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March 9th, 2008

Safari Pad

Would you ever have guessed the iPhone began as a R&D device called Safari Pad? John Markoff from the New York Times is reporting just that.
Apple’s multitouch technology began life not as a cellphone, but as a notepad-sized skunkworks project internally dubbed Safari Pad, run by Tim Bucher, then Apple’s head of Macintosh hardware. To […]

By Matt Pippen -- 0 comments

February 11th, 2008

What Steve Jobs Might Say to Microsoft’s Bid on Yahoo

What might Steve Jobs think about Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo? Here’s a hint.
Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple Computer, has had his own experience of seeing Microsoft enter a market and overwhelm the original innovator (the Apple Macintosh) with a similar, competing product (Windows). Jobs regards the Web as “the defining social moment for computing.” […]

By Matt Pippen -- 0 comments