Earlier we brought you a photo of President Obama talking with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, posted to the official White House Flickr account.
A new photo has been uploaded showing all of Obama’s guests at the dinner, including Apple’s Steve Jobs, who is pictured sitting to the left of the President at the meal.
Jobs is currently on medical leave from Apple amid speculation about his health and appears slightly gaunt, as demonstrated in the photo below:
Interesting to see that Steve Ballmer didn’t get an invite (update: here’s why). Oh, how we wish we could have been a fly on the wall.
glad to see my hero out and enjoying dinner. oh, and obama’s wearing a wife-beater, always ready for “go time”…
@Jeff Cormier Your hero is Larry Ellison?
@rurikbradbury no. geez. i’m a fan of the chef. from what i understand it was Iron Chef Bobby Flay. :)
@Jeff Cormier Eric Schmidt did the cooking — but he copied the recipes from Zuckerberg and Costolo, and it turned out really badly.
@rurikbradbury you win. awesome response!
glad to see my hero out and enjoying dinner. oh, and obama’s wearing a wife-beater, always ready for “go time”…
Steve Ballmer doesn’t live in Silicon Valley.
I’m sure that the seating arrangement was carefully thought out. I love that he chose to sit next to Apple and Facebook. But isn’t that a snub of Google? ;-)
@Robert Scoble Perhaps this means the Feds will not clamp down on Apple’s new monopolistic subscriptions policy, but will take a tougher line on Google privacy overreaches. ;-) It’s like Kremlinology.
@Robert Scoble Yes, it didn’t dawn on me they were all Valley residents.
Schmidt and Bartz sit at similar points, equidistant to Obama. Google now on-par with Yahoo? :)
Steve Ballmer doesn’t live in Silicon Valley.
I’m sure that the seating arrangement was carefully thought out. I love that he chose to sit next to Apple and Facebook. But isn’t that a snub of Google? ;-)
@Robert Scoble
@Robert Scoble
Schmidt and Bartz sit at similar points, equidistant to Obama. Google now on-par with Yahoo? :)
Zuck has a shirt on…. nice.
Zuck has a shirt on…. nice.
@Jeff Cormier
@rurikbradbury
@Jeff Cormier
@rurikbradbury
can’t help but wonder what Zuck must be thinking… I know I’d be pinching myself.
can’t help but wonder what Zuck must be thinking… I know I’d be pinching myself.
I presume the menu consisted of Chicken Bytes & Chips with Black iPeas followed by Baked Apple™ Pie?
Twitter – Joe_McKay
I presume the menu consisted of Chicken Bytes & Chips with Black iPeas followed by Baked Apple™ Pie?
Twitter – Joe_McKay
Microsoft’s boss was last at the White House a few days ago, an event which was predictably overlooked by certain websites:-
http://twitter.com/edbott/status/38379369286074368
Notice that Microsoft didn’t make such a fuss about it, neither did their supporters. There were no big photo opportunities, and no headlines on websites like this one — it was just business usual.
It’s all too evident that certain tech blogs are so obsessed with [allegedly] trendy Apple and Google, that they routinely ignore important tech news about other companies.
@Tim Acheson FAIL. Do you know TNW already mentioned the Microsoft part?
It’s all too evident that certain people are so obsessed with sluggard Microsoft, that they routinely ignore to read the actual articles.
@obamapacman “Do you know TNW already mentioned the Microsoft part?” FAIL. You’re behind. They mentioned it AFTER this article went out. That’s why it says “update” before the link — because this article was updated.
So Microsoft was only mentioned after the event, and only in light of this event, and only because of this event. On this website, evidently, a story about Microsoft is not considered newsworthy until/unless it can be framed in the context of a story about Google and/or Apple! In this latest case, the Google/Apple story and the Microsoft story are very similar, but the earlier Microsoft story went unreported.
I hope you understand the point, now that it has been clearly explained.
Microsoft’s boss was last at the White House a few days ago, an event which was predictably overlooked by certain websites:-http://twitter.com/edbott/status/38379369286074368
Notice that Microsoft didn’t make such a fuss about it, neither did their supporters. There were no big photo opportunities, and no headlines on websites like this one — it was just business usual.
It’s all too evident that certain tech blogs are so obsessed with [allegedly] trendy Apple and Google, that they routinely ignore important tech news about other companies.
@Tim Acheson
It’s all too evident that certain people are so obsessed with sluggard Microsoft, that they routinely ignore to read the actual articles.
@obamapacman
So Microsoft was only mentioned after the event, and only in light of this event, and only because of this event. On this website, evidently, a story about Microsoft is not considered newsworthy until/unless it can be framed in the context of a story about Google and/or Apple! In this latest case, the Google/Apple story and the Microsoft story are very similar, but the earlier Microsoft story went unreported.
I hope you understand the point, now that it has been clearly explained.
The last supper http://img190.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=33985_jobbb_122_386lo.jpg
The last supper http://img190.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=33985_jobbb_122_386lo.jpg
Steve Jobs, prophet of hope
The last supper http://img190.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=33985_jobbb_122_386lo.jpg
http://jeffreyhill.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d417153ef01287737f5ce970c-popup
http://www.illusionanimation.com/steve_jobs_moses.jpg
Steve Jobs, prophet of hope
The last supper http://img190.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=33985_jobbb_122_386lo.jpg
http://jeffreyhill.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d417153ef01287737f5ce970c-popup
http://www.illusionanimation.com/steve_jobs_moses.jpg