- Nov 07, 2020
Apple Quotes
A company remembered as much for its history as its hardware.
A senior Apple executive nicknamed after the company's own chief sits alongside a correction of the common belief that a rival built the first personal computer, when the Apple II actually predates it. Related history sits in our Apple II collection.
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- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
The iPod was once so important to Apple that the estimable journalist Steven Levy wrote an entire book about it. And then, poof! The iPod was nearly gone.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first computers were a Timex Sinclair and an Apple II.
- Patient
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977.
- Microsoft
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
- Him
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- Nov 07, 2020
Microsoft's Windows 3.1, released in 1992, was the first truly successful edition of Windows and juiced the Redmond juggernaut. Apple's Macintosh System 7.5, released in 1994, was another in a string of versions that lacked key architectural features that the Mac didn't have until Steve Jobs returned and brought with him the code that became OS X.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jeff Williams, Apple's senior vice president of operations, has been called 'Tim Cook's Tim Cook' by some.
- Makes
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew a lot about product design before coming to Apple, but I didn't understand a lot about consumer experience design, which is really Apple's forte.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the Obamacare tech nightmare is how wholly predictable it all was. Anyone who has been involved in building the most rudimentary of web operations knows nothing ever works as it's supposed to. Even awesome Apple, mighty Microsoft, and gargantuan Google miss deadlines.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the coolest days of my life was when I bought a 16K memory card upgrade and stuck it in my Apple II. I was kind of a geek.
- Juice
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- Nov 07, 2020