Flipboard’s Surf, which I first wrote about in 2024, is finally available without an invite as a web and Android app. (iOS still has a waitlist.) It’s a wildly inventive and invigorating way to find stuff that’s actually worth reading, watching, and listening to. https://www.fastcompany.com/91520679/surf-flipboard

I guested on our Most Innovative Companies podcast to talk about Apple’s early history and my oral history about it. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/most-innovative-companies/id1576874503?i=1000758930856

As I never tire of mentioning, Microsoft seriously considered buying PC Magazine not long after it launched in 1982. https://www.wsj.com/cmo-today/openai-buys-tech-industry-talk-show-tbpn-484c01c5?st=RUVFWn

This story is mostly about NeXT, but also seems worth re-sharing today. https://www.fastcompany.com/90541084/this-unheard-steve-jobs-tape-is-part-of-an-amazing-trove-of-tech-history

I don‘t quite go back to 1976 as an Apple-watcher, but here’s a piece I wrote about having m socks blasted right off by a Lisa demo at the Boston Computer Society in 1983. https://www.fastcompany.com/40514962/this-1983-demo-says-so-much-about-apples-past-present-and-future

Apple’s homepage has a fun 50th anniversary product video, but I’m still mystified by the company’s failure to celebrate these two guys named Steve. https://www.apple.com/

When I talked to Woz last week for this oral history, he told me that he considers *tomorrow* to be Apple’s 50th anniversary. His reasoning is above my pay grade (“Our human calendar is very weak”). But it delights me, because it’s also my birthday. https://www.fastcompany.com/91514404/apple-founding-50th-anniversary-apple-1-apple-ii-jobs-wozniak?mvgt=RkD1c7U8rLh7

“The overarching goal for the X platform is to be the best source of truth in the world.”—Elon Musk

I wrote about Sora’s demise—I, for one, will miss it—and what it augers for OpenAI and maybe other AI companies as well. https://www.fastcompany.com/91516193/openai-sora-discontinued