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30 years ago, Apple was the same company⇢
MG Siegler points out that the more things change, they more they stay the same.
Apple reports Q1 results⇢
Business Wire:
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 first quarter ended December 28, 2013. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $57.6 billion and quarterly net profit of $13.1 billion, or $14.50 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $54.5 billion and net profit of $13.1 billion, or $13.81 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 37.9 percent compared to 38.6 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 63 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
Dark Sky 4.0 ships⇢
While I’ll miss the old UI, Dark Sky 4.0 brings Forecast.io data into the app, which is a major win.
On Steve Jobs and Macworld⇢
Roman Loyola:
A few weeks after Steve Jobs posed for the cover of the first issue of Macworld, he changed his mind. He didn’t want to be on the cover anymore.
So David Bunnell, the founder of Macworld, used one of the oldest tricks in publishing: He lied about the magazine going to the presses.
Original Macintosh team gathers to celebrate 30th anniversary⇢
Husain Sumra:
Last night, over 100 members of the original Mac team gathered to celebrate the Mac’s 30th anniversary in De Anza College’s Flint Center, where Steve Jobs first introduced the Macintosh 30 years ago. The event was focused around three separate panels: the conception of the Mac, the building of the Mac and the third-party developers who built software for the Mac.
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Every Friday, I have lunch at the same Mexican restaurant with a handful of guys. One is the IT director for a local school, one is a retired photographer and professor and another helped operate one of the first Apple dealers in this part of the country.
Every Friday, we talk about Apple, photography, tech news and more. It’s a great way to round out the week, and (as a self-proclaimed Apple historian) it’s endlessly fascinating to talk about how Apple and its platforms have changed over the years.
Apple’s Macintosh history font⇢
Well, this is going to be fun to play with.
iFixit tears down original Macintosh⇢
Apple celebrates 30 years of Mac⇢
With all the retrospectives I expected today, I didn’t think we’d see one from Apple itself.
‘The Mac keeps going forever’⇢
Jason Snell:
The Mac’s path over the last 30 years has hardly been a straight one. Under the surface, the operating system that runs it is completely different from the original, thanks to Apple’s acquisition of Next (and, oh yeah, Steve Jobs) in 1996. It debuted as a desktop computer, and now more than two-thirds of all Macs are laptops.
In his article, Snell interviewed several Apple executives, including Bud Tribble, Apple’s Vice President of Software Technology. Tibble worked on the original Macintosh team, and said:
Leading the Way⇢
The 1980s were a weird time for tech companies.