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One More Thing

The G4 Cube, Airport technology, the iMac G4, the 12″ PowerBook, iTunes for Windows, the G5, the iPod mini, Safari for Windows, the first MacBook Pro, the iPod…

Here comes the eMac

In April 2002, Apple renewed its attention to the educational market with a new, exclusive Macintosh model. Building upon the success of the iMac, engineers and designers in…

The Mac OS Anthology

Introduced on the stage by Steve Jobs during the May 1999 WWDC Keynote, the “Mac OS Anthology” was a collection of many Mac OS operating systems to aid…

A Mac in Graffiti Bridge

There’s a Macintosh in Prince’s 1990 Graffiti Bridge movie. It can be seen twice: at the beginning, during the first scene, and again at the end, during the…

A touch of (shuffle) green

The first three generations of the iPod shuffle are a good example of how Apple keeps evolving and reinventing its products and yet strives to maintain a sense…

Jonathan Ive, Senior Vice President of… funny faces

Offered without comment. You can see all of the screenshots I managed to make (so far) of Mr. Ive’s peculiar expressions at Flickr.

Get unwired (and play) with Airport

The Airport technology was introduced in 1999 but only during the following year Apple managed to have all of the Macintosh line officially capable to use WiFi networking….

There’s more to Apple than that

At the end of February Pete Warden tweeted about Apple letting go forty people from the Final Cut Pro teams in LA and Austin. Although the news was…

Braeburn Capital, Apple’s fruitful reserve

The braeburncapital.com url redirects to Apple’s main website, apple.com How come?Who is this Braeburn Capital and what relationship does it have with Apple? Some of the answers come…

The other new features of Mac OS 9

The most touted feature of Mac OS 9 was the new Sherlock 2 but there were lots of other new features, mostly related to the development and coming…

The October 2009 MacBook: bye bye, Firewire

MacBook (May 2006) USB: 2 2.0 Firewire: 1 MacBook (Late 2006) (November 2006) USB: 2 2.0 Firewire: 1 MacBook (Mid 2007) (May 2007) USB: 2 2.0 Firewire: 1…

The “Fat” Mac

On September 1984 Apple released the follow-up to the Macintosh, addressing one of the major complaints of potential buyers. Sold for USD 3,300 (or 3200, according to some…

Dylan sues Apple

In the summer of 1994 folk singer Bob Dylan sued Apple for trademark infringement. The musician was seeking to bar the company from using his name in conjunction…

The 68k->PPC transition and Snow Leopard: comparing apples to oranges

In “Snow Leopard: Party like it’s 1998” there’s an attempt to quell the outcry of Mac users for Apple dropping PowerPC support in Snow Leopard by recalling the…

From 25 to 75 millions users

At the WWDC 2009 Phil Schiller, Apple’s SVP of Product Marketing, announced thatthe Macintosh has experienced an explosive growth and even more did the number of OS X…

The birth of the iPod Division

At the end of May 2004, Apple’s organization underwent a major shakeup. Three years after the introduction of its digital player, the Cupertino company created a new iPod…

The Lombard Ad: words in motion

The launch of the Macintosh PowerBook G3 “Lombard” in 1999 marks a new stylistic direction for Apple television ads and animated movies. The use of typography is a…

Is the 1 billion App Store downloads counter real?

Apple actually adjusted its much-publicized counter to better reflect the status of the downloads on the App Store in iTunes. Here’s a browser window with the billion-app counter…