e73 – The iMac at 20

We celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of the original iMac, tracing how the revolutionary Bondi gumdrop evolved into flagship desktop Mac of today.

Follow Up

• Steve Jobs App Store interview
• Love Notes to Newton now available

History of the iMac line

• iMac G3
  • Simple Beep e39
  • Stephen Hackett's iMacs at the Ford Museum
  • Simple Beep e23

Not quite.

• iMac G4
  • leaked in TIME magazine
  • design introduction at Macworld SF 2002
  • "tongue" ad
  • Pixar's Luxo Jr.
  • Apple Pro Speakers
  • iSub and SoundSticks
• iMac G5
  • "From the creators of iPod"
  • Front Row
• Intel iMac
  • introduction with MacBook Pro
• Aluminum iMac
• Slim unibody iMac
• Retina iMac and iMac Pro
  • SO MANY PIXELS
• iMac precursors
  • Macintosh Color Classic
    • G3 upgrade

e72 – The App Store at 10

We celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the App Store launching on July 10, 2008. After a brief history of the store itself, we pick some of our favorite, most influential early iOS apps.

• Follow up: Apple Causal
  • Ink
• The Sweet Solution
  • Steve's announcement
  • Gruber's take
  • Phil Schiller's reaction [🤬 audio]
  • PastryKit
• App Store launch
  • There's an App for That
  • Timeline of App Store changes

Our app picks

• Pandora
  • Ed's Pandora setup
  • PandoraJam
• Facebook
  • Springboard-like interface
  • Joe Hewitt's Three20
  • "Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny"
• Shazam
  • Apple acquisition
• Instapaper
  • GDPR woes
• 1Password
  • Apple acquisition??? (no.)
• Simplenote
  • Gruber's review
  • redesign by tap tap tap
• Twinkle
  • Tapulous
• Neven Mrgan's web apps
  • Glyphboard
  • Pie Guy
  • …and his native apps
• Tap Tap Revenge
• Picross
  • for Nintendo DS
  • PicGrid, Pixelogic, Paint it Back, Picross Touch
  • Hexologic
• Yelp
• Wimbledon

e71 – Apple Typography

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Great typography has been part of Apple products since the original Macintosh. From 1-bit wonders to Thinking Different in Garamond to SF Mono, we examine decades of Apple's fonts on screen and in print.

Follow Up

• QuickTime getting deprecated
  • QuickTime 7 vs. X
• Vox Plus twitter bot

Typography

• "Hidden Sheep and Typography Archaeology"
• specimens on GitHub
• font files on GitHub
• Early Macintosh Fonts suitcase
• list of original Mac fonts
• Susan Kare at Layers 2015
• Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
• Taliesin/Mobile/meubles
• List of marketing fonts
• Apple's Mac hardware font
• Simple Beep World Tour shirts

A plague of frogs and other dingbats.

e70 – AirPort

Apple has officially discontinued its AirPort line of wireless products after nearly 20 years(!) We examine how our Wi-Fi has evolved from the original iBook until today.

Follow Up

• hire Ed!
• Douglas Adams’s DragThing feature request
  • e42
  • Frontier
  • coverage on Daring Fireball
• Cancel/OK sticky notes
• Apple Glyph a Day

AirPort

• Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers – Bloomberg
• final cancellation
• 802.11 standards
  • Wi-Fi Alliance
• AirPort intro at MacWorld NY 1999
  • iBook G3
  • Phil Schiller’s death drop
• AirPort website at launch
• Lucent WaveLAN

• ad for original AirPort Base Station
• AirPort Card
  • PDF manual
  • adapter for iMac G3
• AirPort Extreme
• AirPort Express
  • AirTunes (later AirPlay)
  • Wireless distribution system (WDS)
• 802.11n update announced via press release
• Time Capsule
• removal of “AirPort” references from Mac OS Lion
• teardown of tower AirPort Base Station

e69 – Apple's Education Initiatives

Apple's March 2018 event highlighted how they've been working in the education space for over 40 years. We pick some of our favorite products and programs they've developed for schools, students, and teachers.

Follow Up

• The Secret History of Mac Gaming
• ambrosiasw.com not dead!

Hardware

• Macintosh LC family
  • At Ease
  • All-in-one Power Macintosh 5200 LC
• eMate
  • our Newton episode
  • AlphaSmart
    • Stephen Hackett's AlphaSmart video
• G3 all-in-one "Molar Mac"
• eMac
• laptop charging carts
  • iBook cart on Low End Mac
  • iPad and iBook carts on Connected
  • current MacBook/iPad cart
• Macintosh 512Ke / Macintosh ED

Software

• Apple Logo
  • in Apple Education Newsletter #3
• Apple Media Tool
  • AMT fact sheet
  • AMT vs. Director (MacUser October 1994)
• Apple Home Learning
  • WiggleWorks
  • Earth Explorer
    • Enteractive, Inc.
  • Michael Spindler

Publications and Programs

As I took my hand-built Apple I into Steve Bradley’s computer lab at Homestead High School in 1977, can confirm https://t.co/l8MYL3pYkl

— Chris Espinosa (@cdespinosa) March 27, 2018

• Kids Can't Wait
• MECC partnership
• Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow (ACOT℠)
  • example research report
  • outcomes of the program
  • more outcomes and amazing video
• Apple Distinguished Educator program
• Think Different marketing
  • letter to teachers included with poster set
  • MLK fold-out poster