Archive for May of 2008

This Week in Apple History

May 23, 2008
Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The May 23 - 31 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "The US Festival, Jobs' Failed Coup, TAM, Pirates".

May 23 - 31: The US Festival, Jobs' Failed Coup, TAM, Pirates

This Week in Apple History

May 16, 2008
Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The May 16 - 22 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Apple III & AppleLink introduced, iPod Division Created"

May 16 - 22: Apple III & AppleLink introduced, iPod Division Created

Triumphs and Turkeys

May 12, 2008
Today we return to the magical Wayback Machine at Archive.org to retrieve another lost nugget. This 1997 article by Morgan Frew, subtitled "The best and worst Mac products of 1996", is originally from ComputerUser's "Creative Mac". It begins:
"It certainly wasn't the best year for Apple; it lost several hundred million dollars and all. It was, however, a good year for Mac users, who saw system prices drop below $1,500 and processor speeds rise to 240MHz."

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Triumphs and Turkeys

This Week in Apple History

May 09, 2008
Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The May 9 - 15 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Lisa Canceled, Exponential Closes, OS X Born"

May 9 - 15: Lisa Canceled, Exponential Closes, OS X Born

This Week in Apple History

May 01, 2008
Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The May 1 - 8 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Big Blue Becomes Cloner, The iMac is Born!"

May 1 - 8: Big Blue Becomes Cloner, The iMac is Born!