{"id":22790,"date":"2018-09-18T16:41:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T20:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22790"},"modified":"2018-09-18T16:41:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T20:41:58","slug":"an-oral-history-of-apples-infinite-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/18\/an-oral-history-of-apples-infinite-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"An Oral History of Apple’s Infinite Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steven Levy<\/a> (Hacker<\/a> News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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For more than a year I’ve been interviewing Apple employees, past and present, about their recollections of Infinite Loop. In their own words, edited for clarity and concision, here is the story of a plot of land in Cupertino, California, that brought us the Mac revival, the iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, and the Steve Jobs legacy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Previously: Oral History of Avie Tevanian<\/a>, Mike Slade on Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and Starwave History<\/a>, Scott Forstall Discusses the iPhone’s Creation<\/a>, Tony Fadell on Apple’s Pre-iPhone Devices<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steven Levy (Hacker News): For more than a year I’ve been interviewing Apple employees, past and present, about their recollections of Infinite Loop. In their own words, edited for clarity and concision, here is the story of a plot of land in Cupertino, California, that brought us the Mac revival, the iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-09-18T20:41:07Z","apple_news_api_id":"fc802b40-71f5-4914-910f-75cff98c3e23","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-09-18T20:42:01Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A_IArQHH1SRSRD3XP-Yw-Iw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1416,295,31,85,792,224,576,628,30,1372,1465,173,60,1535],"class_list":["post-22790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-eddy-cue","tag-history","tag-ios","tag-iphone","tag-ipod","tag-itunes","tag-john-sculley","tag-jonathan-ive","tag-mac","tag-phil-schiller","tag-scott-forstall","tag-stevejobs","tag-timcook","tag-tony-fadell"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22794,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22790\/revisions\/22794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}