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You Can Live Without Apple's New iPhone. But it's getting harder to live without the App Store.

Farhad Manjoo — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:05:46 +0000

By Farhad Manjoo, Technology Columnist, Slate.com

I didn’t go to Apple’s (AAPL) Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday expecting a revolutionary new iPhone. That’s a good thing, because I didn’t see one.

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Key Not: Why the Jobs-less Apple WWDC Signals Trouble

David Lidsky — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:06:42 +0000

By David Lidsky, Senior Editor, Mansueto Ventures

Wow, there’s two hours of my life that I won’t get back anytime soon. Today’s epic bore of a keynote address at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference signals the problem that Steve Jobs has created as the designated showman/face of Apple.

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Apple Has No Comment on Steve Jobs Health Rumors

Eric Savitz — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:35:23 +0000

By Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron’s

A spokeswoman for Apple (AAPL) today said the company was not going to respond to rumors and speculation about the health of CEO Steve Jobs. Four years ago, Jobs had surgery for pancreatic cancer. The spokeswoman would not discuss speculation that he may have had a recurrence.

Concerns about Jobs cropped up on Monday following his keynote address at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. As I noted in a post on Tuesday, Jobs looked to some observers to be unusually thin.

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Is Steve Jobs OK?

Eric Savitz — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:44:21 +0000

By Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron’s

Is Steve Jobs healthy? A lot of people who watched yesterday’s keynote at the Apple (AAPL) Worldwide Developers Conference worry that Jobs, a survivor of pancreatic cancer, looked too thin, gaunt, maybe unhealthy. Multiple readers wrote to me this morning asking about his appearance yesterday.

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Report: AT&T Limits iPhone Sales to 1 Per Customer

Eric Savitz — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:14:11 +0000

By Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron’s

AT&T is now limiting sales of the Apple iPhone to one per customer, according to a memo to its retail stores published by the blog Boy Genius Report.

Earlier this week, Apple’s online store started listing the iPhone as “currently unavailable.”

Expectations remain high that the company will unveil a 3G iPhone soon, perhaps at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference next month in San Francisco.

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