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With poor finances and a muddled product lineup, Jobs had quite a task ahead of him to get his company back to where he felt it should be. In 1996, the then-ousted founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, made his return to the company as an “informal advisor” to the current CEO Gil Amelio and by July of 1997 Jobs had regained control of the company he and friends Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne founded in 1976. Not all the big moments for Apple have to do with hardware or software.
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Just like Photoshop helped get graphics professionals on board with the Mac, the Power PC and the 8500 helped get video professionals loving their Macs, too. In 1994 Apple first started using the PowerPC chip to replace the 68000 family of processors, giving the Mac more power and capabilities than ever before.įor example, the Power Macintosh 8500 pictured above was not only the first Mac, but the first computer to have Audio/Video import/export capabilities. The Power PCīefore the Intel-based Macs we know today existed, the processor-du-jour for Apple was Motorola’s PowerPC chip. If Photoshop 1.0 had originally come out for another system, the Apple we know and love today might be completely different. Photoshop starting its life on the Mac is one of the reasons why Apple is ubiquitous with the design community today. Jump forward to 1990 and Adobe Photoshop 1.0 was released solely for the Mac.
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He needed an application on his Macintosh Plus to display greyscale images on the Mac’s monochrome display and having no luck finding a proper one, he started to develop one himself.
Photoshop was originally created by Thomas Knoll in 1987.
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The PowerBook 140 and 170 (pictured above) are the original portable Macs, even though the Macintosh Portable was out a few years before, as the Portable wasn’t all that portable. With the keyboard pushed back closer to the screen, the user could rest his or her palms on the computer itself for better typing and comfort. The PowerBook included a battery, greyscale screen, keyboard, and a built-in trackball. The Macintosh PowerBook was the first completely portable Mac. The original Mac and its graphical user interface (GUI) changed the way the world looked at computers and with easy to understand icons like a trash can, folders, and even a smiley face to greet you, the original Mac from 1984 was definitely a big deal.Īdd to this the epic “1984” commercial Apple produced for the Macintosh’s release, and it’s easy to see why this was the first of Apple’s biggest moments.
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One of the biggest roadblocks to everyone being able to use a computer was the difficulty that came with learning how to use one, and that difficulty was removed when the original Macintosh came out. 1984 and the Commercial That Changed Everythingįor years computers were solely command-line driven and while that’s still great for power users, it was clear that something better needed to take shape. Oh, and these are ordered from oldest to newest, not by importance, since it’s basically impossible to say what the most important moment for Apple has ever been, especially without causing an Internet uproar. Have a favorite moment we didn’t list? Leave it in the comments below. Apple is celebrating their 30 th anniversary this month, and to join in the festivities, we thought it would be appropriate to look back through 30 years of innovation and technology at Apple to see what the biggest and brightest moments were.Ĭheck out our list of the top 15 moments in the past 30 years of Apple.
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