Day in Tech History Podcast - Apple History

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June 10, 2024June 10: Seiko Introduces Ruputer
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<img decoding="async" width="116" height="116" data-tf-not-load src="https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ruputer1.jpg" alt="Ruputer" class="wp-image-23293" style="width:243px;height:auto" />June 10, 1998: The Ruputer was released
1998 – Seiko introduces the world’s first wearable PC watch called the Ruputer. It was marketed under the OnHand PC name. The Ruputer had a 3.6 MHz processor and 2 MB of non-volitile storage. The 102×64 monochrome LCD could display data or play games. a joystick with six function buttons were on the Ruputer. This watch could download pictures and had three applications that ran on Windows 95. Ruputer cost $285
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Intel releases the 200 MHz pentium processor
Microsoft announces they will discontinue MS Money
IBM and Microsoft sign a joint development agreement
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June 06, 2024June 6, 2005: Apple Switches to Intel
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<img decoding="async" width="1024" height="991" data-tf-not-load src="https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-50-1024x991.png" alt="" class="wp-image-27530" style="width:213px;height:auto" srcset="https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-50-1024x991.png 1024w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-50-300x290.png 300w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-50-768x743.png 768w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-50-1536x1487.png 1536w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-50-2048x1982.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />June 6, 2011 Steve Jobs gave his last keynote for Apple
2005 – Steve Jobs spoke in front of the masses at the WWDC announcing that Apple will switch their processors from PowerPC to Intel. He then showed off the Mac OS X running on aPentium 4 CPU. The reasoning was that PowerPC chips took too much power to run and also ran hotter than an Intel chip.

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TI 99/8 is introduced
The first Internet connection
Palm releases the Palm Pre
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9min
May 28, 2024May 28, 2014: Apple Music Acquires Beats
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<img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-24618" data-tf-not-load src="http://vid.geekazine.com/dith/uploads/2015/05/mzl.eqhyagot1-300x300.png" alt="Beats Music" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/mzl.eqhyagot1-300x300.png 300w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/mzl.eqhyagot1-150x150.png 150w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/mzl.eqhyagot1-160x160.png 160w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/mzl.eqhyagot1-320x320.png 320w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/mzl.eqhyagot1.png 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Beats Music
2014 – Rumors flew high on this one, so when it happened, many people were not surprised. Apple announced they were going to acquire Beats Music and Electronics in a $3 billion deal. As part of the acquisition, co-founders Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine would join Apple.
Beats subscription service would continue to work as part of the service would be integrated with iTunes. Currently, Beats has a 20 million song library, and is available for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone for a $9.99 subscription.

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Steve Jobs is removed as General Manager of Macintosh Division
Yahoo! completes Acquisition of Geocities
3DO gaming filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Time Warner separates from AOL.
The first graphene-based circuits to break the gigahertz barrier
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7min
January 31, 2019 January 31, 1984: Apple Reorganizes
1984 – Apple announced they would split up the Cupertino based company into three divisions – Apple II (handling all Apple III computers as well), the Apple 32 division (Lisa, and new Macintosh line of computers) and Accessory Products (Printers, keyboards, etc). Delbert Yocam led the Apple II group which Steve Jobs would take care of […]
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8min
January 22, 2019 January 22, 1998: Microsoft and US Department of Justice
1998 – Microsoft reached an agreement with the US Department of Justice regarding Internet Explorer on Windows 95. In the agreement, computer manufacturers could have the IE link removed. This was a small step in the antitrust suit against Microsoft and using bundled software and drive out competition. The Microsoft antitrust trial would begin on May […]
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8min
January 20, 2019 January 20, 1885: the Gravity Pleasure Switchback Railway Patent
1885 – Sounding like anything but a roller coaster, the Gravity Pleasure Switchback Railway was the first American designed amusement coaster designed by LaMarcus Adna Thompson. Only 5 cents to ride, the Switchback was a simple coaster that took you about 600 feet to the next tower at six miles per hour. It had a height of […]
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7min
January 19, 2019 January 19, 1983: Apple Lisa Introduced
Happy Birthday to me. 1983 – at an introductory price of $9995, Apple introduces the Lisa computer – the first computer with a GUI (Graphical User Interface). The computer featured a 5 MHz 68000 microprocessor, 1 MB RAM, 12″ monochrome monitor, dual 5.25″ 860 KB floppy drives, a 5 MB hard drive and more. Lisa cost […]
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6min
January 12, 2019 January 12, 1966: The Batman on TV
1966 – Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson entered our lives via ABC on Wednesdays. The television series “Batman” debuted with the episode Hi Diddle Riddle. Each half hour episode contained either part 1 or part 2 of the dynamic duo’s fight against the criminal of the week. Get Batman: The Complete Television Series (Limited Edition) [Blu-ray] […]
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6min
January 09, 2019 January 9, 2001: Mac OSX, iTunes Media Platform
At MacWorld 2001, Steve Jobs announced Mac OSX – the base OS for Apple for the next couple decades. With Darwin, an open source BSD Unix service, 2D (Quartz), 3D (OpenGL) and Quicktime (QT5). The programming language of Classic, Carbon and Cocoa allowed programs from OS9 to run. Cocoa is an object oriented API for […]
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7min
January 05, 2019 January 5, 1984: GNU Project Founded
1984 – Richard Stallman quit his job at MIT to begin the writing of GNU software. GNU – a recursive acronym for “Not Unix” and reference to the song “the Gnu” – is an operating system that is compatible with Unix software. Stallman wanted to bring a free software operating system for the masses to use […]
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FAQs about Day in Tech History Podcast - Apple History:

How many episodes does Day in Tech History Podcast - Apple History have?

The podcast currently has 136 episodes available.