Cody Taylor

At a time when computers were more like glorified typewriters, Apple introduced the Macintosh – and changed how people interacted with them. In exclusive interviews, Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder, and Andy Hertzfeld, one of the developers, recall how it happened.

Yesterday we missed this in our look at the first review of Windows ever: Here’s the first known photo of an Apple computer running Windows 1.0 software. Yes, Mr. Bootcamp, Windows on Apple in 1983.

Ever since Tim Cook made his non-specific, veiled threats in response to a direct question about how the Palm Pre “almost directly emulates the kind of touch interface” found on the iPhone, the entire tech community has waited for the next move. Now Lynn Fox, a Palm spokesperson has stepped into the fray: “Palm has a long history of innovation…

Steve Jobs was a 21-year-old college dropout living with his parents in Los Altos, Calif, where he and two friends, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, would hang out in the garage. For other trios, this would be the beginning of a rock band; but Jobs, “Woz” and Wayne had other things on their minds.

Twenty-five years ago, the landmark commercial paved the way for big-budget television advertisements and brought Apple into the mainstream.

bradgoodman writes to tell us that tomorrow will mark the 25th anniversary of the first Macintosh, debuting just 2 days after the famous Super Bowl XVIII commercial. “‘The Macintosh demonstrated that it was possible and profitable to create a machine to be used by millions and millions of people,’ said Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, research director for the Institute for the Future, a Palo Alto, California, think tank, and chief force behind ‘Making the Macintosh: Technology and Culture in Silicon Valley,’ an online historical exhibit. ‘The gold standard now for personal electronics is, “Is it easy enough for my grandmother to use it?” People on the Macintosh project were the first people to talk about a product in that way.'”

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During Apple’s earnings conference call yesterday, Apple COO Tim Cook fielded a wide variety of questions, but two answers in particular helped shed a bit of light on the likelihood that Apple would enter the netbook market or release a lower end iPhone.