Laurene Powell Jobs pays $70 million to break San Francisco house price record

Businesswoman and philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs has bought a 100-year-old mansion in San Francisco's Billionaires Row, spending $70 million on the 17,300-square-foot home.

William Gallagher 1 year ago 26

Watch Steve Jobs describe the future and AI a year before the Mac

The Steve Jobs Archive has released a fascinating video of a 28-year-old Jobs explaining computers to a skeptical crowd in 1983.

William Gallagher 1 year ago 5

Jony Ive still thinks of Steve Jobs every day

In a new podcast interview, ex-Apple chief designer Jony Ive has told of his hard early years at the company, and how hard it was leaving.

William Gallagher 1 year ago 18

Apple dancing with Microsoft for most valuable company in the US crown

Apple's AI announcements at WWDC have sent its stock rising and it briefly knocked Microsoft off the top spot on Wednesday.

William Gallagher 2 years ago 1

Steve Jobs screamed advice at Starbucks CEO, who wishes he'd listened

Then Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz asked Steve Jobs for advice and got a profane tirade in response — which he says he later wished he'd listened to.

William Gallagher 2 years ago 6

iOS 18 & macOS 15 are going to look to the past for new wallpapers

Not everything will be new at WWDC — Apple is planning to revisit some of its iconic iPhone and Mac wallpapers as part of the latest updates.

William Gallagher 2 years ago 7

How Apple has steadily been dropping the 'i' from its devices for over a decade

From the first iMac in the 1990s to today, the prefix "i" has symbolized Apple — but Apple has been working to get rid of it since the original iPad in 2010.

William Gallagher 2 years ago 12

The iPad has come so incredibly far since 2010, and fulfills Steve Jobs' vision perfectly

It's still a sheet of glass, has no serious competitors, and uses radically different technology as you'd expect for a product more than a decade old, but the 2024 iPad still conforms to Steve Jobs' original vision for the product.

William Gallagher 2 years ago 26

At last Apple is dumping those pointless, wasteful stickers

Starting with the new iPads, Apple has finally stopped including the stickers and it is a relief.

William Gallagher 2 years ago 43

Apple charms investors with record $110B stock buyback, dividend hike

Alongside disclosing its earnings for Q2 2024, Apple also announced that it is increasing the dividend it pays to shareholders by 4%, and is also buying back more stock in one program than ever before.

William Gallagher 2 years ago 23

The best of WWDC — the developer conference that shapes technology for the rest of us

Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference isn't as high profile as its iPhone launches. But, it has been the setting for moments that have radically changed the company — and all of our lives.

William Gallagher 2 years ago 4

The history — and triumph — of Arm and Apple Silicon

Decades ago, Apple started down a path that has revolutionized both its own products and the entire technology industry. Here's where Apple Silicon began, and where it's going.

Charles Martin and Malcolm Owen 2 years ago 26

TikTok might not have existed without insights from Steve Jobs

The story of TikTok's start highlights how visionary ideas, much like those of Steve Jobs, can have unexpected paths that profoundly impact global technology and culture.

Andrew Orr 2 years ago 7

Australian court is the latest to attack Apple on behalf of rich corporations

Apple Fellow Phil Schiller has been testifying in an Australian Federal Court about the origins of the App Store in 2008, and it's just the latest example of pointless attacks on the company.

William Gallagher 2 years ago 29

Phil Schiller will be Apple's ecosystem defender for quite some time

Phil Schiller is Apple's biggest defender of Apple's ecosystem, a profile into the Apple Fellow declares, with the executive publicly beating the drum to maintain the vision of co-founder Steve Jobs.

Malcolm Owen 2 years ago 17

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