts about the new leader of Apple, Tim Cook.

10. A Very Private Person

He is not a typical leader that you could see catching the attention of glamour and glitz of the international or worldwide market. He is not as outgoing as the outgoing CEO of Apple is. He loves to keep things confidential. He has a mild-nature personality, a soft-spoken person, and very enthusiastic. He does things without causing too much of spotlight from co-workers and other colleagues.

9. A Fan Himself

Like any ordinary citizen, he also admires people and has his own passion or liking in specific sports, such as football. He has so much respect and admiration to Auburn Football, which significantly leaves an impression that he can be ordinary and he can do ordinary things.

8. Loves Working and Sending Emails Early in the Morning

While everyone feels that his or her body is still being invigorated and freshened before a day’s work, he does thing differently. He does not do workouts in the morning or take some breeze walking to get ready to work but his job is to send emails not just in the morning but early in the morning. How early it is? It is 4:30 in the morning and that is how he starts the day right.

7. A Fitness Enthusiast

Although his routine is different from any other company leaders, he still allots enough time to go to a gym and shape himself up. In fact, his advocacy in fitness can be seen on his active participation on other outdoor activities such as biking and hiking, which he is consistently doing to energize his body and mind.

6. Temporary CEO for Apple A Couple of Times

He has enough exposure and familiarity on the job that Steve would leave to him since he has been appointed in some situations when Mr. Jobs needed to address series of medical attention, which he successfully played. This job is no longer new for him because he has been used to it and he knows how it works.

5. IBM and Compaq Product

Before he joined Apple, he had years of exposure on the competitors of Apple, which are IBM and Compaq, where he gained full advantages to really contribute in the competitive world of gadgets, specifically computer and other gizmos in the market.

4. Educational Highlights

He completed Industrial Engineering in 1982 at Auburn University then later received his MBA from Duke University’s Fugua School of Business in 1988.

3. His Natural Heritage

He was born and raised in Robertsdale, Alabama, but he came from a simple family where his father’s occupation is a shipyard worker while his mother is a full time homemaker.

2. Independently Hardworking

He may have not received the luxuries of life while he was young, which could be attributed for his mild nature and simplicity. Yet he has reaped all the rewards because of his frugality and hardworking nature. In fact, he is one of the biggest contributors to the successes that Apple had in the past, where even Mr. Jobs believed in him.

1. 13 Years for Timothy

As he turns 13 years staying in Apple, he has been welcomed to lead and take the pride to make it even flourishing and hone it for future generation. He is Timothy D. Cook or better known as Tim Cook.

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Top 10 Creations and Innovations by Steve Jobs

10. USB Power Adapter

If you think that this was just another thing to pass by, you need to think again. Yup, it was not the Chinese that made this thing to light. In order for the iPod to be charged and connected to the computer on different instances, just in case a computer is absent, Steve Jobs made an adapter that can have the same charging function of a PC.

9. NeXT Computer

When Steve Jobs left Apple in 1985, he had created his own computer empire to show Apple that he can live without the company that ditched him. As founder and CEO of NeXT, he was able to create a computer line in 1988 and a smaller version in 1990. When Jobs came back to Apple, he purchased NeXT in December 1996 for $429 million, for the sake of expanding the OSX line with NeXT’s OpenStep system.

8. Pixar Animation Studios

Before Steve Jobs bought the company and made it into his own, it was known as Lucasfilm. Yup, the same group that was behind the stunning graphics being used in Star Wars movies and other Sci-Fi movies like Star Trek. He purchased the company, before with 45 CG experts, for $5 million to George Lucas, and another $5 million for the working capital. Pixar was born when Jobs left Apple in 1986.

7. Macintosh

First created in January 24, 1984, it was the first of the line of computers to be developed and sold by Apple. It was the computer that pioneered the path to what is being adapted in the modern day, operated by a mouse and using graphics user interface instead of a command line interface that is found in MS-DOS. Right now, we are enjoying iMacs and MacBooks coming from the early masterpiece.

6. iTunes Music Store

Thanks to his concern to music artists and other musicians, Steve Jobs made a way for customers to enjoy their downloaded music while assuring that artists are paid for the music they made. The iTunes store sold music for $0.99 each and has a complex security system that cannot be hacked for stealing music.

5. Mac OSX

The reign of Apple’s powerful computer operating system was developed greatly, thanks to the OpenStep system found in NeXTSTEP, as Steve Jobs created the company when he left Apple in 1985. The existing Mac was combined with a different system, making the Mac OS adaptable to home and professional use. Everyone may have heard “Rhapsody” which was the name of the Mac OSX before it was launched for public purchase.

4. iPod

Steve Jobs had changed the game once more when he considered people who have been enjoying the life of portable music while not worrying the weight and size of what they carry. The iPod has been designed as an inspiration for those people who cannot live without their bulky walkman or CD player.

3. iPad

A device that gave birth to other tablet computers and other portable tab devices like the Samsung Galaxy Tab or the BlackBerry Playbook. Steve Jobs was at it again, innovating something new that others find hard to imitate. He made the iPhone grow bigger and become better.

2. iPhone

One of the best toys to be ever enjoyed by both kids and adults alike is the iPhone. When it was first introduced in January 9, 2007, the whole world was shaken with a game changer in mobile phone technology. It had brought internet and gaming in a whole new level. It is, and it may be the best portable mobile device to do pretty much of everything from video, to audio, to gaming, and even social networking.

1. Apple

Who could believe that one of the world’s greatest computer empires had started from a home garage way back in April 1, 1976, with only three people doing all of the dirty work? The partnerships of Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne gave way to the development of a huge compute company. Back then, the computer was handmade and the innovation just kept going better and better. Homes, businesses, and the corporate world have seen the developments as revolutionary and amazing. Right now, it still rocks with the latest gadgets and other technologies that others find challenging to mimic or overthrow.

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