Sunday, October 30, 2011

current event 1

Title: Will Steve Jobs' final vendetta haunt Google?
author: Michael Liedtke
source:  the miami herald
the topic of the article: Google hopes that steve jobs final vendetta doesn't haunt the internet search from his grave.  
the main idea of the article: There is money problems and competition with big competitive companies.
(implied/stated): implied
The author’s purpose for writing this article is to : inform about Steve Jobs and his ideas about Apple.
The author’s perspective in this article is objective/subjective (biased) because: He is not biased because he is just informing readers about the situation.
The pattern of organization of the article is: climactic
 The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is: because it's telling what happened from least important to most important
The text features included in the article are: the writting under the picture
  This article is about (a summary in your own words): it's about two rival companies, google which owns Android, and apple which owns the iphone. Steve jobs' believed that google stole many features from apples iphone which  they installed in their googles android phones. In 2006 apple and google were in very good relations, until in 2008 after the iphone came out, Google unveiled plans to release Android as a free software that any phone manufacturers can use to compete with the iphone. The iphone is still the most popular, but the android software are being activated by the hundreds of thousands each day. Jobs' said "i'm going to destroy Android because it's a stolen product."
Current Events JournalThe significance (importance) of this article is: the significance is it still remains to be seen whether jobs' words of wisdom or his grievances will leave a bigger imprint on google
What I learned from this article is: There is a big competition between Google and Apple
 What I liked about this article : Learning that there is an Android phone that is similar to the Apple phone. 
What I did not like about it : That there is conflict between two very great companies and always fights.
Who should read this article and why: My family because they love the apple phones and are always trying to find out something new about the iphone. My whole family has an iphone.
New vocabulary I learned: 
Word: Android
Meaning: A brand of software from Google


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