Before Microsoft's Excel came about, a Harvard MBA student and his former MIT classmate built the first spreadsheet software for the Apple II. It was 1979 and Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston wanted ...

On the back of every iPhone and iPad, on the underside of every iPod and iMac, glistens the signature of Apple’s products: “Designed by Apple in California.” Apple, it’s often said, is a ...

So one of the many novel things that Apple did in this area was to very intentionally let the designers come up with the best possible design, and then have us figure out how to actually make it work.