Steve Jobs

When things really started to get off was when Steve Jobs stood up and said: Now you can get Internet in your pocket," said Opera's chief financial officer, Erik Harrell. The iPhone has opened the eyes of operators for revenue potential of Web browsers and I think Google has done the same."

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"When things really started to get off was when Steve Jobs stood up and said: Now you can get Internet in your pocket," said Opera's chief financial officer, Erik Harrell. "The iPhone has opened the eyes of operators for revenue potential of Web browsers and I think Google has done the same."

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"We are especially amused at how blase Steve was, especially considering the controversy around Apple Records and the name of the iPhone," he said. In January 2007, Apple was sued by Cisco Systems over the use of the "iPhone"

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"He is presentable and charismatic although he still has a distance to go from Apple's Steve Jobs," said an analyst who covers the company. "He has a sellable story, but whether he can deliver remains to be seen."

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"When things really started to get off was when Steve Jobs stood up and said: now you can get Internet in your pocket," said Erik Harell, chief financial officer of Norwegian mobile browser firm Opera Software. Joep van Beurden, chief executive of chip firm CSR said smartphone market volumes would grow around 20 percent this year. "There is strong momentum in smartphones,"

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Although Apple CEO Steve Jobs "has been specific in saying that he's not getting into the netbook business," she noted that there is also a significant "gap in Apple's product line between the high-end iPod and its lower-end laptops." Given that opening and the market activity, she said, "the likelihood of Apple not doing anything in this space is infinitesimally small."

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Jobs said: "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

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His legacy: Jobs has said: "My model for business is The Beatles.

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"This letter is to serve as a DEMAND for payment," he wrote Jobs. "Otherwise I will seek legal recourse for the immediate cease and desist from the manufacture, marketing, and sale of all the iPOD, iTunes, and Iphone lines; along with pursuing damages from the products sold to date, unjust enrichment caused by the theft, enforcement of the agreed 2% gross revenues on all sales, and any other applicable damages or compensation."

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A year ago, Steve Jobs said that he had no interest in joining the hot netbook market because Apple "doesn't know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk, and our DNA will not let us ship that."

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