Shriver’s strong support throughout the controversy was seen as critical to her husband’s victory. Though it surprised some, she told an election crowd: “I know I would not be where I am today without his support.” And in 2003, her brother, Bobby Shriver, who is now a Santa Monica councillor, warned: “You cross Arnold and Maria will cut your head off.”
- Terminator: And this time it’s personal, SMH.com.au, May 14, 2011.
2. If John Appleseed’s name doesn’t ring a bell, let us do some jangling for you. He’s the face you saw demoing the original iPhone, and in demos of subsequent iPhones, too. His face beamed out from the dashboard when Tim Cook showed off iOS in the car, and it’s his name you often see when Apple demos new software.
Appleseed’s connection with Apple goes back to the start of the 1980s. Apple then was a very different company than it is today: it became a public company in 1980 but wasn’t a buttoned-up, blue-suited corporation like IBM; it was a blue-jeaned, open-necked shirt, bearded kind of company out to make a difference. Apple was Steve Jobs’ and Steve Wozniak’s baby, but the firm’s CEO back then was Mike Markkula, who Jobs had lured out of retirement with the promise of Apple’s potential.
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Take a look at the TextEdit icon in OS X. If you blow it up or zoom in on the graphic to read the writing on the pad, you’ll see that it's a note to Kate from John Appleseed. “Here’s to the crazy ones,” it says. “The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.”
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