Apple was today granted a patent on the way it displays apps on the Apple Watch. It’s one of the briefest patent descriptions around, merely pointing to the associated illustration. The ornamental ...

The original Macintosh computer may seem quaint today, but the way users interacted with it triggered a revolution 40 years ago. Technology innovation requires solving hard technical problems, right?

Apple announced the Macintosh 41 years ago today, introducing the first widely successful personal computer with a graphical user interface. The Macintosh revolutionized personal computing by ...

In a world in which music videos can be shot on an iPhone, and more design is seemingly done on screen than off, the idea that computers can shape how artists and designers create things seems obvious ...

Thirty years ago today, Apple released the Macintosh -- the computer that brought the graphical user interface (GUI) to the masses. Since then, the platform has been through hell and back. The Mac ...

The Mac's graphical user interface (GUI) was actually developed by Xerox and introduced on its Star workstation in 1981. Apple borrowed heavily from the Star, and subsequently, others copied the Mac, ...

From mouse inputs to app icons, many of the aspects we take for granted about the computers we use every day were introduced to the world by Apple’s original Macintosh in 1984. Apple launched the ...

On January 24, 1984, Apple Computer introduced Macintosh. Thirty years ago, Apple Computer introduced Macintosh. The computing universe was far different back then, and this groundbreaking little ...

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A graphical user interface (GUI, pronounced “gooey”) is a computer environment that simplifies the user’s interaction with the computer by representing programs, commands, files, and other options as ...