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  • Rare Apple-1 With Steve Jobs Letter Sells for $1.15 Million

    One of Apple’s earliest computers has just fetched a record-breaking price at auction, with a remarkable piece of Steve Jobs history helping tell its story.

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  • 19 Years Later, Apple Has Somehow Come Full Circle

    There’s something wonderfully familiar about this image.

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  • Tomorrow, iPhone Changes — Forever

    For almost 20 years, we’ve known what an iPhone looks like.

    It has become thinner, faster, more powerful, and its cameras have grown from something you occasionally used into one of the most important parts of the phone. We’ve watched Apple move from plastic to glass, from Home buttons to gestures, from tiny screens to enormous ones.

    But underneath all of that, the basic idea has remained remarkably consistent.

    Every iPhone has been a single, rigid, rounded rectangle.

    Tomorrow, that finally changes.

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  • The Tweetie Era

    There was a particular moment in the history of the iPhone when everything just seemed to click.

    The App Store was still young. Developers were discovering what the iPhone could actually do. Twitter was becoming a daily habit for an ever-growing number of people. And somewhere in the middle of all of that came Tweetie.

    Looking back, it is easy to think of Tweetie as simply another Twitter client.

    It wasn’t.

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  • Meet John Appleseed: Apple’s Longest-Serving Imaginary Customer

    Before there was an iPhone customer, an Apple Pay customer or even a Siri contact, there was John Appleseed.

    For years, Apple had a rather unusual recurring character hiding in plain sight.

    He wasn’t an executive. He wasn’t a designer. He wasn’t an actor hired for an advert.

    He was John Appleseed.

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  • Goodbye, Tim: The End of an Apple Era

    There are certain moments in technology that feel bigger than the news itself.

    Today is one of them.

    On September 1, 2026, Tim Cook officially stepped down as CEO of Apple, bringing an end to almost 15 years at the very top of one of the most influential companies in the world. John Ternus now takes over as CEO, while Tim Cook moves into the role of executive chairman. (Apple)

    And, perhaps surprisingly, I’ve found myself thinking less about Apple’s stock price, quarterly results or what this means for the next iPhone.

    Instead, I’ve been thinking about RazorianFly.

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  • Jan 27th: The Apple Tablet, Where Did The Rumors Start? Will We See iPhone OS 4.0? [Updated]

    With the world aflutter about Apple’s upcoming media event slated for January 27th, 2010, it’s unsurprising to think that the most ancient Apple rumor of them all has once again shot into the spotlight. But, Where did all this start? .. And with Apple having not confirmed anything officially, are we getting ahead of ourselves? (more…)