Today in Apple history: Woz and Jobs reunite onstage
On January 7, 1997, Steve Wozniak returned to Apple in an advisory role and joined co-founder Steve Jobs onstage at the Macworld Expo.
On January 7, 1997, Steve Wozniak returned to Apple in an advisory role and joined co-founder Steve Jobs onstage at the Macworld Expo.
On January 6, 1998, Steve Jobs shocked Macworld Expo by revealing Cupertino's comeback. Apple was profitable again!
On January 5, 1999, Apple introduced its revised Power Mac G3 minitower, often nicknamed the "Blue and White G3."
On January 4, 1995, Apple signed a deal with Mac accessory maker Radius, licensing the Mac OS and allowing the company to build Mac clones.
On January 3, 1977, Apple Computer Co. was born. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were listed as co-founders in the Apple incorporation.
On January 2, 1979, Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston formed Software Arts to publish VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet software for the Apple II.
On January 1, 1983, Apple launched the Apple IIe, the third model in the series (and the last before the Macintosh's arrival a year later).
On December 31, 2012, the app piracy website Hackulous went offline, bringing an end to its most popular apps, Installous and AppSync.
On December 30, 1999, Microsoft hit the height of its 1990s dominance and began its early-2000s decline. It was a major turning point.
On December 29, 1999, Apple started shipping its at-the-time unfathomably large 22-inch LCD Cinema Display.
On December 28, 2006, Apple became embroiled in a stock option "backdating" scandal, prompting some to suggest Steve Jobs could lose his job.
On December 27, 2010, Apple confirmed that it had sold 1 million units of its second-gen Apple TV just four months after the device's debut.
On December 26, 1982, "Time" magazine named the personal computer its "Machine of the Year." The news devastated Steve Jobs.
On December 25, 1977, Steve Wozniak spent the holiday building a prototype of the Disk II, the Apple II's revolutionary floppy disk drive.
On December 24, 2009, as rumors of a possible Apple tablet neared their peak, a filing suggested the device would be called the iSlate.
On December 23, 2005, Apple filed a patent application for its iconic "slide to unlock" gesture for the iPhone.
On December 22, 2013, Apple announced a deal with China Mobile to bring the iPhone to the world's largest telecom company.
On December 21, 1994, Mac gamers got their hands on "Marathon," an innovative sci-fi title that quickly became a fan favorite.
On December 20, 1996, Apple Computer officially bought NeXT, the computer company Steve Jobs founded after leaving Apple a decade earlier.
On December 19, 2007, Apple settled a lawsuit with Nick Ciarelli that shuttered “Think Secret,” his popular Apple rumors site.
On December 18, 2006, the iPhone was announced -- but it wasn't made by Apple. Instead, it was a Linksys iPhone from Cisco Systems.
On December 17, 2009, Apple finally triumphed over long-time rival Microsoft ... on mobile operating systems market share.
On December 16, 1994, Apple inked a deal with Power Computing, allowing it to make Macintosh-compatible computers. The Mac clones era began!
On December 15, 2003, almost eight months after launching the iTunes Music Store, Apple celebrated its festive 25 millionth download.
On December 12, 1980, Apple went public, floating 4.6 million shares of stock at $22 per share. The Apple IPO makes some rich, others mad.
On December 11, 2013, a Chinese labor rights group called on Apple to investigate the deaths of workers at a Pegatron iPhone factory.
On December 10, 2012, Cupertino corrected an Apple Maps glitch that caused motorists in Australia to get stranded in the middle of nowhere.
On December 9, 2011, Apple opened its fifth Manhattan retail store, located in New York's ultra-busy Grand Central Terminal.
On December 8, 1975, Paul Terrell opened the Byte Shop, one of the world's first computer stores -- and the first to sell an Apple computer.
On December 7, 2007, Apple opened a magisterial store on West 14th Street in New York City featuring a stunning, three-story glass staircase.
On December 6, 2000, Apple Computer's stock price fell dramatically after lousy quarterly results. However, the best was yet to come in 2001.
On December 5, 2002, Apple said it had served its millionth customer in the Apple Store online, five years after launching the service.
On December 4, 1992, Apple engineers demonstrated a "proof of concept" that's part of a secret project to run the Mac OS on Intel PCs.
On December 3, 2012, News Corp pulled the plug on innovative iPad newspaper "The Daily" less than two years after the publication's launch.
On December 2, 1991, Apple shipped its first public version of QuickTime, bringing video to Mac users running System 7.
On December 1, 1981, the Apple III relaunch addressed the computer's biggest hardware faults as the company did damage control.
On November 30, 2003, Apple first expanded its Apple Store chain outside the United States with a new store in Tokyo's Ginza district.
On November 29, 1995, Pixar went public on the stock market. The Pixar IPO turned owner Steve Jobs into a billionaire for the first time.
On November 28, 2001, Apple revealed that its QuickTime 5 software was being downloaded for Mac and PC a million times every three days.
On November 27, 2012, Apple fired Richard Williamson, the manager responsible for the embarrassingly bad Apple Maps launch in iOS 6.