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Codenamed “Centossa”, the Apple IIsi was the swan song of the Apple II line: dating back to the first half of 1988 and envisioned as an heir of…
On the 16th of March 1999 Apple announced Darwin, the open source core of Mac OS X. While the product was actually released more than a year after,…
Babelfish was a technology part of the ill-fated Apple-IBM Taligent project in the early Nineties. Totally unrelated to Yahoo!’s translation service but sharing the same Douglas Adams reference,…
Ten years ago, on the 4th February of 1989 Apple Corps, the Beatles-founded holding company and owner of their record label Apple Records, sued Apple Computer for the…
Let’s take a look at Apple’s Quarterly financial Reports on the iPhone, straight out of their press releases archive (I’ve put numbers in bold): June 2007: Apple Reports…
Written by Steve Hayden and Lee Clow, produced by Chiat/Day and directed by Ridley Scot with a budget of 900.000 USD the “1984” Macintosh spot was “officially” shown…
The Macintosh is an important tool for musicians Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman of Prince fame. In the last years the artistic duo has been hard at work…
There are many misconceptions about the Macintosh before the arrival of Mac OS X. One of them is the absence of a shell, a command-line interface. Although it…
On the 30th of November 2003 Apple opened its first retail store outside the United States, as Owen Linzmayer and Bryan Chaffin promptly note on the “This Week…