Just Days Until Our #Ohm #Music @AppStore release

After months of intense design work, we finally pulled the trigger on submitting our 1.0 Beta release to Apple’s App Store (more improvements to come shortly after!). Ohm Music is a music player app that we hope will take your on-the-go music listening experience to the next level. We’ve build in a number of improvements such as a dynamic queue to quickly build playlists on-the-go, gesture controls, playlist artwork and colors, and sleek artist collection pages to make  your existing iPod music library both more beautiful and more useful to you.   If all goes well we hope it will be out come mid next week. meanwhile, we’ve attached a few screenshots just to get you excited.. stay tuned!!

PS- if you have an Android phone, we’ll be releasing a very similar update on or around the same day, so no worries you will not be left out in the cold! :)

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#Samsung Galaxy S II (The Next Big Thing) Commercial

#Ohm Labs develops for both companies, #Apple and #Google, so we don’t have a public dog in this fight. Nonetheless, it is a clever commercial. CLICK THE PIC to see the new commercial.

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Steve Jobs Was Preparing for War With Google

(From RT.com)
Before he passed away earlier this month, Apple CEO #SteveJobs was unable to carry out his last and perhaps biggest plan ever: a war with #Google. According to a copy of Walter Isaacson’s upcoming biography of the Silicon Valley superstar obtained by The Associated Press, Jobs was out to destroy the search engine giant who in recent years had unleashed Android, the main competitor to Apple’s iPhone operating system. “I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong,” Jobs is quoted as saying in the forthcoming book. “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product,” he says. Think Jobs was bluffing? How’s this for harsh: “I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.” CLICK THE PIC for the original video of Edwin Starr singing his famous song: “War”. Originally written under the Motown label, and first perform by The Temptations, “War” was later re-released as a single with Edwin Starr as vocals. This version is considered a more emotional version and has become the most popular pro-test song ever. FOLLOW THE LINK for the full RT.com story.

http://rt.com/usa/news/steve-jobs-war-google-437/

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A lot of great videos of this genius have been surfacing and this is one of my favorite yet. Hard truth from the man that took a struggling company and literally saw it become the world’s most valuable company in his lifetime. #thankyouSteve

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These two Tufts grads put together this inspiring Steve Jobs Tribute Can’t say #ThankyouSteve enough

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24 Hours without Apple products: My hand-written tribute to Steve Jobs

As one of our final tributes to Steve Jobs of the week this letter comes directly from one of our founders Cameron Drake

I want to provide a little context to this letter, even though it pretty much explains itself. When I first read the news of Steve Jobs passing I was on my iPad in class. I was surprised not by the news itself but that no one else in the lecture hall noticed. I was sitting in a lecture series entitled Entrepreneurial Thought Leadership in the basement of Huang. I wanted to immediately shout it out the moment that I heard it feeling that it was too urgent news not to share. I waited until the floor was open for questions and immediately threw my hand in the air. 

The moderator called on me. This class is fully recorded with area microphones and a half a dozen HD voice sense cameras, one of which turned towards me as I began to share the news of the Silicon Valley icon passing away. At this point I was breaking the news to what I would assume was about 85-90% of the lecture hall that had 300+ people in it, if I’m judging by the buzz that went through the room after the announcement. What followed was a moment that cannot be adequately described, but which was luckily captured on video and resides somewhere on Stanford servers. 

David Friedberg, CEO of Weatherbill (soon to be renamed) had just concluded a brilliant, stark, honest presentation on the realities of entrepreneurship, and the insights of his great experience. The question caught him completely off-guard (for which I apologized to him afterward), but he responded with something very simple, very short and somehow I knew that’s all Steve would have wanted. I do not have the skills with words to convey the emotion in the room, so I am counting on Stanford University to make that footage available.

As soon as the lecture was over I shut down all of my Apple products in tribute to Steve Jobs, borrowed some notebook paper from a math major and penned this letter to the wizard of silicon valley. I have not transcribed this message, but my handwriting is not that bad so deal with it.

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So the minute I heard this news I immediately thought, @aplusk prepare for the major picture role of your life.

Sony Pictures is in the process of making a ‘hefty’ deal for the feature rights to the upcoming biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, reportsMike Fleming of Deadline.

Upon reading this I immediately put the pieces of the puzzle together. Sony grabs Sorkin and and Kutcher and shoots a mega movie that takes home Oscars for all. Too soon? I don’t care.

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Steve Jobs…Rock Star

#SteveJobs will always be known as Silicon Valley’s first rock star. He built a company that created an almost religious following and was a true innovator and creator. We thank him for challenging us to “Think Different”. Sadly, he passed away this afternoon due to complications from pancreatic cancer. Our condolences go out to his family. For Mr. Jobs, CLICK PHOTO to hear a live version of Bob Dylan’s “Knocking on Heaven’s Door”, his favorite artist.

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Earlier today Apple announced the release of the latest model of its popular iPhone, the iPhone 4S. At first glance many people will be disappointed, considering that most people were hoping for a thinner wider iPhone 5. However, when you give this new phone a closer look it is clear that this is not merely an incremental step like the 3GS, but a revolutionary device. Of the features included these are the real game changers:

1. World Phone- By utilizing both CDMA and GSM technology the iPhone has the unique ability to work with both mobile standards. This means that the user can more easily switch between carriers with this device which was not possible with older models. The phone is also available on Sprint now. Giving the consumer more options is always a good thing.
2. Faster, Brighter Camera- As a photographer my biggest gripe with the iPhone camera has always been the very slow reaction time (by the time I opened the camera and pressed the shutter the moment has passed). It looks like Apple has focused on solving this problem, although the phone will undoubtedly be slower than the shutter on my DSLR, so there’s still a ways to go. Also of note, this camera will have a wider aperture which should improve it in low light situations, but don’t get so excited about the 8 megapixels. Any photographer will tell you that more megapixels doesn’t mean a better picture, but a larger file. You should however be excited for 1080p video!
3. Siri- Watson for all. The personal assistant feature is probably the flashiest part of the announcement today and I am sure that the entire blogosphere is preparing to put this technology through the paces. If this technology is a success this could be a very important step in technology, since creating a program to understand language is still on all tech visionaries top 3 wish-list.
4. Faster, Bigger- The phone is expected to perform startling better than the iPhone 4, even mimicking 4G download speeds. Of course this all depends on the performance of networks, which in the short term is not going to improve, so my guess is that the difference will be negligible to the consumers naked eye. Apple also introduced a 64GB model, which is music to the ears of those users for whom 32 gigs just wasn’t enough.

Will you be purchasing the iPhone 4S?

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Steve Jobs resigns from Apple. Check out video “1984.”

#SteveJobs the CEO of #Apple has been on medical leave for an undisclosed condition since January 17, and will be replaced by COO and longtime heir apparent Tim Cook.

“I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come,” he said in a brief letter announcing his resignation.

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