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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…
Today is the 10th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death
Today marks the 10th anniversary of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ death. Jobs died at his Palo Alto, California home on October 5, 2011…
Steve Jobs once threw a prototype iPhone across a room full of reporters
Months before Apple’s iPhone went on sale in June 2007, a little after Steve Jobs unveiled the “Jesus Phone” in January 2007, Apple’s CEO…
Apple CEO Tim Cook to get $750 million payout this week
Apple CEO Tim Cook will this week collect the 10th and final tranche of the pay deal, worth some $750 million, that he received a decade ago…
Apple stock loses ‘wow factor’ without Steve Jobs
It’s been exactly 10 years since Steve Jobs resigned as Apple’s CEO. And Apple stock definitely lost much of its wow factor in the S&P 500…
Apple II manual signed by Steve Jobs sells for $787,483 at auction
After garnering 46 bids, an Apple II manual signed by Steve Jobs and Mike Markkula sold for $787,484 at auction this month…
Steve Jobs’ final visit to Kyoto
Steve Jobs was particularly fond of Kyoto and over the course of 25 years, he got to know the ancient Japanese capital well…
Steve Jobs email confirms Apple mulled tablet Mac, 15-inch MacBook Air in 2007
An internal email written by late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs that was made public as part of discovery in Epic v. Apple and highlighted by…
Four U.S. Congressmen: Apple is ‘a pawn in China’s malfeasance’
Four U.S. Congressmen have accused Apple of being “a pawn in China’s malfeasance” by risking users privacy in the CCP-controlled country…
Tim Cook’s Apple is built in China; now it has to answer to the Chinese Communist Party
Tens of thousands of apps have disappeared from Apple’s App Store in China over the past several years, more than previously known…
Steve Jobs called Facebook ‘Fecebook’ in newly revealed email
Internal Apple emails show the company was battling with Facebook for at least a decade. In the emails, Jobs calls Facebook, “Fecebook.”
Steve Jobs personally shot Desktop Pictures for Mac OS X Leopard
Steve Jobs personally shot several of the images presented as desktop pictures for 2007’s Mac OS X Leopard …
