Steve Jobs job application valued at $175,000 heads to auction

A rare piece of Steve Jobs memorabilia is going up for auction, with the latest a job application filled out by the Apple co-founder in 1973 that was previously sold for over $175,000.

Malcolm Owen 5 years ago 8

How iTunes went from simple to perplexing — and gone

The app that made it so easy to play music on your Mac that transformed the entire music industry has gone, but the legacy lives on in Apple Music and more. Now that Apple has scrapped the omnibus iTunes app and broken it up into multiple parts, AppleInsider looks at what went so right — and then so wrong.

William Gallagher 5 years ago 40

Steve Jobs will be memorialized in the National Garden of American Heroes

Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs will be memorialized in a National Garden of American Heroes, with a statue of the visionary set to join hundreds of others in the park once it is constructed.

Malcolm Owen 5 years ago 0

Epic 'Fortnite' battles, a last Intel iMac, and $2 trillion — Apple's August 2020 in Review

Apple would have liked you to associate August 2020 with it reaching $2 trillion in valuation, its new iMac launch, or with its Apple Music radio revamp. Unfortunately, it did also get into a little scrap with Epic Games which will take years to resolve in full.

William Gallagher 5 years ago 15

Apple II lid signed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak going up for auction

A lid from an Apple II computer signed by company cofounders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak is set to go up for auction later in November.

Mike Peterson 5 years ago 3

What the PowerPC to Intel transition tells us about Apple Silicon release dates

The past is another country, and the old Apple of a decade and a half ago has been long replaced by the behemoth it's become. Yet, the decisions Apple made over Intel in 2005 are being repeated now — and they give us a guide to what we'll get and when we'll see Apple Silicon Macs.

William Gallagher 5 years ago 60

More than a billion people are using an iPhone today

A new estimate claims that the number of current, active, iPhone users passed one billion in September 2020, fewer than 5,000 days since the first one went on sale.

William Gallagher 5 years ago 10

'Blue Box' circuit board designed by Steve Wozniak to hit auction block

A rare phone-hacking circuit board created by Steve Wozniak and marketed by Steve Jobs will go up for auction with a starting bid of $8,000 to $12,000.

Mike Peterson 5 years ago 7

How Steve Jobs's unorthodox management continues to make Apple a success

When he returned to Apple, Steve Jobs dismantled its typical corporate structure and radically changed how the entire business was managed. The benefits of that rethinking about corporate structure are still being leveraged today.

William Gallagher 5 years ago 9

Apple TV Remote app inspired Steve Jobs' concept of Apple TV Siri Remote

In a tweet thread following the discontinuation of the standalone "Remote" app for Apple TV, the former Apple engineer explains how his creation evolved and helped with the design and development of the current Siri Remote.

Malcolm Owen 5 years ago 28

A decade of iPads: The 2010 iPad versus the 2020 iPad & new iPad Air

In every possible way, today's iPads are vastly superior and technologically more advanced than the one Steve Jobs launched in 2010. What's changed even more, though, is Apple.

William Gallagher 5 years ago 21

Hear Steve Jobs demo his NeXT computer in 1988

An audio recording of Steve Jobs revealing the NeXT computer shortly after its official launch has been released in full.

William Gallagher 5 years ago 7

Apple has sold a total of 500 million iPads in the last 10 years

Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple has sold more than 500 million iPads in the decade since it debuted its very first tablet, marking the first time it has revealed iPad sales numbers in two years.

Mike Peterson 5 years ago 15

Laurene Powell Jobs backs Biden, criticizes President Trump

Philanthropist and businesswoman Laurene Powell Jobs has spoken out against President Donald Trump, in a pre-recorded interview prior to his attack on Twitter.

William Gallagher 5 years ago 0

One share to 224: How Apple stock has grown in terms of gas, milk, and Macs

Apple stock is about to split for the fifth time in its 40-year availability. Here's what you could've bought if you sold your shares each time Apple split its stock since it first went public in 1980.

William Gallagher 5 years ago 11

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