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...delight in disclosing the exact number--bouncing around like crazy on a varnished oak floor, springing 1,024 mousetraps. Or 1,024 butterflies fluttering organically round a Japanese garden where plants sway gently in a breeze you can almost feel on your cheek. It's like watching your first Pixar movie, except you're the director--making butterflies scatter as you move the camera forward...
...directors demonstrated its gratitude. They granted Jobs 10 million stock options, already worth $200 million, and threw in $90 million to purchase and care for a Gulfstream V jet, perhaps to taxi the multidimensional CEO from his desk at Apple in Cupertino, Calif., to his other CEO job at Pixar Animation Studios, a few short miles across San Francisco Bay. "This guy has saved this company," says board member Edgar Woolard Jr., a former chairman of DuPont...
...best thing that ever happened to Apple was Steve Jobs' leaving. His years of exile in the desert--where he founded the doomed NeXT computer system and bought the successful Pixar Animation Studios--filled him with so many great ideas that the Apple he's resurrecting could end up being stronger than the Apple he quit. The effects of his sabbatical are especially apparent in Aqua, the front end to the forthcoming operating-system upgrade known...
...conglomerates, just about every advertisement indicates a potential friend or foe. CNN's parent company, Time Warner, after the AOL merger now controls an immense number of brands, each of which has several competitors whose logos the network could choose to suppress. Will Microsoft now vanish from CNN, and Pixar from Disney/ABC...
...straight on one burning question: After two and a half years, he is no longer the "interim CEO" at Apple. His title is now officially "iCEO" of Apple - that "i," says Jobs, is to "remind myself what is important - the Internet." He will also keep his old responsibilities at Pixar, the computer animation studio that produced the "Toy Story" movies. MORE...