The talk about Steve Jobs resigning as CEO continues, but what I find most interesting is how well Apple and Jobs handled this transition. There has been no major drop in Apple’s stock price and the consensus is that Apple is in good hands with Tim Cook. I’ll start today with three Steve Jobs-related articles that are worth reading, and then move on to the rest of the iPhone and iPad news of the week:
- First, Casey Newton of the San Francisco Chronicle interviewed some famous Apple alumni to get their take on Jobs.
- Second, Alan Deutschman (author of the book The Second Coming of Steve Jobs) wrote this cover story for Newsweek.
- Third, moving from big publications to tiny publications, Lisen Stromberg wrote an article in the Palo Alto Patch called My Neighbor, Steve Jobs which provides some insight into Steve Jobs not as the CEO of Apple, but instead as just a regular father. You know, considering that Newsweek sold last year for only $1.00, the Palo Alto Patch may be actually worth more than Newsweek.
- South Carolina Attorney John Martin writes about e-discovery implications of company employees using iPads in this article for Corporate Counsel.
- The DOJ is moving to block AT&T’s merger with T-Mobile, as reported by the Dealbook blog of the New York Times.
- As many folks discovered in unlikely places such as New York, Boston and Vermont, it is hurricane season. Andy Ihnatko, a Boston resident who writes for the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote an article with disaster preparation advice for you and your digital devices.
- Amber Singleton Riviere of GigaOm recomends iOS apps to help you go paperless.
- New Orleans attorney Ernest Svenson describes Adobe’s new iOS app in an article with a title that gives away the ending: “Adobe’s new iOS PDF app is lame.”
- Stewart Wolpin of NBC writes “It’s an iPad World and We Just Live In It.”
- Robert Frank of the Wall Street Journal writes that millionaires love the iPad.
- Eli Milchman of Cult of Mac reviews six different styluses for the iPad. My current favorite stylus, the Kensington Virtuoso Stylus for Tablet, for some reason was not included in that stylus roundup.
- And finally, this video is about two months old, but there is something strangely mesmerizing about watching The Pope use an iPad. It looks to me like this is the first time that His Holiness had either used an iPad or seen Twitter: