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Caroline Rose joined the Mac Team at Apple in June 1982. Although she didn’t appear in any official pictures, interviews or promotional material of the time, her pivotal…
This is the second part of Stories of Apple’ interview with Dan Crow, who was originally hired by Apple to work on AMT (Apple Media Tool) but stayed…
Some years ago I came by two packaged and unopened copies of a little known software sold by Apple. Called Apple Media Tool, it was a competitor to…
If you click on the About menu item under System 6, on the right you can see a list of names: Larry, John, Steve, and Bruce. These are…
At the World Wide Developer Conference of 2008 Apple made a small but significant move in the naming of its operating systems, removing the “Mac” prefix from Mac…
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…
On October 22, 1999 Apple launched Mac OS 9, its major new release of the Macintosh operating system. The last boxed edition of the “classic” Mac OS line…
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…
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…
On the 10th of May 1999, during the WorldWide Developer’s Conference (WWDC), Apple introduced the PowerBook G3 Lombard and Mac OS 8.6. Although both have been overshadowed by…
On the 19th of May 2004 Avie Tevanian, then Apple Chief Software Technology Officer told a technology conference that Apple would slow the pace of its operating system…
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,…
In January, 2004 Apple introduced a new addition to the the iLife software suite, GarageBand. After programs for managing music (iTunes), digital pictures (iPhoto), home moviemaking (iMovie) and…
On Jan. 5, 1999, during the Macworld Expo, Apple announced Mac OS X Server as its’ new server operating system offering, which was declared to combine “the proven…
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…
In 2001 Apple was still at the beginning of its slow transition from the Mac OS 9 era into the X one and also building up what would…
Nota: l’intervista è disponibile anche in una versione tradotta in italiano su Storie di Apple.it At the MOCA2008 “hacker camp” in Italy I had the pleasure to meet…