Today is the 39th birthday of Apple’s indomitable Macintosh. Thirty-nine years and two day ago, on January 22, 1984, during the Super Bowl…
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Apple’s Lisa personal computer turns 40
Forty years ago today,, a new type of personal computer was announced that would change the world forever: The Apple Lisa …
Apple falls off Glassdoor’s 100 Best Places to Work list
Glassdoor has released its 100 Best Places to Work report of 2023, but, for the first time in over a decade, Apple is absent from the list…
In major reversal, Apple preps touch-screen Mac
Apple engineers are actively working on producing a touch-screen Macs for the first time, people familiar with the efforts…
Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone on this day 16 years ago
16 years ago (gack!), Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the revolutionary (Jobs was actually underselling something this time) iPhone – it’s an…
15 U.S. state attorneys general demand that Apple, Google raise TikTok to ’17+’ age rating
A group of 15 Republican U.S. state attorneys general demanded on Tuesday that executives at Apple strip TikTok of its age rating that…
Steve Jobs’ old Birkenstocks fetch $218,750 at auction
This weekend, Steve Jobs’ brown Birkenstock sandals, which were expected to bring in some $60,000, sold for a whopping $218,750 at…
Jony Ive talks life after Apple
The chief designer behind Apple’s most iconic products, Jony Ive, reveals how his design philosophy guides collaborations…
Original Apple iPhone in factory-sealed box sells for more than $39,000
On Sunday, an auction house in Louisiana sold an original Apple iPhone in factory-sealed box for $39,339.60…
Tablecloth doodled on by Steve Jobs’ favorite band and his former lover was stolen 56 years ago. Now, it’s resurfaced — and is about to go up for sale
A tablecloth that was doodled on by The Beatles and Steve Jobs’ former lover and promptly stolen 56 years ago has resurfaced…
Today is the eleventh anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death
Today marks the 11th anniversary of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ death. Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday tweeted about Steve Jobs…
Had Microsoft not sold its $150 million in Apple stock, it’d be worth over $120 billion today
Nearly 20 years ago, Microsoft sold its Apple Stock for $550 million, leaving some $120 billion on the table…
Tim Cook still runs Steve Jobs’ 9 a.m. Monday meeting every week
Cook said he’s maintained Steve Jobs’ traditional 9 a.m. Monday meetings for Apple’s top executives to discuss the company’s biggest issues…
Apple CEO Cook credits Steve Jobs for prioritizing user privacy
Apple CEO Tim Cook credited Steve Jobs with making privacy a top priority for the company and said he largely still runs the company…
Steve Jobs addresses what went wrong with America’s schools on Fox News
On his program Thursday, Fox News’ Jesse Watters shared Apple founder Steve Jobs’ 1995 interview on what went wrong with public schools in…
Eve Jobs still has her dad Steve’s vintage Apple T-shirt
Eve Jobs, the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs, has a growing collection of vintage Apple T-shirts, including one very rare tee…
Apple CEO Tim Cook: The Mac is now a totally different product
Popular Mechanics Ryan D’Agostino sat down with Apple CEO Tim Cook and discussed the Mac in the era of Apple Silicon, your right to…
Steve Jobs’ Apple-1, hand-soldered by Woz, auctioned for nearly $700K
An authenticated Apple-1 computer prototype from the mid-1970s, used by Apple co-founder and hand-soldered by Apple co-founder…
Issey Miyake, Japanese designer of Steve Jobs’ mock turtlenecks, dead at 84
Japanese designer Issey Miyake, who produced the signature black mock turtleneck of friend and Apple founder Steve Jobs and famed for…
Apple-1 prototype owned by Steve Jobs, and hand-soldered by Woz, hits auction block
A prototype Apple-1 computer – “Apple Computer A” – that was owned by none other than Steve Jobs is up for auction currently…
Apple ends design consulting agreement with Jony Ive
In late June 2019, Apple announced that Jony Ive, Apple’s then chief design officer, would officially depart the company as an employee…
Apple’s ex-corporate law chief pleads guilty to years of insider trades
The corporate lawyer who was once responsible for enforcing Apple’s insider trading policy pleaded guilty, ironically, to illegally trading…
After Steve Jobs’ death, dysfunction ran rampant within Apple’s design team
Not unsurprisingly, given Steve Jobs’ intense interest in hardware design, dysfunction ran rampant within Apple’s design team after Jobs…
Apple’s Safari browser surpasses 1 billion users milestone
According to the findings by the Atlas VPN team, 1,006,232,879 internet users (19.16% of all internet users) now use the Safari browser…
Apple poised to emerge from downturn even stronger and more powerful
Flush with cash, Apple and other “Big Tech” firms are positioned to emerge from an economic downturn stronger and more powerful…
Steve Jobs used his vacation time to pepper Apple staffers with questions
As with most endeavors, even Steve Jobs’ vacations differed from most people. He used his “downtime” to step outside the Apple box to…
Rare Apple-1 computer expected to go for over $250,000 at auction
A rare Apple-1 computer is up for auction. The Apple-1 was the first product created by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak when the…
Why Steve Jobs picked Tim Cook as his successor
Steve Job, who once described Tim Cook as “not a product guy,” nevertheless picked Cook as his successor for his…
Apple’s relationship with Hollywood goes back nearly 40 years
Apple’s historic Best Picture win for the film “CODA” has shined the spotlight on Apple TV+ and Apple’s growing link to Hollywood, but…
Apple celebrates 46th birthday
Today, April 1, 2022, Apple celebrates its 46th birthday! Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976…
Rare Steve Jobs items hit the auction block
Items from the birth of Apple, including a check signed by Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, are up for auction, which will…
Today is the 67th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ birth
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955. Today would have been his 67th birthday, had the co-founder of Apple Inc. had not succumbed to…
Check signed by Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak up for auction
A bank check dated July 15, 1976 specially made for the “Apple Computer Company” and signed by both Apple founders Steve Jobs and Woz…
New book: ‘After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul’
From The Wall Street Journal’s Tripp Mickle,”After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul” tells the untold story…
Happy Birthday, Apple Macintosh!
On January 22, 1984 during the Super Bowl, Apple ran their famous “1984” commercial. The voice-over intoned…
Bob Iger: Apple and Disney would have merged if Steve Jobs lived longer
Iger noted that he never spoke with Steve Jobs about a potential merger of Apple and Disney, but he believes the deal likely would have…
Apple builds new team to bring more wireless chips in-house
Apple is in the process of building a new team of engineers for a new office in Southern California to develop wireless chips that could…
Joel Podolny, longtime dean of Apple University, leaves for startup
Joel Podolny, the longtime dean of Apple University, the company’s in-house management training school, left Apple to join a startup…
26 years ago, Pixar’s IPO made Steve Jobs a billionaire
26 years ago, the initial public offering of Pixar made Steve Jobs, who owned upward of 80% of the company, a billionaire…
iPod inventor, Tony Fadell, looks back as iPod turns 20
The man who would go on to become known as “The Father of the iPod” initially balked at the idea. “I was like, ‘whoa whoa,'” Fadell…
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency bites Snap’s ads business, shares drop 25% as revenue fall short
Snap on Thursday fell short of revenue estimates as the owner of photo messaging app Snapchat said Apple’s App Tracking Transparency …
Michael Dell: Apple innovation ‘certainly different than what Steve would have done’
On October 6, 1997, in response to the question of what he’d do if he was in charge of Apple, Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell stood before…