Current Event #1

Date: 10/29/11

Name: Adi Binyamin

Current Events Journal

Title: Will Steve Jobs’ final vendetta haunt Google?

Author: Michael Liedtke

Source: The Miami Heralds

The topic of the article is: The topic of this article is Google’s Android is stealing the creation of iPhone.

The main idea of the article is: The main idea of this article is Google’s Android is stealing Steve Jobs’ ideas of the iPhone and he’s doing everything he can to prevent that from happening. The main idea is stated.

The author’s purpose for writing this article is to: explain the fight between Android stealing  iPhone creations and how Steve Jobs was shocked that another company stole his ideas after the iPhone was popular for a long time and no one bothered to steal it.

The author’s perspective in this article is objective/subjective (biased) because it showed that Steve Jobs actually fought to save his creation from being stolen, rather than ignoring it. Also, it shows what could happen to companies that steal an invented item that someone made. If you do something wrong, you would always get caught!

The pattern of organization of the article is showing different kinds of ideas in each paragraphs and the reactions Steve Jobs is showing about Google’s Android stealing his iPhone ideas and making a similar device.

The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is to show how Apple was before Google’s Android came in the picture and decided to invent a similar device and how now it’s decreasing the population of the iPhone.

The text features included in the article are pictures that helps readers see the products Steve Jobs had created, how the paragraphs are organized to help readers understand important details about Goggle’s Android stealing iPhone features and the emotional thoughts and beliefs that Steve Jobs is showing to the readers.  It Also shows how Google’s Android is affecting Steve’s career.

This article is about (a summary in your own words) The article is mainly about Google’s Android stealing Steve Jobs iPhone creation and features. It shows Steve’s reactions and how he will not accept the fact of another company stealing his own made up ideas. After that unbelievable occurancy, Steve Jobs career is slowly dropping and costumers are not impressed with the iPhone anymore. At the end, Steve’s hard effort to make Android stop stealing his ideas didn’t succeed, and Android is still taking control over the iPhone features.

The significance (importance) of this article is to explain the problem that goes on in the world and how we don’t realize that it affects a lot of people that basically are the victims of those situations. He wanted to explain readers about a famous iPhone maker and the different problems that are occurring to him at this time.(Also to give readers the heads up that iPhone is having a little bit of difficulties)

What I learned from this article is that companies can be that mean to just steal an invention from a person and take all the credit. I also learned that if you actually take your time to fight for the rights and make sure that your career will be saved, will may not always succeed, but the thoughts of personally doing it will count.

What I liked about this article is that Steve Jobs actually thought: I will let no one steal my iPhone creations even if a serious fight will lead me to it. Most people I know will just stay quiet and will say ohh how much can that person know about my invention. Well I’ll tell you what, people know more than you think!

What I did not like about it is that Google’s Android didn’t even feel bad that they stole Steve’s creations about the iPhone and just ignored him when he talked to them and how he didn’t like the way they stole his ingenious idea.

Who should read this article and why: People that love all those “I” terms( iPhone, Ipad, etc.) should read this article because once they do, they will realize that their favorite technology company is decreasing and they will also be pretty amazed how their hero is doing all his might to make his fans happy with his work.

This article reminds me of (text-to-self)  because I also don’t give up and if someone steals my inventions, ideas, or whatever I did and it’s legally mine, I will do everything I can to make that person forget about stealing my work and even if it gets me into a huge fight, I will do it to make my fans and my career happy and successful!

(text-to-text) A book I read that is also about stealing information is the book The 39 Clues. Dan and Amy are working on a challenge and they’re competing with other people. When Dan and Amy always manage to find a clue, another competitor comes to steal the clue and takes the credit.

(text-to-world)  Companies all around the world are facing different kind of problems like copying inventions and are trying to fight with those people and convince them to stop it and that it’s not fair. Somehow Steve’s hard work and believe didn’t pay off, but if you believe you will ALWAYS achieve!

New vocabulary I learned:

Word	Context clues	Meaning
1. Hypocritical	Criticisms	The one that doesn’t actually posses.
2.Unveiled	Release	Revealed to public.
3.Derision	Across	Mockery.