Dennis Ritchie, Co-Creator of Unix and Founder of C, Has Died

Dennis Ritchie, Co-Creator of Unix and Founder of C, Has Died

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iOS 5 Tethered Jailbreak Is Already Out Using Redsn0w

iOS 5 Tethered Jailbreak Is Already Out Using Redsn0w.

for the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad, and iPod Touch.

Scott Forstall, the Polarizing Genius Behind iOS, is the mini-Steve Jobs

Forstall comes across as the Once and Future Apple—a reminder that the company is more than one man, its a philosophy both technical and industrial that its torchbearers can either work together to nurture, or watch flicker out due to corporate infighting and jealousy

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Aqua, OS X Leopard, the Mac-minded philosophy iOS, and the App Store are all children of Forstall’s vision.

Forstall was behind or involved in several key iPhone-related patents, and he’s likely the most important person at the company behind Tim Cook and Jon Ive. He’s also the closest approximation to Steve Jobs currently working at Apple:

In many ways, Forstall is a mini-Steve. He’s a hard-driving manager who obsesses over every detail. He has Jobs’s knack for translating technical, feature-set jargon into plain English.