Tag: apple inc
Seattle, Washington – July 20, 2025 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) and Robert Clardy have published a new, color 2nd Edition of “Synergistic Software: The Early Games.” The book was first published June 19, 2017. Synergistic Software, founded by Robert C. Clardy, established itself as a computer game company in 1978 and produced more than 160 titles over the next 20 years, encompassing games, business, educational, and utility software. This new color edition focuses on Synergistic’s early games…
Seattle, Washington – July 20, 2025 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) and Robert Clardy have published a new, color 2nd Edition of his autobiography “Cyber Jack: The Adventures of Robert Clardy and Synergistic Software.” The book was first published June 19, 2017 and also features dozens of pictures of his creations and adventures. Cyber Jack chronicles Robert Clardy’s adventures throughout his self-made career as a computer programmer. In this new color edition, he shares business advice, humorous stories,…
Seattle, Washington – July 20, 2025 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published a new, expanded, color 2nd Edition of “Nibble Viewpoints: Business Insights From The Computing Revolution.” The book was first published June 26, 2016 with Mike Harvey’s enthusiasm. This new color edition adds 45 pieces of Mike’s art, over 80 magazine covers, plus an interview with Mike, a historic presentation, and stories of friendship and production details by producer Brian Wiser. It also includes over 60…
Cupertino, CA – The original Apple Computer, Inc. company building sign, bearing the iconic rainbow logo, faced an unexpected outcome at the Bonhams auction, failing to secure a buyer despite its historical significance and ties to the early days of Apple. The exterior office sign, crafted from stiff foam and adorned with six vinyl-applied colors, stood at approximately 46 x 49 x 1 ½ inches, with a separate stem piece. Showing signs of wear, including slight peeling at some color…
The Steve Jobs Archive has announced the release of a new book showcasing letters, photos, notes and other materials from the late tech icon’s life. The ePub format ebook, which hit the wires on April 11th, contains a timeline of speeches, interviews, and personal correspondences from Steve Jobs himself. Established by Laurene Powell Jobs, Jony Ive, and others close to the Apple co-founder, the Steve Jobs Archive has been sharing snippets and quotes from Jobs’ life since September 2022. The…
It used to be that the three most important things to business success were location, location, and location. Today they are the content of your inventory, the content of your web site that permits access to ordering said inventory, and how content you make your customers (you don’t want your reputation slagged on social media do you?) Apple seems to consistently navigate all this in a manner that leaves many of its competitors in the dust. Yes, there have been…
Apple has announced their 2021 rendition of their World Wide Developers Conference or WWDC for June 7 to June 11 beginning at 10am PDT on the 7th. For more information, check out the Apple Developers website at: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc21/
In the last issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine, we wrote about Jean-Lois Gassee and his involvement in the cancellation of the Jonathan project by Apple Computer Inc.. Today in the Monday Note blog, there was a long memoir, written by Jean-Louis himself in which he talks about his time at Apple. “I joined Apple 40 years ago on the day of the company’s IPO, December 12, 1980. As I signed my employment agreement in Geneva I was elated, ready, and relieved.”…
For a spell, the Steve Jobs Archive was the one go-to place on the web to get a good synopsis of the videos of Steve and the associated grouping. The site contains 43 categories of Steve Jobs’ life and the videos which contain that aspect. After the disappearance of the site, A.P.P.L.E. inquired and apparently the interest in Steve Jobs had waned to a point where the curator, Art Matsak, felt that it was no longer needed. However, Since said…
A new film called “Steve Jobs’ Choices” is on IndieGoGo, produced by 8-Bit Generation who also produced “The Commodore Wars.” The documentary looks intriguing from the posted trailer. They have assembled some impressive interviews with people like John Sculley, Mike Markkula, Steve Wozniak, Andy Hertzfeld, Al Alcorn, Dan Kottke, Larry Tesler, Jay Elliot, Paul Terrel, Chuck Peddle, Alvy Ray Smith, Steven Levy, Alan Cooper, Stan Veit, Michael Swaine, and Paul Freiberg. About a month remains to complete their funding goal…
When Apple decided to move all of its China Based iCloud accounts to a chinese based partner company, Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (GCBD) , which is run by the local government, it also swept up a number of accounts which were US based. According to TechCrunch, this number is low but all the same is quite unalarming to Apple, Inc. who just meekly points to the terms of service as the basis for this overreach by the transfer of accounts.
From Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine: January / February 2017 – Over the last 30 years or so of Steve Jobs life, many in the both the Apple community and the philanthropy driven community accused Steve of not giving or hoarding his billions of dollars in wealth. What they did not see was the reality that Steve was a giving person early and often. While Bill Gates has a public media blitz with every gift he has given to various causes over the…
40 years ago, Apple Computer Inc filed the papers of incorporation. One of the people who was there in those early years, Chris Espinosa posted a copy of the original seal: Happy 40th birthday, Apple Inc. pic.twitter.com/CZTvaPDTrq — Chris Espinosa (@cdespinosa) January 3, 2017 Espinosa is still an Apple employee and along with Daniel Kottke, are the only employees remaining from the fabled Garage from which Apple, Inc. was born.
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, spoke at the Utah Tech Tour yesterday with other industry leaders. Members of the audience had the rare chance to submit questions to Tim. As always, Tim is very thoughtful, articulate and clearly brilliant. I feel lucky to have been there and heard his insights into encryption, being a successful entrepreneur, AR vs. VR, and embracing Steve Jobs’ vision at Apple. These are the highlights from Tim: What can students do to be competitive in…
A Word or Two November 2015 Apple’s sales saga continues to flummox many pundits. They forecast earnings estimates too low or too high, and when they miss, they criticize–not themselves, but Apple–as if it were Cupertino’s fault they aren’t more prescient. The latest take on this is that because Apple’s iPhone sales generate so large a percentage of the total income, and aren’t breaking records by a very wide margin these days, the company is somehow in trouble, and…
The new Steve Jobs movie opens today in a number of theaters today across the US. The Aaron Sorkin directed biopic has come under fire somewhat over the past several days as people began to see the previews. Now, with the release of the movie comes new full-length two-minute clip that highlights a confrontation between Wozniak and Jobs.
Tim cook sent and email out to Apple Employees this week mentioning the anniversary of Steve Jobs’ passing. Team, Today marks four years since Steve passed away. On that day, the world lost a visionary. We at Apple lost a leader, a mentor, and many of us lost a dear friend. Steve was a brilliant person, and his priorities were very simple. He loved his family above all, he loved Apple, and he loved the people with whom he worked…
In 1975, Paul Terrell, owner of The Byte Shop, famously bought 50 Apple-1’s from Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. Of course, they had to build them first and with no money, Steve Jobs convinced companies to provide parts based on a 30 days payment plan using the promissory note from Paul Terrell. Most folks look at that event as the real event that started Apple. However, it was Paul who convinced the Apple guys to make the computer a real…
The MacCast, run by Adam Christianson, has posted their 537th episode. The current edisode covers a number of Apple related topics including the rumored Apple Car as well as the forthcoming expected September launch of the iPhone 6s. You can listen to the current MacCast Episode at: http://www.maccast.com/2015/08/17/maccast-2015-08-17/
Apples long announced Apple Watch looks to be coming on March 9th. Apple has an announcement event planned for that day at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco at 10am PDT. Apple also will be live streaming the event over the Internet as they have done with all of their events since Tim Cook took the reins of the company. You can view the live stream using Safari or Apple TV on the day of…
