Steve Jobs

2 weeks ago | cultofmac.com | Luke Dormehl |Steve Jobs

April 10, 1985: During a fateful meeting, Apple CEO John Sculley threatens to resign unless the company’s board of directors removes Steve Jobs as executive VP and general manager of the Macintosh division. Sculley’s threat triggers a series of events that ultimately will result in Jobs’ exit. The marathon board meeting — which continues for several hours the next day — leads to Jobs losing his operating role within the company. However, the Apple board allows him to stay on as chairman.

3 weeks ago | cultofmac.com | Luke Dormehl |Steve Jobs |Steve Wozniak

April 1, 1976: The Apple Computer Company is founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. The trio sets out to sell the $666 Apple-1 computer. Apple will not officially become a corporation until January 3 the following year. By that time, Wayne is no longer a part of the business. Apple founded to turn Apple-1 from hobby to ‘real computer’Apple’s initial ambitions were quite modest.

1 month ago | cultofmac.com | Luke Dormehl |Steve Jobs

March 24, 1997: The Newton MessagePad 2000 brings major upgrades to Apple’s PDA line, including a far better display and a much faster processor. The best MessagePad yet by a wide margin, it quickly becomes a critical and commercial success. But it won’t be enough to save the doomed product line. Newton MessagePad 2000: Bigger and fasterMuch as the iPhone X brought an OLED screen for the first time, the MessagePad 2000 introduced a major upgrade to the Newton display.

1 month ago | cultofmac.com | Luke Dormehl |Mona Simpson |Steve Jobs

March 18, 1991: Steve Jobs marries 27-year-old Stanford MBA Laurene Powell. The couple’s friends and family attend the wedding, which takes place at Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park in central California. Steve Jobs meets Laurene PowellJobs met Powell in October 1989, shortly after the NeXT Computer debuted. He gave a lecture at Stanford Business School, titled “View From the Top.”Powell, a graduate student in the business school, arrived late for Jobs’ presentation.

1 month ago | cultofmac.com | Luke Dormehl |Steve Jobs

March 15, 2004: The iTunes Music Store hits a musical milestone, having sold an astonishing 50 million songs in less than a year. The achievement cements Apple’s place at the center of the rapidly changing music business — at least for the moment. “Crossing 50 million songs is a major milestone for iTunes and the emerging digital music era,” Steve Jobs says in a statement.