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As Apple’s WWDC has just come to a close, the dust might start to settle but the debates aroundthe latest Apple announcementsare far from over. Some say Apple is changing everything again (and again). Others fight strongly to prove that iCloud is nothing new or that iTunes Match is a missed opportunity to jump from buying music to renting it in the Age of Access. But what really struck me this year was the absence of Steve Jobs’ legendary “one more thing” during his keynote....

Despite taking medical leave, Steve Jobs took the stage at today’s big Apple event in San Francisco. He looks thin, but healthy enough to get in a few zings at Amazon and Google in the first 15 minutes. With 200 million accounts between App Store, iTunes, and iBooks, Jobs has a reason to feel good. “The iPad is something that has to be held, something that has to be touched,” says Jobs....

Shortly after Steve Jobs resigned as Apple’s CEO Thursday, stories began pouring in across the web about what this means for the future of Apple. The instinct of some has been to sentimentallyrecall their personal interactionswith him, some have taken to eulogizing as if he was dead, not just moving positions. Yet others have predicted doom for the company as they feel that too much of what made Apple successful is in Jobs’ head....

While I have already pre-ordered my copy of Walter Isaacson’s upcoming biography of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, I was never all that impressed by its name. That’s why I’m happy to see that its name has been changed from ‘iSteve: The Book of Jobs‘ to something more dignified. According toFortune, the new title of the book is ‘Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson‘. That’s much nicer and seems much more fitting for a bio of one of the world’s most intriguing and influential CEO’s....

This is Steve Jobs’ last public appearance where he pitched the Cupertino City Council with the construction of a new ambitious space ship like campus for Apple,detailed here. Without intending to blindingly look for positives in everything Jobs has done, or in this case attempted to do, it is wonderful that a man that most likely knew he was in the last year of his life was still so heavily involved in planning for the years ahead at Apple....