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Apps have created 466,000 U.S. jobs in four years

by Steven Sande (Feb 7th, 2012)

Apps for mobile devices are a surprisingly robust source of jobs in the United States, according to research from TechNet. Since 2008, apps have created 466,000 American jobs. TechNet estimates that about 155,000 of those tech-related jobs are related to app development and tech support, while the ...

Why Apple's products are 'Designed in California' but 'Assembled in China'

by Chris Rawson (Jan 22nd, 2012)

Look at the back of your iPhone, or your iPad, or on the bottom of your Mac. You'll see the following words embossed somewhere: "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China." Many Americans, all the way up to the President himself, have wondered why Apple has outsourced virtually all of ...

Barbara Walters names Steve Jobs most fascinating person of 2011

by Mike Schramm (Dec 16th, 2011)

This probably isn't the most important honor Steve Jobs has ever picked up, but Barbara Walters has named Apple's co-founder as the most fascinating person of 2011, as reported by USA Today. Unfortunately the article doesn't actually tell us why, instead focusing reality show personalities, ...

John Lasseter receives star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, honors Jobs

by Mike Schramm (Nov 2nd, 2011)

Pixar head (and current Disney chief creative officer) John Lasseter recently was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in addition to being honored for all his great work on Pixar's movies and Disney's animations, Lasseter himself passed on some of the honor to Steve Jobs. Jobs ...

Steve Jobs on Apple in 1996, prior to his return

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 19th, 2011)

In 1996, Steve Jobs sat down with PBS' Wall $treet Week host Louis Rukeyser and discussed his current business ventures - Pixar and NeXT. He also touched briefly on his former project, Apple, which in 1996 was at an all-time low and considered to be "one of the failure stories of Wall Street." ...

Apple revamps Student Jobs page

by Michael Grothaus (Sep 2nd, 2011)

Apple has revamped their Student Jobs page, which allows students or recent graduates to find work opportunities with Apple. The newly revamped page offers a simplified layout with job opportunities sorted into two sections: "I'm currently in school" lists all Apple Campus Rep, internship, ...

Apple looking to hire "iOS Maps Application Developer"

by Michael Grothaus (May 4th, 2011)

Apple has posted a new job opening for an iOS Maps Application Developer. Last December, Apple posted a job opening stating it was looking for someone who had "experience developing navigation software," but this is the first time Apple has explicitly stated it's looking for a Maps ...

Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. calls out iPad as a job-killer

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 16th, 2011)

In March, Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) pushed his idea to amend the Constitution to guarantee an iPad, Kindle or Nook for every school child in the United States. In the intervening month, something must have happened to change Rep. Jackson's mind about Apple's tablet ...

Survey finds customers confident in Apple without Steve Jobs

by Dana Franklin (Feb 23rd, 2011)

If Steve Jobs were to step down as the CEO of Apple, what effect -- if any -- would it have on the likelihood of buying Apple products in the future? Research firms RBC Capital Markets and ChangeWave asked Apple customers this question in a survey conducted between January 31 and February 9. ...

Apple seeking photo software expert for iPad

by Mike Schramm (Feb 2nd, 2011)

A job listing on Apple's Jobs site (and by that we mean careers, not Steve) asks for an iOS photography software engineer specifically to work on "the Mac and iPad platforms," fueling more speculation that a future iPad will likely have a camera built into it. This is far from a confirmation -- in ...

Apple looking to hire voice technology, speech recognition specialists

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 22nd, 2010)

Apple is looking to hire several voice and speech recognition experts for iOS, according to four new postings on Apple's job board. The new hires would join the iOS Application Framework team and would be working on "speech-related development activities." These multiple listings come hot on the ...

Steve Jobs: AirPrint support for Mac and PCs not canceled

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 10th, 2010)

We reported earlier on a rumor suggesting that new iOS 4.2 AirPrint feature that allowed users to print wirelessly to any printer connected to a PC or Mac had been canceled. Because of the rumor, a frustrated MacRumors reader emailed Steve Jobs and suggested that Apple could begin to lose ...

Steve Jobs chilling with President Obama today

by Josh Helfferich (Oct 21st, 2010)

According to Business Insider, President Obama is scheduled to be flying into the San Francisco area this afternoon to attend an event for District Attorney Kamala Harris and to deliver remarks at a later dinner. What isn't on the President's public agenda, according to an anonymous source familiar ...

Apple to create new HTML5 content for website

by Dave Caolo (Sep 29th, 2010)

Apple has published a new job posting for a Creative Technology Manager, tasked in part with creating new HTML5 content at Apple.com, with support for iOS devices. The listing seeks an individual who "...will be responsible for driving web-standard (HTML5) innovation that enhances and redefines ...

iPod touch makes up 38% of iDevices shipped

by Mike Schramm (Sep 7th, 2010)

Blogger asymco did a little calculating from last week's announcement numbers, and has hammered out a rough estimate of just how many of each iDevice are floating around the world today. According to Steve at last week's event, there are 120 million iDevices total in the world, and we already knew ...