Employees

Feb 10 2012

Jerry Mancock, Creator of Apple ][ Case and Macintosh, Talks about Life at Apple with Steve Jobs

Paula Routly recently interviewed early Apple Inc. employee Jerry Mancock.  Jerry was Apple Computer Inc. Employee 6 or 7, depending on who you ask and he gave a very detailed overview of early life at Apple,  about working on the Apple ][, Disk ][ and eventually the Macintosh, as well as working with Steve Jobs.   The original creator of the Apple ][ case was originally very skeptical of Steve Jobs and asked for payment up front.  He didn't get it but still did the job.  Steve like Jerry's work so much, he hired his as the Corporate Manager of Product Design in 1977.

Jerry's work came to light thanks to the book by Walter Issacson, Steve Jobs, published weeks after Steve died.   As riveting as the story is, Jerry's appearance on page 73 of the book has all the details of a long drawn out conversation.  However, Jerry maintains, no such conversation ever took place and the details in the book are wrong about how much Steve paid Jerry to produce the Apple ][ case.

You can read the entire story of the man responsible for the early years of Apple's Macintosh designs on the Seven Days news site at:

http://www.7dvt.com/2012jerry-manock-mac-designer

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Feb 3 2012

AAPL : Down Yesterday in Trading, Senior Employees Get Small Batch Of Shares

Apple Inc (AAPL) traded slightly lower yesterday, closing $1.07 down for the day at $455.12 per share.  In after hours trading, the shares slipped a bit further down to the 454.87 USD per share level.  This as Apple filed its SEC reports on 16 senior employees who were given 63 Shares of Apple stock each at a price of $337.2375 on the 31st of January according to SEC filings.  These filings included Senior VP Jeffrey Williams and Apple Inc. Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer.

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Jan 31 2012

Apple hires new Senior VP for Retail Position

Apple has hired John Browett, former CEO of Dixons Retail to be the new Senior VP in charge of Apple Stores world wide.

Press Release From Apple:

CUPERTINO, California—January 30, 2012—Apple® today announced that John Browett will join the company as senior vice president of Retail, reporting to Apple CEO Tim Cook. Browett comes to Apple from European technology retailer Dixons Retail, where he has been CEO since 2007. Beginning in April, he will be responsible for Apple’s retail strategy and the continued expansion of Apple retail stores around the world.

“Our retail stores are all about customer service, and John shares that commitment like no one else we’ve met,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “We are thrilled to have him join our team and bring his incredible retail experience to Apple.”

Prior to joining Dixons Retail, Browett held a series of executive positions at Tesco plc including CEO of Tesco.com. Earlier in his career he advised retail and consumer goods clients at Boston Consulting Group. He holds a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and an MBA from Wharton Business School.

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.


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Jan 26 2012

Apple Employees Getting New Discounts

Yesterday, Tim Cook held a town hall meeting with employees of Apple Inc.   While there were several items discussed, perhaps the biggest surprise was the new employee discounts that Apple employees will get.   Each employee will get $500 off Mac Purchases and $250 off iPad purchases, once every three years.  The discounts will begin in June 2012 and it is only available to employees who have been with the company for more than 90 days.  It is also not applicable to the Mac Mini.  Employees already get a 25 percent discount on purchases of Macs.

Source: 9 to 5 Mac

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