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Steve Jobs: The parable of the stones

A story -- just one story -- from the 1995 "lost interview" showing at theaters tonight

Steve Jobs really turned on the charm for Robert X. Cringely in the newly rediscovered 70 minute interview shot for Cringely's 1996 PBS special "Triumph of the Nerds" and showing in 19 U.S. cities tonight.

My favorite part part is when Jobs answers the question "What's important to you in the development of a product?" with a MORE

Steve Jobs through Rosen-colored glasses

Wall Street's first Apple evangelist -- and the former chairman of Compaq -- reminisces

The 140-word Wikipedia entry on Benjamin M. Rosen hardly does him justice. For more than a decade -- starting in 1980 when he left Morgan Stanley and co-founded Sevin Rosen Management -- Ben Rosen was personal computing's most influential power broker, a visionary financier who backed dozens of high-tech start-ups, including Compaq, Citrix, Cyprus, Lotus, Silicon Graphics MORE

Apple poised to report another record-breaking quarter

Setting the stage for a monstrous Christmas selling season

It's been a busy fortnight for Apple (AAPL), between the Let's Talk iPhone special event, the death of Steve Jobs, the launch of the iPhone 4S and Sunday's star-studded memorial service. Next week we'll get the worldwide laydown of  Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs, the only biography written with Jobs' cooperation, launching another round of media overkill (starting with next Sunday's 60 Minutes).

But today is about MORE

Our Apple whisper numbers

We're averaging the Q4 estimates of the six analysts with the best track records 

The chart at right, which compares Apple's (AAPL) reported earnings for the past six quarters with estimates made in advance of those reports, shows that some analysts are better at predicting the company's results than others.

Specifically, a group of independent analysts we've been calling -- for lack of a better term -- "the bloggers," have consistently out-performed MORE

Apple expected to report record Mac sales this week

On this one, most analysts agree: Summer '11 was even bigger than Christmas '10

The Mac was one of the few products that failed to live up to expectations in the June quarter (Apple's fiscal Q3). Analysts were looking for sales of 4.2 million. What Apple (AAPL) delivered was 3.95 million.

That's not likely to happen again on Tuesday, when Apple reports its earnings for fiscal Q4.

Everybody seems to agree that MORE

Gartner: Mac grew 20 times faster than the PC market in Q3

IDC gives Apple an even bigger edge, with Mac's U.S. shipments outpacing PCs 80 to 1

Tim Cook may not have seen the latest numbers. Or perhaps he's just more modest than Steve Jobs was. But he understated matters somewhat when he told the press last week that the Mac outgrew the PC market almost six times in the year ending in June and that it had outpaced its competitors every MORE

Mac's share of Web traffic hits 13.7% in U.S., 6.45% worldwide

Net Applications shows a 25% increase in Apple's global desktop share in fiscal 2011

"Mac gets back-to-school bump" is the headline of a brief report Saturday in Net Applications' September survey. It notes that Apple's (AAPL) share of desktop usage, as measured by visits to its clients' websites from machines running OS X, rose 0.42 percentage points in September to a record (for Apple) of 6.45% worldwide and 13.7% in the MORE

Survey: 60% of undergrad PC purchases are Macs

But phone and tablet sales are weaker, and 32% brought a TV to school, down from 73%

A relatively small survey from Hudson Square Research -- 158 students in eight U.S. colleges and universities interviewed over the past three weeks -- nonetheless yielded some striking results. According to a note to clients issued Monday by Hudson Square's Daniel Ernst:

69% of returning students said they spent less than last year on technology MORE

Survey: 4% less likely to buy Apple products now that Steve Jobs has resigned

But that's down from 18% three years ago, according to ChangeWave Research

The series of medical leaves that Steve Jobs took before he finally resigned last month seem to have had an inoculating effect on both investors and consumers, allaying their concerns about Apple's (AAPL) future without its co-founder and CEO.

The effect on investors was apparent three weeks ago, when Apple's shares rose in the days after Jobs' resignation.

Evidence of the MORE

Analysts scramble to raise their iPhone and iPad estimates

Hasty revisions three weeks before the end of Apple's last fiscal quarter of the year

It happens every three months. As the end of Apple's (AAPL) fiscal quarter approaches, the small army of analysts that cover the stock dusts off its spreadsheets, finds them overly conservative and starts issuing revisions. If history is any guide, the numbers will be revised again -- upward -- when the company reports its Q4 2011 MORE