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16 December 2011
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Apple
Apple are reportedly in talks to purchase Israeli flash memory company for in excess of $400 million, and AppleInsider take a look at why Apple are making the move. Turns out, Apple are just interested in "packing more storage capacity into Mac and iOS devices at lower prices, with the same level of component reliability and longevity". Like the PA Semi acquisition back in 2008, we probably won't see the fruits of this (not-confirmed yet) acquisition for the next few years.
The documents that founded Apple Computer in 1976 have been sold at auction in New York for a staggering $1.6 million, over ten times the pre-sale estimate. Jump forward thirty years, and that 1.6 million is a mere drop in the ocean of Apple's cash reserves — and Apple itself is the most valuable publicly-traded company on the planet. If that doesn't give you an idea of how far we've come, then I'm not sure what does.
As it turns out, the Steve Jobs of 1980 wasn't too dissimilar to the Steve Jobs we knew up until too recently, and a video donated to the Computer History Museum shows exactly how that Steve Jobs was incredibly focused on the user experience, too.
A quick trip to the Terminal, and soon you will be jumping to the most recently used desktop space with a hidden gesture, as per this OS X Daily post.
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