The Story of AppStorey
AppStorey is a video Documentary and a three part series the rise of the post-war, general purpose digital computer — the computer we know today didn’t have to be like it is. the rise of the software...
View ArticleElectronic Distribution. This article first published in print, Summer 1992
This article was first published in print in the AppWrapper Vol 2, No. 2 Summer, 1992 Electronic Distribution, Summer, 1992 printable PDF Document. Editor’s Note: It’s interesting to see how much...
View ArticleNeXT Turns 30, Article explains the reason for AppStorey
Salvador Rodriguez blogs about the reason behind AppStorey and why this time is so historic. Jobs began work on NeXT in 1985 with the goal of creating the most powerful computer of all time after being...
View ArticleElectronic Recollections, By Ricard Carey
Richard Carey is an author and philosopher at large in Ashland Oregon today. In the early 1990’s he was working for the startup that invented the first AppStore and, as startups always are, it was a...
View ArticleAlex Cone, master level software designer and NeXT expert interviews for...
July 2015, New York City. Alex Cone, master level software designer and NeXT expert interviews for AppStorey People who just don’t fundamentally care if it’s good enough or not are the enemy of those...
View ArticleWall St Equity Trading Software Veteran, Hadar Pedhazur talks Steve Jobs,...
July 19, 2015, New York City Wall St Equity Trading Software Veteran, Hadar Pedhazur talks Steve Jobs, NeXT and advanced computing to AppStorey Hadar Pedhazur is the owner of Opticality Ventures, a...
View ArticleDid the AppStore make the iPhone, or did the iPhone make the AppStore?
By Jesse Tayler Did the AppStore make the iPhone, or did the iPhone make the AppStore? Now before you point out that however sophisticated your iPhone, it’s hardly inventing software just yet. Please,...
View ArticleOne Hundred Billion Downloads Later, The First AppStore
The First AppStore, One Hundred Billion Downloads Later Jesse Tayler, AppStore inventor, demonstrates the Electronic AppWrapper on his NeXT Computer. The AppStore, had humble beginnings as a grassroots...
View ArticleThe Earliest Web; The Story of NetSurfer
It’s hard to imagine a web browser without even the most fundamental features we associate with a web browser of today. Take the URL bar, a back-button or a bookmark — all these ideas had to get...
View ArticleAndrew Stone was in the AppStore 20 years before you
Today Andrew C. Stone might best be known for his iOS app Twittelator selling millions of copies on the iOS AppStore. But in 1990, Andy was building and selling apps via the Electronic AppWrapper, the...
View ArticleThe Earliest Web; The Story of SpiderWoman
Firefox, Safari, Opera, Explorer or Chrome… today we pick our favorite web-browser as if it’s our preferred chocolate out of the box. And we take for granted the presence of common browser elements,...
View ArticleJesse Tayler talks AppStore and NeXTSTEP with AppStorey
In the early days of personal computing, there were a lot of different computers, each seemed to have a place in the world. Until one. The NeXT Computer. October 12, 1988, Computing Advances to the...
View ArticleOn Apple’s 40th Anniversary, Eric Bergerson tells how Apple was built upon...
Today is April 1, 2016 —April Fools Day, and Apple is now 40 years old. It is no longer Apple Computer, but simply Apple. CEO Tim Cook says Apple is at “childhood’s end” but how did Apple really get...
View ArticleDean Zarras Tells AppStorey how NeXT first brought Object Oriented Tools to...
Dean Zarras is a computer scientist, software engineer and business entrepreneur. Today, Dean is CEO and Founder of ClearFactr an online spreadsheet innovation that is just opening its offerings to the...
View ArticleFred Lunau tells AppStorey about Mission Critical Custom Applications and...
Today, Fred Lunau is an eLearning Technologist and an experienced Technical Sales Manager in the eastern United States, but in 1990 —Fred was working as a Sales Engineer or “SE” for NeXT Computers,...
View ArticleKen Anderson tells AppStorey about the moment NeXT was brought to Phibro...
“Small teams make the software that makes a difference in our world, not big ones” — Ken Anderson for AppStorey Today, Ken Anderson is a successful mobile, and server systems engineer and entrepreneur,...
View ArticleParents Just Don’t Understand (Steve Jobs’s NeXT Computer)
It’s 1988, there is no web to surf and if you switched on a Radio you might just hear Will Smith as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air sing his hit single “Parents Just Don’t Understand”. 1988 was also the...
View ArticleBebo White Talks High-Energy Physicists and History’s Greatest Computer
Today, Bebo White is a physicist and Departmental Associate Emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, but in 1990, he was helping define how computers would benefit particle physicists —and...
View ArticleOn the 11th Anniversary of Steve Jobs introducing the iPhone, Paul Jones...
What’s free, and what’s for sale. It’s 1990, there’s no web to surf and to get software, you have to drive to a store called Egg Head, a store where zero of the apps Apps are free. Paul Jones is a...
View ArticleMichael Baldwin talks Beauty, Steve Jobs & The Pursuit Of Elegance for AppStorey
Steve Jobs is known for elegant hardware but in the case of the NeXT Computer the beauty was more than skin deep. The NeXT Cube was a beautiful object whose operation exceeded the outward appearance....
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