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Founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, and established in Cupertino, California as Apple Computer Inc. on April 1, 1976, the company kept its longer title until 2007. On January 9, 2007, the computer company renamed itself Apple, Inc. to reflect its role in the consumer electronics and music industry. Apple is an environmentally conscious company in four specific areas : product and package design, manufacturing, energy efficiency, and recycling.

Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets personal computers, portable digital music players, and mobile communication devices and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, and networking solutions. The Company sells its products worldwide through its online stores, its retail stores, its direct sales force, and third-party wholesalers, resellers, and value-added resellers. In addition, the Company sells a variety of third-party Macintosh (Mac), iPod and iPhone compatible products, including application software, printers, storage devices, speakers, headphones, and various other accessories and peripherals through its online and retail stores, , and digital content through the iTunes Store. It sells to consumer, small and mid-sized business (SMB), education, enterprise, government, and creative customers.

Media History

Now, you should be aware before continuing your reading ... I am a really true pro Apple ! I won't speak here about Apple Computers hardware technology ( there are many pages around the web about the subject ) but as this is a passionated Apple Fanlisting ,) it's good to remember the importance of Apple and its effects on the technology industry ... :)

Since the beginning of Computing History, Apple has introduced many innovations and ideas that had significant effects on the computer industry, especially in the area of communications standards. One of the first was the introduction of the SCSI interface in 1986, the introduction of the standard audio in and out ports in 1990. The Macintosh, introduced in 1984, added a versatility that put the machine many years ahead of its competition. 1984 is most famous for Apple's Super Bowl advertisement to introduce the personal computer. Aired in the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII, the commercial, titled 1984, was directed by Ridley Scott. The commercial was modeled after George Orwell's novel 1984.





The year 1991 saw the much-anticipated release of System 7, a 32-bit rewrite of the Macintosh operating system that improved its handling of color graphics, memory addressing, networking, and co-operative multitasking, and introduced virtual memory ! Beginning with the iMac in 1998, Apple made the USB ( Universal Serial Bus ) port a standard and introduced the FireWire port, a high speed data transfer bus that is now included in many media-editing oriented computers. Apple also innovated in the area of networking, beginning with heavy marketing of the existing standard for WiFi, or AirPort and its early implementation in the Macintosh portable lines in 1999. Apple has also contributed heavily to the field of mobile computing, and many of the features they have added throughout the years to their mobile lines have become standard in today's industries. Mac OS continued to evolve up to version 9.2.2, but its dated architecture made a replacement necessary ...

Apple consumers are known as unusually free thinking and unusually devoted. Surveys by J.D. Power show that Apple has the highest brand and repurchased loyalty of any other computer manufacturer. Apple consumers are quite artistic, creative, and well-educated. These consumers react best to artistic, free-thinking advertising messages. Each new Apple store opening draws crowds of thousands who stand in line for hours. In the late 1990's, Apple's New York advertising agency TBWA/Chiat/Day compiled the Think Different campaign.

The Mac OS X Revolution and Apple-Intel transition
All of Steve Jobs operational responsibilities at Apple were "taken away" on May 31, 1985. So, Steve Jobs had come up with an idea for a startup to create the perfect research computer ( for Universities and research labs ) ... The startup was NeXT Computer Inc.
Steve Jobs unveiled the first NeXT Computer ( based on UNIX programmation and running NEXTSTEP 0.8 ) on October, 1988. NEXTSTEP 1.0 shipped on September 1988. NEXTSTEP 2.0 was released exactly a year later on September, 1990. Even though STEP ran on many architectures ( multi-architecture "fat binaries" were introduced by NeXT ) by 1996, things were not looking so good for them, and NeXT was giving more importance to WebObjects, a development tool for the Web.
NeXT contacted Apple to discuss possibilities of licensing OPENSTEP. Steve Jobs pitched NeXT technology very strongly to Apple, and asserted that OPENSTEP was many years ahead of its time. All this worked out, and Apple acquired NeXT in February, 1997.
Steve Jobs became the interim CEO of Apple on September 16, 1997 and Mac OS X was first mentioned in Apple's OS strategy announcement at the 1998 WWDC.
Mac OS X did come out in 1999 ... MAC OS X is a descendent of NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP.


Mac OS X is a line of computer operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc., and since 2002 has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems. It is the successor to Mac OS 9, the final release of the classic Mac OS, which had been Apple's primary operating system since 1984. Mac OS X, whose "X" represents the Roman numeral for "10" and is a prominent part of its brand identity, is a Unix-based operating system, built on technologies developed at NeXT ! :)


In April 2002, a rumor reported that Apple had a version of Mac OS X code-named Marklar which ran on Intel x86 processors ... On June 6, 2005, Steve Jobs confirmed these rumors when he announced in his keynote address at the annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference that Apple would be making the transition from PowerPC to Intel processors over the following two years, and that Mac OS X would support both platforms during the transition. Its sixth and most recent version, Mac OS X 10.5 ( Leopard ) is certified Unix03 while running on Intel processors.
Apple also produces specialized versions of Mac OS X for use on three of its consumer devices; the iPhone OS for the iPhone, and the iPod Touch, and an unnamed version for the Apple TV ...

Do I really need to introduce iPod ? ;)

The History of the iPhone began with Steve Jobs direction that Apple engineers investigate touch-screens. Many have noted the device's similarities to Apple's previous touch-screen portable device, the Newton MessagePad ( another out of world Apple's innovation of the 90's ) ...
Like the Newton, the iPhone is nearly all screen. On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs announced the iPhone at the Macworld convention, receiving substantial media attention, and on June 11, 2007 announced at the Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference that the iPhone would support third-party applications using the Safari engine on the device. Third-parties would create the Web 2.0 applications and users would access them via the internet.
The first publicly released iPhone 3G ad was first shown at WWDC 2008 :)

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Credits

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I wanted to make these pages a bit more than just a picture inside a layout which would only tell : be a fan ... In fact, I think that every fan of any subject deserves a bit more, more pictures ( when it is possible ) and more texts too. I wanted to make this fanlisting a subject of joyness for all our members :) I still do not know if it's ok but, well, I really hope so.

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This site has been made on Macintosh computer that we support in many occasions ( of course ) :) So, everything here is optimized for Safari, Camino, Omniweb, Shiira and Firefox users ... This site is not always fully viewable with Explorer ... until a reasonable web standard compliant version ( 8 or 9 ) !?

Thanks to the previous owner of this fanlisting : Hysterical Useless, to let me adopt it :)



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