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-Cupidtino founders
October, 2011
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Oct 11
Dress up like Steve for the price of an iPod touch
All men are created equal and then they get dressed!
We just ordered a pair of blue Levi’s 501 jeans, New Balance 991 sneakers and a black mock turtleneck t-shirt to pay a tribute to Steve. Those black mock turtleneck t-shirts were specially designed by Issey Miyake, a personal friend of Steve Jobs and are hard to find (only a hundred or so were made – all for Steve), so we had to replace them with a different brand. That black turtleneck t-shirt is a masterstroke from Steve. It mocks those suits, ties and collars littered throughout corporate America.
All three items cost less than $249, the price of a 32GB iPod touch. Here’s where we got ours -
Make your own style statement!
-Cupidtino founders
(image from Wikipedia)
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Oct 11
Who should play Steve Jobs in the movie?
The moment we saw Mark Zuckerberg’s character portrayed in The Social Network, we couldn’t help but wonder as to who would play Steve Jobs, when they make a mainstream movie on his profound life. We are eagerly waiting for his officially endorsed biography to be released later this month. Sony recently acquired rights to make a movie from that book and we can’t wait for that movie to be released! Any actor who attempts to portray Steve Jobs’ intense and complex personality in a compelling way would need to have a strong offscreen personality as well. Top five actors who could do justice to Steve’s role are:
1. Edward Norton
2. Hugh Laurie
3. Tom Hanks
4. Noah Wyle
5. Daniel Day Lewis
Vote for your favorite on our facebook.com/cupidtino. Our favorite is Ed Norton!
-Cupidtino founders
(Images used under creative commons – Wikipedia)
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Oct 11
Fierce competitors Microsoft and Google paid classy tribute to Steve Jobs
Steve’s biggest rivals acknowledged his role in changing the world and paid classy tribute to him.
1. Microsoft: In addition to personal condolences from Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, Microsoft lowered its flags until Friday at all their buildings worldwide. Such an honor is typically reserved for a president. Our respect for Microsoft increased twofold today.
2. Google: In their minimalistic style, Google removed all links from their home page and added a link to Steve Jobs’s tribute page on Apple.com
Many entrepreneurs, leaders and artists whose life were dramatically changed by Steve’s influence paid tribute in their own way. We loved the homepage of Frog Design (which plainly said “Thank you for everything, Steve.” Our favorite was from Pixar, with a touching message from John Lasseter and Ed Catmull.
RIP Steve.
-Cupidtino founders
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Oct 11
Five most interesting posts on Steve Jobs from yesterday
We’ve picked five most interesting posts on Steve Jobs from yesterday’s flooded interwebs.
1. Steve’s fiercest competitors and industry leaders react to the news: Ironically, Gizmodo wrote the best coverage of reactions from various leaders, so we’ve chosen their post and image as the most interesting post. http://gizmodo.com/blockquote/ Most remarkable reaction was from his lifelong rival – Bill Gates, who said “The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come.”
2. Walt Mossberg’s reaction, a video comment and a classy encounter between Jobs and Gates: Walt has reviewed Apple products for over two decades. He wrote a personal and classy post about his interactions with Steve. This section from his post makes it one of the most interesting post:
“Ice Water in Hell
For our fifth D conference, both Steve and his longtime rival, the brilliant Bill Gates, surprisingly agreed to a joint appearance, their first extended onstage joint interview ever. But it almost got derailed.
Earlier in the day, before Gates arrived, I did a solo onstage interview with Jobs, and asked him what it was like to be a major Windows developer, since Apple’s iTunes program was by then installed on hundreds of millions of Windows PCs.
He quipped: “It’s like giving a glass of ice water to someone in Hell.” When Gates later arrived and heard about the comment, he was, naturally, enraged, because my partner Kara Swisher and I had assured both men that we hoped to keep the joint session on a high plane.
In a pre-interview meeting, Gates said to Jobs: “So I guess I’m the representative from Hell.” Jobs merely handed Gates a cold bottle of water he was carrying. The tension was broken, and the interview was a triumph, with both men acting like statesmen. When it was over, the audience rose in a standing ovation, some of them in tears.”"
3. Steve Jobs and the reserved seat: Cult of Mac interestingly pointed out that the first seat in the first row at the Apple event was left “reserved” at yesterday’s announcement by Apple. From the post – “I don’t know for sure if that seat was left empty for Steve or not, but I can only imagine that it had to have been. In a way, that reserved seat summarizes the core of who Apple is as a company and group of people.”
4. National Public Radio calls Steve Jobs a poet of the computer world: NPR’s radio show – All Things Considered- said “Long before the MacBook and the iPad, the Apple co-founder and former CEO dreamed that computers could be used to help unleash human creativity.”
5. Bynkii compares Oct 5th, 2011 to Nov 22, 1963 (JFK’s death): John Welch goes on to say – “I kind of think I now have a grip of what folks must have felt on 22 Nov. 1963. It’s not the same of course, but it’s close. This guy who shaped an industry, shit, shaped THREE…who helped change the world not once, not twice, but three times. Four if you count the iPad. And now, between one minute and the next, he’s gone.”
It still hasn’t sunk in.
-Cupidtino founders
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Oct 11
A celebration of Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs inspired us to take a distinctively simple and elegant approach towards life. We started Cupidtino to celebrate that approach towards life by connecting people with others who share those same values of simplicity, perfection, delight and elegance.
Upon hearing the shocking news of his death earlier today, we asked ourselves – “What would Steve do?” The answer was deceptively simple. Steve would not mourn his death, but rather celebrate his life.
Today, we are starting a never-ending celebration of his life and hundreds of millions of lives he continues to inspire. We are dedicating our blog and its content to that celebration. a phrase he often used just before dispensing awesomeness to the world – “one more thing.”
Unlike any other website or blog, we will toil mercilessly to discover and share the celebration of a lifestyle inspired by Steve Jobs and the products he gifted to the world. We will feature those real-life crazy ones who look life in the face and live it fully.
We miss you Steve.
-Cupidtino founders
October 5th, 11:55 PM