by Cody Bromley
4 min read
For most of the twentieth century, you couldn't buy a Coca-Cola in the Soviet Union. It was one of the most American things in existence, and like Levi's and Michael Jackson, the Iron Curtain kept it out.
by Cody Bromley
9 min read
Today is Apple's 50th birthday. Tim Cook shared a letter about "50 Years of Thinking Different." There are animated homepages, Paul McCartney concerts at Apple Park, commemorative t-shirts, David Pogue just published Apple: The First 50 Years and there's a lot of well-earned celebration for a company that really has put a dent in the universe.
But I've been thinking different about a lost side of Apple's legacy. The side that hides yaks in software.
by Cody Bromley
3 min read
On the Macintosh episode of Version History, David Pierce and Nilay Patel had a lot of fun riffing about Mr. Macintosh, Steve Jobs's obscure concept for a digital cryptid who lives in your computer.
About 15 years later, Apple actually shipped something very similar, except instead of a mysterious little man it was a yak named Bruce.
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