Back in May, when Steve Jobs was still the CEO of Apple, I opined that the best thing Steve Jobs created was not the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone or the iPad, but Apple itself, the insanely great technology company.

Steve Jobs

There have been many great tributes to SJ, but I particularly liked with one by Jeff Bezos. He said something to the effect of: “Steve created three companies in his lifetime, the first Apple before he was ousted, Pixar and the Apple he resurrected when he came back to an almost bankrupt company”. When you think deep about it, you find how profound an impact SJ in fact had. He helped launch the PC industry, helped create one of the most profitable film genre of recent years (computer generated animated films), changed the music industry, changed the telecommunications industry and was leading us into the post-PC industry. If this is not super-human, I don’t know what is. All the while he made it look easy. Which is a true mark of a magician.

The remarkable thing here is that it takes a different kind of persons to create a startup, then turn it into a well-oiled functioning profitable machine and eventually run a public company. SJ did this 3x over and ended up creating the most successful technology company the world has ever seen.

Think of it this way, the impact SJ had in his 35 years career almost equals the impact Alexander Graham Bell, Walt Disney and Jack Welch (also created the biggest publicly traded company during his tenure) have had spanning multiple lifetimes and careers.

Can’t wait for Walter Isaacson’s official Steve Jobs biography.

Apple is one of the companies about which there are not many internal case studies. From the outside, of course, we can see the ways in which they build and market products, but there is very little known in terms of how they can operate like a 50000 employee strong startup. The Kindle Single, Inside Apple — From Steve Jobs down to the janitor: How America’s most successful – and most secretive – big company really works, tries to provide some insight.

Steve Jobs’ best creation is not the iPod, iPhone or even the iPad, but it’s in fact, an organization that can repeat the same process over and over again. As Steve himself likes to point out, “I wasn’t alive then, but from everything I’ve heard, Babe Ruth only had one home run. He just kept hitting it over and over again.” And that’s what it’s about, find your home run and hitting it over and over again.

This was a very happening week at ZENTITY. First DSL.CZ launched end of last week and become the top app within two days in the Czech App Store, and then today Novinky.cz, which we built for the largest Czech portal and search engine Seznam.cz, launched and become a runaway hit reaching top position within a couple of hours. The team has shown once again that in terms of application quality and innovation they are unmatched in this region.

Download Novinky.cz FREE at: http://itunes.apple.com/cz/app/novinky-cz/id430326937?mt=8

Download DSL.CZ FREE at: http://itunes.apple.com/cz/app/novinky-cz/id430326937?mt=8

It’s been hard to keep up with blogging. There is so much going on at ZENTITY, that we can hardly breath. It’s been a little over a week since iPrší was launched. Our primary markets for this game are Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. The App has some tough competition from other great game launches like DOOM, Dark Nebula and Crazy Machines, but iPrší did made it to #1 App in Top Charts of the iTunes for both the Czech and the Slovak markets. The team has shown once again that they can pretty much win at will at this point

Obviously we are not done yet, the game needs improvement and we hope to launch an update with a complete graphics overhaul very soon. STAY TUNED!

Apple just approved Prifacy, an iPhone app that helps users make complete sense of their Facebook privacy settings.

While testing the app with real users we discovered how poorly understood the Facebook privacy settings are. Users were extremely surprised to find out everything they had been sharing without having any clue if they actually agreed to any of it.

Prifacy swings the pendulum back to users, who in our view should have a complete control over their privacy online.

Prifacy uses simple and easy to understand color codes to denote the level of potential threat depending on the current privacy settings. Users can drill down and on the most detailed level, the user can decide to change the settings by pressing lockdown button.

Prifacy is a first step toward giving users the tools to understand and fill the gaps in all things privacy online.

Grab it from the app store at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/prifacy/id377970403?mt=8.

Here is a sneak peek -

Touch Carrom and ZENTITY covered in LiveMint a Hindustan Times and Wall Street Journal publication in India. Here is the article as it appears in print:

Touch Carrom became the first ever official iPhone game of a Bollywood film (Striker).

This is an exciting partnership, which helps us to bring a world class gaming experience to traditional Indian games. This is the first integrated movie and gaming experience and we believe that it will be an important trend. Studio 18 are truly an innovative partner to work with.

Thank you all who helped us get Touch Carrom this far and you know there is a lot more to come.

Touch Carrom: Striker Edition is available at: http://itunes.apple.com/app/touchcarrom/id337993724?mt=8

Touch Carrom gets its own home page at http://touchcarrom.com. Please let us know what do you think at http://www.zentity.com/contact.html.

We at ZENTITY thank all Touch Carrom players and fans for their continued support! There is a lot more to come.

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