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Is he too sick or sick of work. The later is very unlikly. He will be on the board and continue to work at Apple.

Apple said Mr. Jobs submitted his resignation to the board of directors on Wednesday and "strongly recommended" that the board name Mr. Cook as his successor. Mr. Jobs, 56 years old, has been elected chairman of the board and Mr. Cook will join the board, effective immediately, the company said.

"I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know," Mr. Jobs said in his resignation letter. "Unfortunately, that day has come."

Let the craziness begin. The Apple website was up and down all day June 16, 2010 when pre ordering iPhone 4 began. The Title line read"Have It June 24, 2010" and with in hours it changed to July 2, 2010. Wow thats insane sold out before pre ordering officially began. That's right they started a day early to avoid site issue of the past. It didn't work. The Apple website and the ATT site both had problems because of heavy traffic.
It would appear that those who had the time to constantly refresh the page did place there orders for iPhone 4 with delivery date on June 24, 2010. On the other hand if you waited or didn't get through early you where shut out until July 24, 2010. And forget about getting white.
The delays also trickle down to AT&T Stores as they use their own website to set up accounts and register iPhone serial numbers.

Every year since 2007 Apple has had issues with launching iPhones. The sites crash and inventory drops. It could be clever marketing or any number reasons, but our money is on a purposeful methodical slow release of inventory by Apple. If we think about it Apple has had 3 years to get launch days right. The company also just sold 2 million iPads within months of launch. This would tell us they are fully aware of whats going on and are trying to drive hype. The best marketing in the world is creating a feel of urgency in consumers.

iPad is available in a Wi-Fi + 3G model for fast cellular network access when you’re not within range of a Wi-Fi network.
No-contract, 3G service.
In the U.S., 3G service will be available from AT&T. You can choose from two breakthrough data plans — no contract required.

Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years. The two companies worked closely together to pioneer desktop publishing and there were many good times. Since that golden era, the companies have grown apart. Apple went through its near death experience, and Adobe was drawn to the corporate market with their Acrobat products. Today the two companies still work together to serve their joint creative customers – Mac users buy around half of Adobe’s Creative Suite products – but beyond that there are few joint interests.

I wanted to jot down some of our thoughts on Adobe’s Flash products so that customers and critics may better understand why we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. Adobe has characterized our decision as being primarily business driven – they say we want to protect our App Store – but in reality it is based on technology issues. Adobe claims that we are a closed system, and that Flash is open, but in fact the opposite is true. Let me explain.

First, there’s “Open”.

Adobe’s Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Adobe’s Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Adobe and available only from Adobe. By almost any definition, Flash is a closed system.
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Apple on April 9, 2010 provided a peek at some of the new features coming to its iPhone later this year. In an event at its Cupertino headquarters, CEO Steve Jobs outlined the upcoming update to its iPhone operating system.
The iPhone OS 4 beta software and SDK are available immediately for iPhone Developers.