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Apple’s 1987 promo video for “Knowledge Navigator”
Below is an Apple produced film from 1987 which takes a look at what the personal computer of the future might look like. The software here is called “Knowledge Navigator.” While some of the features are a bit silly, the video does showcase some technologies that are pretty similar to features available today, such as […]
Continue reading...Apple I Schematic [Photo]
Sunday, July 19, 2009
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Ever wonder what the Apple I schematic looks like? Well wonder no more.. Click below to enlarge the picture.
Continue reading...Steve Jobs on the meaning and importance of Computers [Video]
Saturday, July 18, 2009
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This is an old but timeless clip of a young Steve Jobs, who was then the CEO of NeXT, talking about how computing is a “bicycle for our minds.”
Continue reading...The Newton MessagePad – Inspiration for the iPhone [Photos]
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
You can’t help but notice the design similarities shared between the Newton MessagePad and the iPhone. Below, check out photos of the 2 devices side by side. For each product, simplicity is the design. As an aside, when discussing what it was like to type on the iPhone before the device actually went on sale, […]
Continue reading...The place where it all got started – Steve Jobs’ garage
Thursday, June 18, 2009
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Birthplace of the Apple I, Steve Jobs’ garage was where it all got started over 30 years ago. Earlier this week, Brazillian based Apple blog MacMagazine hit us up with some info about a trip they took to California to go on what seems to be a tour of Jobs’ places of residence, old and […]
Continue reading...Checking out the new iPhone on IE 5, running on an old Powerbook G3 [Photo]
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Talk about getting some bang for your buck. This guy is using a Powerbook G3 from 1998 to check out the new iPhone 3G S on Internet Explorer 5. Funny to think that that IE 5 was the de-facto Mac browser for quite some time.
Continue reading...The first ever TV commercial for Apple [Video]
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
This might be the first TV commercial for Apple that ever aired, well sort of. It’s for an Apple II, but the 1977 ad was produced by High Technology Inc. Anyways, its atrocious no matter how you look at it, and funny enough, the narrator for the commercial seems like he was the inspiration for […]
Continue reading...Jon Rubenstein wasn’t keen on an iPhone-like device in 2005
Monday, June 8, 2009
Seeing as how the Palm Pre has been the focus of the tech world as of late, there have been quite a few write-ups about former Apple executive and current Palm director Jon Rubenstein. Throwing our hat into the ring, we came across this quote Rubenstein gave to a German newspaper in September 2005. When […]
Continue reading...Bringing Apple’s culture to Palm
Friday, June 5, 2009
Bloomberg has an interesting article about how Jon Rubinstein infused a bit of Apple’s culture into the development process of the Palm Pre. Rubenstein, of course, spent over 20 years with Steve Jobs, 9 of which were at Apple, and was an important part of the team that helped developed the original iMac and the […]
Continue reading...If you would have bought Apple Stock instead…
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
If you’re reading this blog, the odds are fairly high that you’ve bought a number of Apple products over the years. A desktop here, a laptop there, maybe a few iPods.. well you get the idea. But what if instead of making a particular Apple purchase, you used that money to buy shares of Apple? […]
Continue reading...Old Apple Newton Ad
Thursday, May 21, 2009
By today’s standards, this commercial for the Newton is beyond boring. But if you’re curious, the ad is called “Intelligence by Newton”, and it might make the few remaining Newton die-hards swell up.
Continue reading...Old Apple ad captures the swinging lifestyle of the 70’s
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Apple advertising sure has come a long way. Long before Justin Long and the infamous dancing iPod silhouettes, there was a naked guy just hanging out in the jungle, equipped with only an Apple II to hide his shame. The following ad is from 1980, and interestingly enough, we called the 800 number listed below, […]
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Monday, July 20, 2009
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