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Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.

At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.

Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.

Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.

Its looking like Verizon Wireless is cracking AT&T hold on Apple iPhone sales statistics.

iPhone 4S appears to be luring away customers who have been using Android phones, Morgan Keegan analyst Tavis McCourt asserts in a research note.

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Verizon reportedly has sold 2 million iPhones and its numbers are rising faster than AT&Ts numbers. Forbes magazine and other online portals are reports Blackberry and Android users are jumping ship to iPhone because they don't have to change provideers. Makes sense.

Breaking News Reports coming out of China are disturbing in the case of the missing 4TH Generation Apple iPhone Prototype. On July 21, 2009 Apple confirmed a young worker being investigated committed suicide in connection with the missing phone.
What most people don't realize is the iPhone is developed and manufactured in China by a company named Foxxconn in the Shenzhen Province China. The area is a manufacturing center and Foxxconn is the king.
Apple doesn't really speak to the Chines connection much. Most Apple followers see the secrecy that Apple cloaks from the general public.
Reports coming out of China say 25 year-old Sun Danyong committed suicide after a fourth-generation iPhone prototype he was responsible for went missing. He was a recent engineering graduate student. July 9th, Sun got 16 prototype phones from the assembly line at a local Foxconn Manufacturing facility. At some point in the next few days, he noticed one of the phones was not there. Sun Danyong suspected that it had was left at the factory, but he still couldn’t find it. On Monday, July 13, Sun Danyong reported the missing phone to his boss. Then, that Wednesday, three Foxconn employees searched his apartment.
It has been reported in China that Sun Danyong was interrogated and beaten over days.
Apple has confirmed Sun Danyong death and issued a statement As follows. "We are saddened by the tragic loss of this young employee, and we are awaiting results of the investigations into his death," Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet told CNET on Tuesday July 21, 2009. "We require our suppliers to treat all workers with dignity and respect."
Apple said nothing of the details of this mans death.
Will companies like Apple be forced to look at the countries they do business in. American companies have been doing business in China for years. Over those years much criticism about send jobs overseas to a country that has many human rights issues.

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Semiconductor Insights presents a teardown of Apple's new iPhone in this video from 2007. We have come a long way since the iPhone was introduced. Don't you think ?