Month: October 2025
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The Old and the New
The art auction house Christie’s was founded in 1766. The Art Authority Museum was founded in 2024. Last week Apple brought the two together. In their press release announcing the new Vision Pro M5, Apple highlighted a few of the key apps on that Future-setting device. There are over 1 million apps available for Apple…
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2008: Envisioning the iPhone, part 4 (apps)
As mentioned, the iPhone App Store opened on July 10, 2008 with over 500 apps, including iEnvision from Open Door Networks. Even Steve Jobs grossly underestimated the degree to which the App Store would be instrumental in distributing the Future, predicting there would ultimately be thousands of apps. In the first year alone, the number…
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2007: Envisioning the iPhone, part 3
Steve Jobs died 14 years ago today, October 5, 2011. Steve was not only a great visionary, but he was a great showman as well. Those two came together most historically when he introduced the iPhone at MacWorld San Francisco on January 9, 2007. That iPhone keynote was so brilliant, so prescient and so important…
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