On January 9, 2007, once again eclipsing the entirety of CES, including Bill Gates’ keynote, Apple’s Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone in an extraordinary, even for him, presentation…
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Apple CEO Tim Cook to receive award from Ireland’s Prime Minister
Ireland’s decision to present Apple with an award may raise some eyebrows. Although it’s one of the country’s biggest employers…
Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais roasts Apple in CEO Tim Cook’s face
During last night’s Golden Globe Awards, in which the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show had three nominations…
Decade in Review: What the smartphone has wrought
When the first Apple iPhone hit the market in 2007, not everyone was convinced it would supplant the flip-phone…
How Apple’s push to rule the smartphone industry has made Apple Store employees feel like robots
In recent years, Apple Retail Store employees have started to feel like the culture and spirit of the Apple Store has deviated…
The ingenious way Steve Jobs led design reviews at Apple
Never surprise Steve Jobs. Bob Baxley learned this lesson quickly in his former role as director of design…
Phil Schiller and Walt Mossberg recall the birth of Apple’s revolutionary iPad
We were sitting on the couch, and on the coffee table there was something covered in black cloth…
The iPhone Decade: How Apple’s revolutionary iPhone created and destroyed industries and changed the world
In the last 10 years, Apple has gone from a large computer company with a profitable side business in MP3 players to a $1 trillion+ megacorp with operations around the globe and 137,000 full-time employees…
Cellphone-related head injuries became more common after Steve Jobs released the iPhone
As cellphones got smarter, they also became marginally more dangerous to the clumsy, easily distracted humans holding them…
Macintosh floppy disk signed by Steve Jobs sells for $84,115 at auction
A Macintosh floppy disk signed by Steve Jobs has been sold at auction for $84,115.00 (includes buyer’s premium)…
How Apple’s revolutionary iPhone devastated the world’s happiest nation
This piece tackles the critical role Nokia once played in Finland’s economy and the devastating impact Apple’s iPhone had on both…
Macintosh floppy disk signed by Steve Jobs up for auction
Macintosh System Tools Version 6.0 floppy disk, signed in black felt tip, “steve jobs.” In fine condition…
Former Apple employee on how he accidentally stole Steve Jobs’ MacBook from his office
Apple’s former vice president of mobile advertising Andy Miller shared an incredible story about accidentally stealing Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ MacBook…
30 years ago, Steve Jobs pulled off an extraordinary comeback – here’s how he did it
Although Steve Jobs had unique vision and the ability to inspire, he could also be overbearing, impatient, and downright rude…
Steve Jobs shared secrets of Apple’s iPad but nobody listened
Jobs didn’t just unveil the iPad as a new product in 2010. He talked at length during the media event…
Steve Jobs’ legacy? Across the board, scores drop in math and reading for U.S. students
Math and reading scores for fourth- and eighth-graders in the United States dropped since 2017, and the decrease in reading achievement…
Former Apple lawyer in charge of preventing insider trading indicted for insider trading
Gene Levoff, who was a senior director of corporate law in charge of enforcing Apple’s Insider Trading Policy, was aware of Apple financial results before they were public…
Forthcoming book to focus on Apple after Steve Jobs
Tripp Mickle will write an as-yet-untitled book for William Morrow about the iPhone maker’s last decade since the death of co-founder Steve Jobs in 2011…
The Apple icons you see today have surprisingly ancient roots
In the early 1980s, Apple asked a young artist named Susan Kare to design some graphics for its forthcoming personal computer, the Macintosh…
The post-Steve Jobs product keynotes: From true command to shock-and-awe to vaporware risk
If you’re anything like me, when you see the phrase “Product Keynote” you still think of one thing: an Apple event with Steve Jobs on stage….
Apple CEO Tim Cook does not get the credit he deserves
Steve Jobs stepped down from being Apple’s CEO on August 25, 2011, and Tim Cook replaced him. It would be impossible to fill Jobs shoes…
Today is the eighth anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death
The most precious resource we all have is time…
Ashton Kutcher: Don’t follow Steve Jobs’ fruitarian diet
Ultimately, Kutcher was told that he was suffering a pancreas issue due to all the carrots he had eaten…
What is Tim Cook’s net worth?
By 2019, Tim Cook was earning a $15.6 million yearly compensation package at Apple, with $3 million earned as salary and $12 million earned in bonuses…
Starbucks wins, Fiat loses, Apple kept guessing in EU tax grab rulings
Starbucks Corp. won a court fight and a Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV unit lost one over European Union tax orders in decisions…
Apple may get clues about its chances of winning tax case of the century
Apple has been arguing its case at the European Union’s General Court to topple a record 13 billion-euro ($14.3 billion) EU tax order…
Apple’s VP of communications, Steve Dowling, is leaving after 16 years with the company
Dowling previously was Apple’s head of corporate public relations for 10 years. During his tenure, the tech giant has dealt with everything from…
Disney CEO Bob Iger remembers Steve Jobs: ‘We felt we could say anything to each other’
In January 2006, I joined Steve Jobs in Emeryville, California, to announce Disney’s acquisition of Pixar…
Apple and Ireland blast European Commission’s ‘fairy story’ behind $14 billion EU tax grab
Apple accused the European Commission of misunderstanding its business on day two of the iPhone maker’s appeal against a $14 billion tax order…
Apple slams EU as epic court battle over $14 billion tax clawback commences
Lawyers for the world’s biggest company faced EU officials in the Luxembourg court, challenging a decision that CEO Tim Cook slammed at the time as “total political crap” with no basis in law…
Apple says $14 billion EU tax clawback ‘defies reality and common sense’
Apple is appealing to Europe’s second highest court to overturn the European Commission’s 2016 ruling that it pay the record sum of over 13 billion euros to Ireland…
Apple takes fight against $14.4 billion EU tax grab to court
Apple is expected to send a six-man delegation headed by Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri to the two-day court hearing…
Pixar poster signed by Steve Jobs sells for $31,250 at auction
Measuring 24 inches-by-36 inches, the poster features the main characters Woody and Buzz, voiced by Tom Hanks and Tim Allen in the groundbreaking computer-animated work…
Unix at 50: How the OS that powers iOS and Android started from failure
Maybe its pervasiveness has long obscured its origins. But Unix, the operating system that in one derivative or another powers nearly all smartphones…
New photograph triggers conspiracy theorists to claim Steve Jobs is alive and hiding in Egypt
An eerie snap of a Steve Jobs lookalike has sparked bizarre conspiracy theories that the Apple genius is alive and hiding in Egypt….
Apple stops selling $300 ‘Designed by Apple in California’ coffee table book
Welcome to the post-Jony Ive Apple. The sumptuous, immaculately photographed and printed Designed by Apple in California coffee table book is no longer available for sale on Apple’s website…
Apple to fight EU’s $14 billion tax grab in European court next month
Since 2016, both Apple and Ireland have been denying the merit of the European Union’s tax clawback…
How Apple’s revolutionary iMac changed computing forever
In 1998, Ken Segall, an employee at Apple’s L.A. ad agency TBWA\Chiat\Day, came up with the name “iMac” and pitched it to Steve Jobs…
The story of the iMac is the story of Apple
The iMac been transformed over the years, and Apple’s aims for it have changed too, but the sole item on sale in 1998 that you can still buy today is the iMac…
Why Steve Jobs rejected the first Apple Card
If you’ve got your Apple Card, or when you get it, makes sure you change your payment method for Apple services like the App Store, iTunes Store, iCloud, and more…
Apple Card casts a wide net, accepts applications from users with less-than-stellar credit scores
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs “had an aversion” to rejecting any of his customers for the card…
Why Steve Jobs was the best at public presentations
There’s no question Steve Jobs was extraordinarily good at product introductions…
