An odd and equally fascinating story from the recently released Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple’s Success, a book by former Chiat/Day advertising director Ken Segall. Segall worked closely with Steve Jobs for many years, and while his new book aims to impart many of the business lessons he picked up while working on a […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Comments Off on A thinner Phil Schiller and a mustachioed Jony Ive introduce the Power Mac G3
Back in the day, Steve Jobs would routinely handle all of the MC duties during Macworld and special event keynotes. But in the years preceding his passing, other Apple executives such as Phil Schiller and Scott Forstall began making more frequent cameos during these special events. By now, most Apple fans are quite familiar with […]
Continue reading...Friday, March 23, 2012
Comments Off on When Steve Jobs tried to hire Linus Torvalds
In a profile on Linus Torvalds, you know, the creator of Linux, Wired relays an interesting piece of information, namely that Steve Jobs many years back tried to recruit Torvalds to work at Apple. Torvalds has never met Bill Gates, but around 2000, when he was still working at Transmeta, he met Steve Jobs. Jobs […]
Continue reading...Friday, March 16, 2012
Comments Off on What Regis McKenna told Steve Jobs in the wake of iPhone 4 antennagate
The antenna problems associated with the iPhone 4 were largely overblown. Nevertheless, the ongoing media frenzy that surrounded the iPhone 4 back in the Summer of 2010 was so negative that Apple was forced to act – and it did by offering free bumper cases to all iPhone 4 users. The reality is that customer […]
Continue reading...Friday, January 13, 2012
Comments Off on The first Apple phone… from 1983
In the pantheon of revolutionary tech products, there’s no doubt that Apple’s iPhone holds a special spot. But believe it or not, the iPhone wasn’t really the first phone to come out of Apple. And no, we’re not talking about the lackluster Motorola ROKR with iTunes. Following up on reports of the massive Apple historical […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Comments Off on Stanford’s Apple collection provides a rare glimpse into early days of Apple [Video]
Not being one prone to nostalgia, Steve Jobs, upon taking over Apple in 1997, famously tossed out mountains of Apple historical memorabilia. As the story goes, Jobs explained that it’d be impossible to move the company forward and prepare for the future if they remained hung up on the past. Within a few days, Stanford […]
Continue reading...Friday, December 16, 2011
Comments Off on Apple’s founding documents sell for over $1.3 million at auction
Apple founding documents, drawn up by former Apple founder Ron Wayne, was auctioned off earlier this week at a Sotheby’s auction where they ended up selling for an astonishing $1.35 million. That’s quite a premium from the $70,000 original asking price, and well over the $150,000 the documents were expecting to sell for. The winning […]
Continue reading...Friday, December 9, 2011
Comments Off on Computer History Museum unveils online Steve Jobs exhibit with extremely rare video of Jobs circa 1980
Just when you thought you’d seen everything there was to see about Steve Jobs, the Computer History Museum – located in Mountain View, California – yesterday announced a new online Steve Jobs exhibit that traces Jobs’ life from his early days in Palo Alto all the way up to his unparalleled second act as Apple […]
Continue reading...Monday, November 28, 2011
Comments Off on Original Apple contract from 1976 may yield $150,000 at upcoming auction
Before the release of Steve Jobs biography, it was a little known fact that Apple was actually founded by three individuals. Of course, there was Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, but the third co-founder was a man named Ron Wayne. Wayne initially met Jobs while the two were employed at Atari in the late 70’s. […]
Continue reading...Friday, November 11, 2011
Comments Off on Brian Lam recounts his interactions with Steve Jobs following the stolen iPhone 4 scandal
Gizmodo temporarily became a household name during the Spring of 2010 when they published photos of, what was then, an unreleased iPhone 4. In the days that would follow, the saga would become increasingly bizarre and seemingly lifted out of a $.10 novel. Caught in the middle of the brouhaha was Brian Lam, a Gizmodo […]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 30, 2011
Comments Off on Steve Jobs was “depressed and annoyed” following bevy of iPad complaints
Though the iPad has quickly ushered in a new era of tablet computing, its initial introduction didn’t capture the imagination of the public in the same way that the iPhone struck a chord with consumers the instant they saw in action. Commenting on this in the newly released Steve Jobs biography, Walter Isaacson relays that […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Comments Off on The Apple Extended Keyboard – everything Steve Jobs hated about Apple
There is no shortage of Steve Jobs anecdotes coming in from former friends and colleagues of the Apple co-founder, but this one from venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson really captures the mindset of Jobs and exemplifies the strategy he used to help bring Apple back from the brink of bankruptcy to technical prominence. Moreover, it paints […]
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Sunday, April 29, 2012
Comments Off on Steve Jobs wanted to dress up as Willy Wonka to celebrate 1 millionth iMac sale