“Apple turns 40 today. To celebrate, the company is giving a wink to longtime fans with a cheeky nod to its past,” Luke Dormehl reports for Cult of Mac.
“A pirate flag flying outside Apple’s campus at 1 Infinite Loop is a reference to the ‘Jolly Roger’ pirate flag flown by the original Macintosh team when it was developing Apple’s (arguably) most iconic computer back in the heady days of the early ’80s,” Dormehl reports.
“Today, Apple is no longer an underdog in the same way it was decades ago,” Dormehl writes, “but it’s nice to see the company reference its past for this significant birthday.”
#jollyroger @ #apple pic.twitter.com/X6mpBw74A4
— tommy farley (@twfarley) April 1, 2016
A better angle. For those who don’t know: it’s Apples 40th anniversary on April 1st. pic.twitter.com/6qlvuHe6Sn
— Mohammed Jisrawi (@mjisrawi) April 1, 2016
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MacDailyNews Take: Happy 40th, Apple!
It’s better to be a pirate than join the navy. – Steve Jobs
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Happy 40th birthday, Apple! – April 1, 2016
Is there anyone left at Apple who might have been in the original secret Macintosh development group that the pirate flat belong too?
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Pirate_Flag.txt
Yes, Chris Espinosa is still there, and Bud Tribble returned to Apple shortly after Steve did.
-jcr
Keep the flag up, until they can move into their new building, or until the FBI and DOJ leave them alone, and the battle is won.
One of the skull’s eyes is the rainbow Apple logo – so the flag is a throwback in more ways than one. This is a welcomed acknowledgment of the company’s storied past.
No, Apple flying the pirate flag is Tim Cook’s cynical method of attempting to ingratiate himself with long term Apple designers and users. Cook is using the flag to promote himself as a member if the old guard at Apple although he has nothing in common with those who developed the first Macs. Cook is using a symbol of the past to suggest he is just like the early founders at Apple. Forget it, Tim, you aren’t like the old guard. Not even close.
It seems obvious that you don’t know anything about Tim Cook’s history with Apple. His ‘piracy’ in setting up the supply chains are legendary with those in big corporations. He is a true master in his own right who has propelled Apple forward more than any single product Apple has made. Without him, the iPhone and its processor would never have kept up to the demand. Read about things before you spout off.
Tim Cook couldn’t shine Jobs’ shoes.
Dead men do not need their shoes shined.
Tim Cook couldn’t shine Jobs’ shoes then, now, or ever? Satisfied?
If you have any recollection of Apple’s checkered history in terms of operations performance, you’d acknowledge the step change improvement of several orders of magnitude that Cook brought to the role as COO.
I can remember high-end Macs being released in the Eighties and early-Nineties and there being no stock in the channel in the days of Spindler and I would have difficulty picking his COO and the management team under them out of a line-up.
On top of that, Cook now runs a company with a more complex product matrix than Spindler, Amelio or Sculley or – no disrespect intended – Steve Jobs; Macs – both prosumer and pure pro – iPhones, iPads, iPods, Apple Watch and TV, plus a host of content and application channels for music, video, books, apps and news. Cook’s operations philosophy enables a network of 475-odd stores in 17 countries to be properly stocked with product, as well as ensuring that ‘competitive’ third-party outlets – such as the stores of Apple’s various network partners for iPhone and companies like CurrysPCWorld here in the UK – can be stocked in line with their needs whilst Apple barely has any inventory sitting on its books.
Jobs himself anointed Cook as his successor recognising that great products are pointless if someone doesn’t ensure that there is product coming out of factories in line with cost predictions and demand, getting it into logistics and then ensuring it’s on a shelf for someone to buy.
There is a reason that Apple under Cook – either as COO or CEO – gets such high ratings for supply chain management; it’s because the guy is a genius and he surrounded himself with people who could continue his philosophy when he got to the top spot. The fact that you don’t recognise the contribution that he has made to Apple as a company says a lot about why so many businesses when they have great ideas but poor execution.