On Tuesday, the Steve Jobs Archive shared never-before-seen footage of 28-year-old Jobs speaking at the 1983 Industrial Design Conference in Aspen, Colorado. Job’s speech, which was somewhat prophetic at the time, focused on the future of computers and how they would change daily life. The Archive was launched in 2022 by Laurene Powell Jobs, Tim […]
Today marks the 40th anniversary of Steve Jobs unveiling the Macintosh, which would be the first successful mass-marketed computer with a graphical user interface. The original Macintosh, released in 1984 introduced and popularized the computer mouse, allowing for a new type of navigation that was still a novel concept to most people at the time. […]
It was probably Apple’s most famous security breach in the company’s 47-year history, and it was at least partially fueled by alcohol. On Thursday, March 18, 2010, a drunk Apple software engineer named Gray Powell left an iPhone 4 prototype on a barstool inside Redwood City’s Gourmet Haus Staudt beer hall. This seemingly innocuous act […]
After 20 years, Apple is finally discontinuing its iPod lineup. The move comes with the company officially discontinuing the iPod touch, which will be available only “while supplies last.” As such, the “iPod” brand will be officially retired, as the iPod touch was the last iPod in Apple’s lineup. The first iPod touch was introduced in 2007 […]
Following up on last week’s story about a rare Apple-I up for auction, the auction is complete, and the computer sold for $400,000, which was bumped up to $500,000 after the 25 percent buyer’s premium. Of the 200 computers made, 50 of them were sold through ByteShop as bare boards that required customers to add […]