Just a day after Apple revealed its iPhone 4s, co-founder Steve Jobs passed away. Whether you’re an Apple fanatic or not, if you’re under the age of 40, Jobs probably changed your world. Even if  you carry a Zune, chances are you wouldn’t have an mp3 player at all without the iPod. What would all those Android phones be without the iPhone? And then, of course, there is the iPad… Without Steve Jobs we’d all still be reading news at our desktops, and we wouldn’t have an “app for that.” CNN reports:

“Steve Jobs is one of the great innovators in the history of modern capitalism,” New York Times columnist Joe Nocera said in August. “His intuition has been phenomenal over the years.”

Jobs’ death, while dreaded by Apple’s legions of fans, was not unexpected. He had battled cancer for years, took a medical leave from Apple in January and stepped down as chief executive in August because he could “no longer meet (his) duties and expectations.”

It’s a big week for Apple. Not only did Steve Jobs announce the availability of the iCloud yesterday — which wasn’t much of a surprise — but it’s also gearing up to start taking 30% of in-app purchase revenues in a few weeks. With that in mind, some publishers have been fighting back.

As Apple was closing deals with major record companies to allow for the streaming of music from iCloud, The Financial Times was working on the release of its new web app. According to the press release:

The Financial Times has today launched a new, faster and automatically updating app available directly through a web browser at app.ft.com. The FT is the first major news publisher to launch an app of this type, which will allow readers to access its award-winning journalism easily and quickly across a broad range of tablet and smartphone devices. As part of the launch, the new FT Web App will provide free access to FT content during launch week. (more…)