The Apple Macintosh team visited New York at the end of 1983 for a meeting with Newsweek and the late Steve Jobs had a funny and tender moment outside the IBM building. Steve Jobs was captured on film giving the digitus impudicus to the IBM logo as the team walked around Manhattan.
The photo surfaced from Andy Hertzfield, who was a member of the original Macintosh development team, on Google+.
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is honoring the accomplishments of Steve Jobs through an exhibit showcasing his patents. The exhibit is located in the atrium of the USPTO’s Madison Building at its campus in Alexandria Virginia. Access is free and it will run through January 15, 2012.
The exhibits consists a series of giant iPhones displaying more than 300 patents bearing Steve Jobs name and numerous trademarks associated with Apple.
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Steve Jobs was rather camera shy, so only a handful of interviews with the technology visionary remain. One of these interviews was part of WGBH’s The Machine That Changed the World series, while the name of the episode is ‘the Paperback Computer’.
The interview was done in 1990, the year when NeXT released the NeXTcube, which Jobs touted as the first “interpersonal” computer that would replace the personal computer. The interview is an uncut version, so you get a peek at Jobs during all the outtakes.
There are a lot of interesting insights on personal computing and software. Jobs talks about how the success of a platform system is measured by the number of application software written for it. He discusses how the ‘hobbyist’ or as we would say today the ‘developer’ or ‘hacking’ community was one step ahead of the companies in realizing the true potential of hardware technology.
He also talks about how communication is the future of computing, while there are tons of references on the history of personal computers. You can find the entire 50 minute interview after the break.
Steve Jobs had left Apple in 1985 and founded NeXT that same year. Apple acquired NeXT in 1997 and Jobs returned to the company he co-founded, with the NeXTSTEP operating system finally evolving into Mac OS X.
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Few individuals have had the influence in modern personal computing, portable electronics and in essence our daily lives as Steve Jobs has had. In 1976 at age 21 Steve Jobs co-founded Apple marking the beginning of the personal computer. Having left the company in 1984, Jobs returned to Apple in 1996 and has served as CEO from 1997 until 2011. During this time, Apple introduced a host of game changing devices like the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Jobs oversaw the move to Mac OS X, and the release of iconic personal computers such as the iMac, the iBook and most recently the MacBook Air. Apple had recently become the most valuable company in the world, with a market capitalization reaching $330 billion.
Steve Jobs has announced today that he has stepped down as Apple’s CEO to be replaced by former COO Tim Cook. Steve will remain as an Apple employee and Chairman of the Board. Here’s his letter:
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