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Sam Grobart looks at what effect the departures of Steven P. Jobs have had on Apple and its products.

Steve Jobs’s announcement on Jan. 14 that he will be taking a medical leave from Apple is not the first time the company will go without his services, as Mr. Jobs was not at Apple from 1985 to 1997. A look at Apple’s products before, during and after that time shows what effect Mr. Jobs has had on the company.

Timeline by NYtimes.com here.

On the Mac’s silver anniversary, we look at where it’s been—and where it’s headed next.
by Macworld Staff, Macworld.com

It seems like only yesterday that Macworld released its first issue, with a youthful, besuited Steve Jobs peering over a trio of original Macs on the cover.

OK, maybe not yesterday. But those 25 years seem to have come and gone as quickly as so many Apple CEOs. And that quarter of a century has given us the countless advances and changes—in software, hardware design, operating systems, and more—that make the Mac what it is today. But that’s the old news. What’s more important is what your Mac will be like next year, or the year after that, or five years from now. How will Apple’s ongoing endeavors and other technological developments impact the devices you use in the near future?

In this series, we take a look at how some of today’s trends are driving the technology of tomorrow, as well as how some of the past 25 years’ significant events brought us to where we are today. We’ve also asked some longtime members of the Mac community to share their thoughts on various aspects of the last two and a half decades.

25 Years of the Mac | Macworld