“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 “Several of these have been added to the latest beta of Google Chrome, rendering Safari outdated.”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:

• Leaders: Sarah Palin, Manmohan Singh and other global movers and shakers
• Heroes: The inspiring feats of an urban farmer, an air-traffic controller in Haiti and icons like Bill Clinton
• Artists: Lady Gaga, Conan O’Brien and others who make us dance, giggle and retweet
• Thinkers: Steve Jobs plus scientists, statesmen and a Supreme Court Justice
• Social Networking: An in-depth look at who on our list holds the most influence in our interconnected world

TIME’s entry on Steve Jobs is written by artist Jeff Koons: Apple’s core ideal has always been to make people’s experience of computing as accessible and pleasurable as possible. As a young man, Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, decided to be the Beatles of computing. I once said that I make what the Beatles would have made if they made sculpture, and I can appreciate how Steve, 55, applies their ethos of optimism to his work. The tools he has given us, from the Macs at my studio to the iPhone in my pocket, are like clean, new windows, fitting between our selves and our work elegantly, naturally and unobtrusively.
It’s great to see Steve stay true to his vision. I can imagine some young artist saying today, “I make what Steve Jobs would make if he made sculpture.”

TIME’s full list is here.

“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.”

Bajarin writes, “Jobs clearly believes that there is something ‘magical’ about the iPad. To understand his thinking, one has to realize that Jobs doesn’t think like a techie. He doesn’t concern himself with speeds and feeds. Jobs focuses on the ways in which people use technology. He is also interested in how the finished product looks and feels and how it becomes a part of a person’s lifestyle.”

Full article here.

Source: MacDailyNews

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.

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

“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

“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

“Photos of Schmidt and Jobs talking were snapped and sent to Gizmodo,” AppleInsider reports. “Jobs was in his trademark mock turtleneck and jeans at the cafe Calafia in the Town and Country shopping center. The establishment is owned by former Google chef Charlie Ayers.”

AppleInsider reports, “Jobs was overheard by the photographer as saying two things: ‘They’re going to see it all eventually, so who cares how they get it,’ reportedly said about Web content. And, ‘Let’s go discuss this somewhere more private,’ after a crowd began to gather around the two. The report said that Schmidt was mostly quiet and listening while Jobs did most of the talking.”

AppleInsider reports, “‘The fact they’d meet in a neutral place like this implies, although does not prove, they chose a public place for its neutrality,’ Gizmodo’s Brian Lam wrote. ‘Or they just wanted coffee and inevitably started talking shop, albeit in public. But since when do billionaires have to step out for coffee? The only thing that adds up is that neither felt comfortable meeting at each other’s HQs, and this is the start of talks that will inevitably be tense for both sides.’”

Jobs’ familiar Mercedes-Benz SL 55 AMG was also spotted parked out front.

Full article here.

Gizmodo’s full article is here.

Source: MacDailyNews

“While preparing my response, I also heard from Jobs himself, who personally, and politely, reiterated Apple’s assertion that the iPad will run for 10 hours on a single charge,” Breeden writes. “The iPad has yet to be released, of course, so the jury’s still out, but Jobs’ personal note does, I think, lend credibility to the claim.”

“As I was finishing this column, I e-mailed him to say that I didn’t mean to imply that he was lying during his iPad presentation, as several people accused me of in their comments,” Breeden simpers. “People make presentations written by marketers all the time that are not 100 percent truthful, and it doesn’t make them liars.”

Breeden writes, “I told him I looked forward to testing it out in the lab soon. And I’m more hopeful than ever that Apple really has done something special with their new tablet. (It’s also worth noting that Jobs actually uses the iPad — at the bottom of the e-mail was the tagline “Sent from my iPad.” Nice to see he walks the walk, too.)”

Full article here.

“‘He called me and said, ‘This is Steve Jobs from Apple.’ I said, ‘Yeah right. I have a son that loves to play tricks and he does that every now and then — calls me and imitates somebody.’ After three or four times of asking ‘Come on now, who is this,’ Sulcer realized that his caller ID read simply ‘Apple,’ and only then did he believe that he was the winner of the contest and a $10,000 iTunes card,” Kreps reports.

Full article, in which Kreps reports that Sulcer was “unaware that Apple was even having a contest celebrating their 10 billionth purchase,” here.