Posted by Michael Pinto on Jun 25, 2010 in
Tech 
A while ago former Apple CEO John Sculley gave an interview in which he confessed to deeply regret his firing of Steve Jobs twenty five years ago. To many it seems obvious that Jobs should have been running the company just as Bill Gates did with Microsoft. However I think Sculley firing Steve Jobs was in fact the best thing that he could have ever done for Apple, and perhaps the entire computer industry. Read more…
Tags: Amiga, Apple, C64, HyperCard, Newton, Steve Jobs
Posted by Michael Pinto on Jun 22, 2009 in
Tech,
Videogames 
If you’re a retro computing fanboy like me on Saturday you were devastated to learn that Apple denied permission to the developer who created a Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone. Now normally this news wouldn’t surprise me, but what broke my fanboy heart is that the developer jumped through all the right hoops: Not only did they get a license from the owners of Commodore but they even got positive signals early on from Apple. Read more…
Tags: Apple, C64, iPhone, Retro Computing, Retro Games, Retrogaming
