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With less than 10 hours to go until the iPhone5 announcement, it is funny to read the hubub on many of the main steam media sites. It seems that many in the main stream, including the Wall Street Journal want the iPhone 5 announcement to be a failure. Videos like “Is the iPhone loosing its cool factor” and “Little Buzz Ahead of Apple’s iPhone Event” being the most popular on the site seems that they are pushing that negative agenda….
Apple, Inc. has sent out invitations to the media for the upcoming October 4th announcement of their latest rendition of the iPhone. The iPhone 5 as it has been dubbed in most circles is expected to be much sleeker, faster and have more battery life according to reports around the web. There is also a rumor that the new iPhone will be voice controlled. This rumor does not seem too far fetched since most of the software has been available…
Steve jobs has announced his retirement from Apple, Inc.. He will remain at the company as the Chairman of the board, however, Tim Cook will take over as the CEO. Although the announcement timing may have come as a surprise to many folks, the succession plan has been questioned for the past several years and thus really is not all that big of surprise. Steve’s Resignation Letter: CUPERTINO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:…
Apple introduced its new iPad 2 today at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California by none other than the master presenter himself, Steve Jobs. He mentioned that he could not let this historic announcement go by without showing up at the show, which is interesting because this presentation was a lot less historic than the iPhone coming to Verizon…. in my opinion anyway. Back to the iPad as it were, never owning an iPad myself…
By Bill Martens Apple, Inc. this past month introduced a machine that everyone is talking about in one respect or another. While the coolness factor of the machine has been undeniable from those who have had them in their hands, there has also been a lot of negative comments about the machine. Firstly, the iPad has not even been put on sale yet, however, it has generated more buzz than almost any machine in history outside of the iPhone. This…
The introduction of the one Gigahertz version of Apple’s TiBook, closes the gap between the high end laptop and desktop units. Compared with the 500MHz model of two years ago, the new units have twice as much of almost everythingÑspeed, cache, video and main memory, and disk drive space. Both the video memory and the 1M L3 cache are DDR, which ought to improve throughput on many common functions. The main memory is PC-133S. There’s also a Super Drive in…
On the 20th of June 2002, Vintage Micros.com of South Carolina listed one of the rarest computers available today. The Lisa 1 was only produced for a few months and then replaced with the Lisa 2, which was eventually renamed to the Macintosh XL due to the problems with the Lisa 1. The Lisa 1 listed by Vintage micros came directly from the Texas manufacturing plant via a third party who won the auction which Apple held originally. All of these…
About Bill Fernandez Bill Fernandez is known in the Apple world as Apple Employee number 1 and a big part of what Apple has become today. As one of the people who has been instrumental in their growth and development, his insights into what Apple is provides a good basis for those of us who were on the outside looking in. Today Bill is both an amateur photographer as well as a 2nd degree black belt in Aikido. He has spent…
A Star is Born In the world of corporate servers, there are the haves and the have-nots among manufacturers. Until 14 May 2002, Apple Computer Inc was among those have-nots. This changed with the introduction of the Apple Xserve. A server in an unusual for Apple, industry standard 19-inch rack mount 1U case, the Xserve introduces a form that is a great standard to follow. Long criticized for not having a server that was useable in the corporate world, the…
Apple Computer Australia are making arrangements for the appointment of Control Data Australia as its third-party maintenance organisation in Australia. The agreement will result in users having access to a nation-wide on-site maintenance service. Control Data will install and maintain Apple II , Apple /I and Lisa computers and peripherals, including printers and video monitors. The on-site support offered by Control Data will complement Apple’s current dealer maintenance service .. “This agreement will have a number of advantages for Apple…
The September meeting will be held on the second Tuesday of September instead of the usual third Tuesday. The occasion for this being an appearance “on the scene” by Mr. Randy Wiggington of Apple Computer, Inc. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Randy for his interest in the group and also to Bob Huelsdonk who was instrumental in arranging for Randy to appear. We are not certain just what will go on at the meeting, other than…
As we were going to press, we were handed a copy of the NEW documentation on Disk II. We are pleased to report that this documentation, running nearly twice the length of the original. It is far more concise and detailed and has a very good introductory section. So all you gentle folk at Apple Computer, we retract (sort of) some of the nasty things we said in this month’s editorial (http://www.callapple.org/1978/08/01/an-a-p-p-l-e-editorial-2/). However, we still feel that the Disk II…
