Category: Apple History
The World’s Largest Collection of Rare Apple Prototypes⇢
Hap Plain has amassed one of the largest private collections of rare and unreleased Apple prototypes. His collection of more than 250 prototypes includes iPhones, iPads, Macs and pretty much everything in between. He has even turned his hobby into a thriving eBay business, selling one of his rare prototypes for more than $16,000. But this isn’t about the money for Hap. He only sells prototypes if he owns multiple copies, and he uses the money to buy more rare pieces to add to his collection.
10 Years of App Store Changes⇢
Yours truly, writing at MacStories:
The App Store, Steve Jobs said, would put large and small developers on an even playing field, and would put their apps in front of every iPhone user on the planet.
Ten years later, this idea has completely changed our world. To mark the occasion, I walked through every version of the iOS App Store over the last decade.
MobileMe’s Legacy
This week marks the 10th anniversary of MobileMe,1 Apple’s third attempt at a cloud service designed for consumers.2 The service has a pretty rough reputation, but to understand why, we need to talk about the product itself and what went wrong.
Exchange for the Rest of Us
At WWDC 2008, Phil Schiller showed MobileMe to the world for the first time.
The pitch was rather simple. MobileMe was “Exchange - for the rest of us.”
Apple Marks 10th Anniversary of the App Store⇢
When Apple introduced the App Store on July 10, 2008 with 500 apps, it ignited a cultural, social and economic phenomenon that changed how people work, play, meet, travel and so much more. Over the past decade, the App Store has created a safe place for users of all ages to get the very best apps and a vibrant app economy for developers of all sizes, from all over the world, to thrive. Today, customers in 155 countries are visiting the App Store more often, staying longer and downloading and using more apps than ever before.
Original Retina MacBook Pro now Vintage⇢
- This machine gave birth to a very good line of laptops.
- We should all feel old reading this.
How Far Does 20 Mhz Go Today⇢
Chris Wilkinson at Ars Technica is doing the Lord’s work:
I stumbled across a gem: a Macintosh IIsi. Even better, the old computer was for sale along with the elusive but much desired Portrait Display, a must-have for the desktop publishing industry of its time. I bought it the very next day.
It took me several days just to get the machine to boot at all, but I kept thinking back to that article. Could I do any better? With much less? Am I that arrogant? Am I a masochist?
An Interview with Andy Hertzfeld⇢
I really enjoyed this. Andy is a nerd hero of mine.
The Last of Its Kind: The Power Mac G5⇢
Yours truly, over on MacStories:
In every way, the Power Mac G5 was more than the G4 it replaced. It was bigger, more expandable and faster.
Of course, we know the trouble that came with that power — the inability to ever ship a G5-powered notebook. Even with that cloud hanging over it, this tower brought a lot to the table worth talking about.
The 2013 Mac Pro, Five Years Later
On June 10, it will have been five years since Apple first showed off the iteration of the Mac Pro that has come to be known as The Trashcan.
To put that in a little context, it was the same WWDC keynote where iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks were introduced.
Introduction and Release
This section of the keynote wasn’t a full-blown product introduction, but rather a tease of what was to come:
Late 1980s Apple Promo Videos⇢
I just came across this YouTube Playlist of Apple promo videos from the late 1980s. There are a bunch of gems in here, including this one:
Mac OS X Era Now as Long as Classic Mac OS⇢
Here’s a bit of numerology for you. Today marks 17 years, one month, and 29 days since Mac OS X 10.0 was released on March 24, 2001. That’s a strangely odd number—6269 days—but it also happens to be the exactly length of time between January 24, 1984 (the launch of the original Macintosh) and March 24, 2001.
In other words, today the Mac’s second operating system era, powered by Mac OS X (now macOS) has been in existence as long as the first era was.