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cultofmac.com | Luke Dormehl
May 14, 1992: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs‘ company NeXT runs into trouble as it loses a crucial deal with Businessland after the computer retailer closes its stores. It comes at a time when NeXT’s luck is going from bad to worse. The Businessland closure marks one of the lowest points in Jobs’ career — before everything starts to turn around again. A disastrous deal between Businessland and NeXTBusinessland was once America’s largest computer retailer.
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2 days ago |
cultofmac.com | Luke Dormehl
May 13, 1991: Apple releases System 7, the biggest upgrade to the Mac operating system since the original Mac shipped in 1984. The new Mac OS is whip-fast, beautiful to look at, and boasts a bevy of innovative features. The longest-lasting of Apple’s classic Mac operating systems, it will remain current until System 8 replaces it in 1997. System 7: New features for Mac OSOne big new System 7 feature was true full-time multitasking, letting multiple applications run at the same time on the Mac.
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3 days ago |
cultofmac.com | Luke Dormehl
May 12, 2005: Longtime Apple frenemy Bill Gates tells a German newspaper that Apple may have hit it big with the iPod, but that its success isn’t going to last forever. The reason for his take on the iPod’s future? Mobile phones are going to steal the music player’s market share. The good news for Gates is that he was right on the money. The bad news for Microsoft is that Apple cannibalized itself by making the iPhone. And Apple’s smartphone became even more successful than the iPod.
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3 days ago |
flipboard.com | Luke Dormehl
1 hour agoSonos CEO says the company didn’t understand the real worldInterim Sonos CEO Tom Conrad said in an interview that two of the unpopular decisions the company made were deliberate, but the biggest problem was that it failed to understand how its products were used in the real world.
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4 days ago |
cultofmac.com | Luke Dormehl
May 11, 1998: As part of his mission to turn Apple around, CEO Steve Jobs spells out the company’s strategy for the Mac operating system going forward. The big news is that Apple is hard at work creating a major new operating system called OS X, he says at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California. However, first the company will ship Mac OS 8.5 and the first customer release of an OS called Rhapsody that fall.
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