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Steve Jobs Wanted To Make An iCar

What would an iCar look like?Interesting factoids and stories about late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs have been constantly surfacing since his death in October of last year. Biographer Walter Isaacson revealed that Jobs had “finally cracked” a standalone Apple TV set, and many “lost”...

Steve Jobs subject of new children’s book

The Loop spotted a new book over at Amazon called "Who Was Steve Jobs?" that appears to be a children's book, of all things. It's part of a series of books designed to tell kids about famous historical figures and why they're so admired or well-kn...

Steve Jobs to get the Sorkin treatment, plus 4 other Apple stories to read today

Here's our daily pick of stories about Apple from around the web that you shouldn't miss. Today's installment: The other Steve Jobs movie (without Ashton Kutcher), China Mobile and Apple keep talking, Sprint looks longterm with the iPhone, and Tim Cook goes to Washington.

Three scenes from Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs biopic we can’t wait to see

Apple's CEO left the master of dysfunctional relationships a lot of material to work with

FORTUNE -- Viewers who have followed Aaron Sorkin's TV and film work over the years were delighted to learn Tuesday that one of Hollywood's most gifted screenwriters has officially signed on to adapt Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs for Sony...

The Zooey Deschanel effect

The iPhone's "buzz" got a bump after Apple started using celebrities in its Siri ads

FORTUNE -- Some purists used the fact that Apple (AAPL) had replaced the always appealing but generally anonymous faces in its TV ads with a couple of Hollywood celebrities -- Zooey Deschanel and Samuel L. Jackson -- as evidence that the company had...

Analyst gives some good reasons why the rumored ‘iTV’ isn’t a given

Rumors of Apple’s “iTV” set have spiraled ever since former CEO Steve Jobs said on stage at an AllThingsD conference that he “cracked the television.” Since then, many analysts and publications reported on the iTV—sometimes very inaccurately—claiming it will feature Siri and a Facetime camera for video calls built-in to a larger panel that looks...

Steve Jobs on camera: ‘The publishers are actually going to withhold their books from Amazon’

Telegraphing an alleged price-fixing conspiracy 2 years before the DOJ caught up to it

FORTUNE -- Paid Content's Laura Hazard Owen, combing through documents newly unredacted in the states' (as opposed to the U.S. Department of Justice's) antitrust complaint against Apple (AAPL) and five book publishers, uncovered a gem: a blunt Steve Jobs e-mail that basically...

Check Out Ashton Kutcher In His Steve Jobs Costume For The New Indie Film [Image]

ashtonjobsAshton Kutcher was spotted walking around Los Angeles this morning dressed head-to-toe in full Steve Jobs apparel. Apparently Kutcher was on his way to the set of his new indie Steve Jobs biopic –  Jobs: Get Inspired. From the late 90’s and onward Jobs...

Stop Exploiting Steve Jobs

steve jobsApple founder Steve Jobs died more than seven months ago. All kinds of people are lining up to hijack his memory for their own purposes. It’s time to stop. One way that people are doing this is digging up and publicizing “lost” tape....

For every $1 Google spends lobbying, Apple spends 10¢

Is that really why Apple has become, per Politico, a "punching bag" for lawmakers? 

FORTUNE -- I might feel differently about Apple's D.C. Lobbying Effort Has Yet to Ripen, the 1,450-word piece posted on Politico Wednesday, if I hadn't just listened to Take the Money and Run for Office, This America Life's brilliant hour-long expose of how Washington,...

How Apple gets to $2,000

Andy Zaky has a plan

FORTUNE -- Most Apple (AAPL) analysts will offer estimates that look a few quarters or even a year in advance.

Andy Zaky is not like most analysts.

For one thing, his estimates over the past four years have been considerably more accurate than your average Wall Street analyst (see, for example, here).

For another,...

How Apple gets to $2,000

Andy Zaky has a plan

FORTUNE -- Most Apple (AAPL) analysts will offer estimates that look a few quarters or even a year in advance.

Andy Zaky is not like most analysts.

For one thing, his estimates over the past four years have been considerably more accurate than your average Wall Street analyst (see, for example, here).

For another,...