Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. Bill Atkinson, one of the original engineers on the Macintosh ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. Steve Jobs, dressed in a black double-breasted blazer and grey ...

Apple announced the Macintosh 41 years ago today, introducing the first widely successful personal computer with a graphical user interface. The Macintosh revolutionized personal computing by ...

From mouse inputs to app icons, many of the aspects we take for granted about the computers we use every day were introduced to the world by Apple’s original Macintosh in 1984. Apple launched the ...

January 24 marks the 40th anniversary of Steve Jobs unveiling the Macintosh, the first successful mass-marketed computer with a graphical user interface. The original Macintosh popularized the ...

The original Macintosh computer may seem quaint today, but the way users interacted with it triggered a revolution 40 years ago. Technology innovation requires solving hard technical problems, right?

When a 28-year-old brash, bow-tie-wearing Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh PC on Jan. 24, 1984, few people knew how much one consumer tech product would change our lives. It delivered a bunch of ...

Bill Atkinson, a pioneering computer engineer and programmer at Apple, instrumental in the creation of the Macintosh computer in January 1984, died June 5. Atkinson, 74, passed away at his home in ...

One of two Apple Macintosh prototypes extant and already the most valuable Apple Macintosh to have ever sold at auction, #M0001 is heading for auction at Bonhams’ History of Science & Technology Sale ...

To celebrate the 40th birthday of the Apple Lisa computer, the Computer History Museum (CHM) has released the source code for the first graphical user interface computer. The CHM has gained Apple's ...

Very nice insight from another industry great. Creating icons that are symbolic - not to mention instantly recognizable - is no easy task. In fact, that's why skeuomorphs were popular for so long - it ...

For those of you who think that you can simply write off Apple industrial design as insignificant, you're dead wrong. Apple has had great case designs in functionality since as far back as the Power ...