The photo’s a bit blurry, but it does give you the general idea: It’s big, it’s shiny, it looks like a space ship that just landed (or a cooler-looking Pentagon), and, if Steve Jobs pulls it off, it’s going to be Apple’s new campus. To be located just off the I-280 in Cupertino in a 98-acre patch that was formerly the HP campus of land, this is a render of Jobs’ vision, as shown to the Cupertino City Council: “The Mothership,” a huge, round, 4-storey building that will hold 12,000 employees.
Today marks the tenth-year anniversary of the Apple Store, but before we blow out the candles on the birthday cake, check out this video of a much younger-looking Steve Jobs introducing the Apple Store concept back in 2001. Back when Apple Stores weren’t filled with iPods, iPhones and iPads (the first iPod was introduced later in the year), shelves were stocked with software boxes, and the Genius Bar was a small table in the back. Video after the break.
Jon Bon Jovi just came out with an interesting interview with the Sunday Times Magazine, where he accused Steve Jobs of “killing” the music industry with iTunes. Bon Jovi said that “Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album; and the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it.”
Tech presentations. No one does it better than Steve Jobs, who pleasantly showed up onstage today to deliver the iPad 2 presentation. If you missed the live stream this morning, you can still catch the keynote over at Apple’s website now. Quality’s a bit bad and the stream speed isn’t that great since a lot of people are probably going to watch it today. Hopefully, they release the HD version soon. Of course, you could just read about it since everyone in tech land is going to be going over this, but again, no one does it better than Jobs. Great to see him looking lively on stage today. Check it out here.
Little bit of a shocker there. Well, not really “shocking” per se, but it’s just something you didn’t expect. Just 5 years after unleashing Facebook, 26 year-old founder Mark Zuckerberg is now worth more than Steve Jobs. According to Forbes, Zuckerberg added $4.9 billion to his name this year, adding up to a total net worth of $6.9 billion, or around $800 million more than Jobs. That’s enough to place Zuckerberg at #35 on the Forbes 400 (richest in America), while Steve Jobs is at #42. (Bill Gates, by the way, still leads the list by far with $54 B, while Oracle head Larry Ellison is at #3 with $27 B.)
