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Apple Inc. is an American consumer electronics corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California. The company's best-known products include the Macintosh personal computers, the Mac OS X operating system, the iPod line of portable music players, and the iPhone, an advanced multimedia cellular phone using a multi-touch interface.
The Macintosh, or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured and marketed by Apple that run the Macintosh operating system ("Mac OS"). Named after the McIntosh apple, the original Macintosh was released on January 24, 1984. It was the first popular personal computer to use a graphical user interface (“GUI”) and mouse instead of the then-standard command line interface. Current Macintosh systems include the "budget" Mac mini desktop, the all-in-one iMac, the professional Mac Pro, the MacBook line of laptops, and the Xserve server.
iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application, launched by Apple Computer on January 9, 2001, for playing and organizing digital music and video files. The program is also the interface to manage the music on Apple's popular iPod digital audio player. Additionally, iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store (previously known as the iTunes Music Store or iTMS) which allows users to purchase digital music and movie files that can be played in iTunes and on compatible fifth-generation iPods.
iTunes has gained and maintained a reputation for being easy to use while still providing many features for obtaining, organizing, and playing music (as well as other media). The application (now in its seventh release) is freely downloadable, bundled with all Mac computers and iPods, and supplied with Mac OS X (iLife '06).
Infinite Loop is a street encircling the buildings of Apple Computer's headquarters in Cupertino, California. Each building has a number which is also its single-digit address on the Loop, and so Apple's official mailing address is "1 Infinite Loop". The loop connects to Mariani Avenue, which was the former street address of Apple HQ; early printed material contains the address "20525 Mariani Avenue".
Infinite Loop is at the southeast corner of De Anza Boulevard and Interstate 280. The main office, 1 Infinite Loop, directly faces De Anza Boulevard.
The name was inspired by the programming concept of the infinite loop. When Apple purchased a Cray X-MP in the 1980s, there was a saying: "A Cray is so fast it can execute an infinite loop in under 2 seconds!"
- January 5, 2008
- Mac Book Air released
- October 26, 2007
- Apple releases Leopard, the sixth major version of Mac OS X.
- August 8, 2007
- New iMacs (4th generation) released; 24inch (2.8/2.4GHz) and 20inch (2.4/2.0GHz)
- June 29, 2007
- Apple Stores and AT&T Stores begin sales of Apple's iPhone
- June 5, 2007
- New MacBook Pros introduced (802.11n) / LED backlight / Intel Santa Rosa Platform
- May 15, 2007
- New MacBook introduced (faster Core 2 Duo)
- April 14, 2007
- Final Cut Studio 2 (Final Cut 6) introduced
- April 9, 2007
- 100 million iPods have been sold
- April 4, 2007
- 8-core Mac Pro released
- brighter Cinema HD displays
- January 30, 2007
- Colors added to iPod shuffle
- January 12, 2007
- Cisco Sues Apple for iPhone Trademark
- January 9, 2007
- Apple introduces iPhone and Apple TV
- December 5, 2006
- Apple launches iTunes in New Zealand
Stephen "Woz" Wozniak (born August 11, 1950) is an American computer engineer turned philanthropist. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing greatly to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s. Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs in 1976 and created the Apple I and Apple II computers in the mid-1970s. The Apple II became the best selling computer of the 1970s and early 1980s, and is often credited as the first popular personal computer. Wozniak has several nicknames, including "(The) Woz" and "Wizard of Woz". "WoZ" (short for "Wheels of Zeus") is also the name of a company Wozniak founded. Woz also designed the classic Atari game Breakout. He is known for his introverted character, and he finds his level of celebrity somewhat annoying.
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