“The desktop version of Safari should ‘soon’ get full HTML5 support, Apple CEO Steve Jobs reportedly claims in a new e-mail,” MacNN reports.

“The browser, available for Mac and Windows, is still lacking many of the components of the HTML5 specification, including drag-and-drop, geolocation and inline SVG,” MacNN reports. “Several of these have been added to the latest beta of Google Chrome, rendering Safari outdated.”

MacNN reports, “The last major desktop version of Safari, Safari 4, was released on June 8th last year; this could suggest that Apple will time an update for this year’s WWDC, scheduled to begin on June 7th.”

Full article, with links to Jobs’ email, here.

Source: MacDailyNews

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been named to TIME Magazine’s 2010 list of The World’s Most Influential People and is also featured onTIME’s extended cover.

The 2010 TIME 100 list is divided into the following categories:
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“On two occasions, Steve Jobs has called the iPad the ‘most important product’ he has ever worked on. Keep in mind, this is the guy who, along with Steve Wozniak, essentially invented the personal computer,” Tim Bajarin reports for PC Magazine. “Jobs was also the driving force behind Apple’s desktop publishing vision. He also gave the world the iPod and iPhone, products that have gone on to redefine the way we think about their respective spaces.”

“Yet Jobs calls the iPad the most important product he has ever worked on,” Bajarin reports. “I’ve been pondering this statement since the Apple CEO first proclaimed it upon the launch of the device in late January.”
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Dan Frommer reports for Silicon Alley Insider, “SAI reader ‘James’ sent Jobs an email last week after reading a speech Steve gave about his experience with liver disease, which led to his liver transplant last year. Steve was speaking at an event in California, where he was promoting a bill that would effectively make it easier for people who need organ transplants to get them.”

James wrote to Steve:

Thank you, you’re awesome.

I lost my girlfriend on April 23, 2008 from melanoma which spread rapidly to her liver, 48 hours after we found out it spread to her liver she sadly passed away….she was only 24 and I think about her every day. I am so grateful you took time out to do this. My girlfriend and I are from Cupertino, since childhood, and it’s really nice to see the hometown hero take time out to do this.

Once again, thank you so much.

Sincerely,

James

A few hours later, Steve wrote back:

Your [sic] most welcome, James. I’m sorry about your girlfriend. Life is fragile.

Steve

Sent from my iPad

Frommer reports, “After reviewing the header information, we believe this email is indeed from Steve. But there’s always the possibility that it’s not.”

More details in the full article here.

“Apple CEO Steve Jobs is on a roll,” MG Siegler reports for TechCrunch. “He’s lately been shooting off emails left and right in response to customers’ concerns. We just were sent what appears to be one such Jobs response, sent last week surrounding the whole Mark Fiore situation. And it’s a good one.”

Siegler reports, “When questioned about Apple’s role as moral police in the App Store, Jobs responds that ‘we do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off theiPhone.’ Better, is what he said next: ‘Folks who want porn can buy and [sic] Android phone.’”

Siegler reports, “Assuming this email is legit, this isn’t the first time Jobs has suggested users try Android if they want porn. Earlier this month, during a Q&A session after the iPhone 4.0 OS event, Jobs said, ‘You know, there’s a porn store for Android. You can download nothing but porn. You can download porn, your kids can download porn. That’s a place we don’t want to go – so we’re not going to go there.’”

“This is noteworthy both because it’s funny, and because Apple and Google are in the early stages of a war that’s brewing between the iPhone and Google’s Android platform,” Siegler reports. “Jobs is apparently going to keep taking these jabs from what he considers to be the moral high-ground.”

Read the full back-and-forth emails in the full article here.

Source: MacDailyNews

“To say that Steve Jobs can hold a grudge is like saying the Pope wears funny hats,” Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry writes for The Business Insider.

“And this why the Inner Daemon blog supposes one reason Apple has gone to war against Adobe is probably thanks to a decision Adobe made almost 15 years ago to focus on Windows as its main platform,” Gobry writes. “There could be something there.”

Gobry writes, “In 1996, as Apple looked doomed, Adobe decided to focus on the Windows platform. Even as Apple became resurgent again and OS X was introduced as a very compelling platform, Adobe snubbed it… By 2006, when Apple had been turned around and was fully resurgent, with the Mac as the platform of choice for creative professionals and an increasing number of people, Adobe still focused on Windows first, and was complacent in porting its products for the Mac.

Full article here.

Source: MacDailyNews

Bob Cringely has republished a quote from an interview he did with Bill Gates from June, 1998 for a never-published piece for Vanity Fair:

“What I can’t figure out is why he (Steve Jobs) is even trying (to be the CEO of Apple)? He knows he can’t win.” – Bill Gates, June 1998

Cringely writes, “Look at the two companies today. Jobs is still running Apple despite cancer and a liver transplant while Gates has moved on to saving the world at the Gates Foundation. Microsoft is worth $240 billion, a tiny drop from 12 years ago, with the shares now around $27 (down from $29). Nothing gained in more than a decade. Apple shares, on the other hand, have gone from $7.25 to almost $240, Apple’s market cap has risen more than 33X from $6 billion to $220 billion. And Cupertino’s cash hoard today is almost exactly the same as Microsoft’s at around $40 billion.”

“It’s pretty easy to argue that Jobs did win. Certainly Apple has the mojo lately with its string of home run products like the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and now the iPad. Even Mac market share is up in the double digits and Apple’s profit margins are the best in the industry,” Cringely writes. “The trend line is definitely up for Apple and mildly down for Microsoft.”

Cringely writes, “What Bill Gates didn’t count on when he declared Jobs a loser back in 1998, was the Californian’s tenacity. It took 12 years to do it, but Apple is well positioned now to take Microsoft’s crown.”

Full article here

Source: MacDailyNews