One of the guys at the office came in with his newly purchased AIRPODS last week. And one of the questions he was asked by an ‘apple freak’ sounded like, what if these get lost, how do you live with yourself? Okay, I probably exaggerated a little. But at $159 (about 50,000naira), we can all agree that it is not exactly cheap to buy a new pair. But before pulling out your credit card, it’s…

Here are 31 photos of how Apple came to rule the world. Apple was cofounded on April 1, 1976, by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in Los Altos, California. There was a third co-founder, too, named Ronald Wayne. Jobs brought Wayne on board to provide business guidance for the two young co-founders, but he ended up leaving the company before it was even officially incorporated. Wayne took an $800 check for his shares in the…

There is a baseline assumption, mostly among ‘techies’ that the smartest people doing the most interesting things are all in Silicon Valley. I also share a bit of this sentiment, but I think it is not entirely true. There are undoubtedly many very smart people in Silicon Valley, but it is also true that most people in Silicon Valley don’t really know what’s going on with the rest of the world. I know there are…

Before the Web, we had Scientists and individuals writing long free-formed documents that references other documents, these references are done in form of citations. Now, as a consumer of one of these documents, what you have to do is, read the citation and then send for a copy of the document via mail or you would go to the library. This was pretty tedious, so from the point of view of the consumer, what you…