Masa first encountered Steve Jobs in the mid-1980s at the annual Comdex trade fair in Las Vegas. Sometime in the summer of 1998, they had their first serious conversation under a cherry tree at the Woodside, California, home of Larry Ellison, boss of the Oracle software group and a fellow Japanophile.

Steve Jobs knew that constant busyness is the enemy of great ideas. Put his insight to use with the two-hour rule.

But even back in 2007, Nokia saw that the exclusive US iPhone distribution relationship Apple reached with Cingular (later acquired by AT&T) was both a strength and a weakness. To compete, the industry was famously forced to rally round Google’s Android, an operating system Steve Jobs once vowed to destroy .

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken a fresh jab at Apple, criticising the tech giant for relying too heavily on the iPhones long-standing success. During a podcast with YouTuber Joe Rogan, Zuckerberg mocked Apple for what he described as a lack of innovation in recent years.

Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, and now they’re just sitting on it 20 years later,' Mark Zuckerberg said, claiming that Apple has been "milking" the iPhone’s success by making incremental improvements rather than introducing transformative technologies.

It seems to be a week for interesting peeks at Apple history, a new piece telling the story of Softbank founder Masayoshi Son making a $17B gamble on the basis of a gentleman’s agreement with Steve Jobs.

In Joe Rogan's podcast, Mark Zuckerberg made several interesting statements, among other things, paying great attention to Apple.

The Meta chief says Apple essentially sat on the iPhone and hasn't made any remarkable progress. He didn't mention how Facebook flubbed phones and tablets.

"On the one hand, the iPhone has been great, as it has made phones accessible to nearly everyone around the world, enabling incredible things," Zuckerberg said. "But on the other hand, they've used that platform to impose rules that feel arbitrary,

In 1974, 19-year-old Steve Jobs embarked on a transformative journey to India, seeking spiritual enlightenment.

Life, much like the sea, is unpredictable. There are days when the waters are calm, inviting progress, and others when the storms prevent

No matter how great a company is, even the most successful product eventually matures and declines with the passage of time as rivals angle for a piece of the market your innovation created. A case in point is Apple’s iPhone,