The rewrite of Finder in Apple's native Cocoa API allows the Finder to take advantage of the new technologies introduced in Snow Leopard.

Nearly all graphical user interface toolkits to date provide at least one solution for designing MDIs, with an exception being Apple's Cocoa API.

Apple's Cocoa framework ( and related frameworks, such as Core Foundation ) use manual reference counting, much like COM.

On the Internet, the source code to a version of TextEdit enhanced to demonstrate the calling of Quartz Composer compositions from the Cocoa API can be found at Apple's developer website.

The Objective-C code base was re-introduced with some modifications to desktop application developers as Core Data, part of Apple's Cocoa API, with the release of Mac OS X Tiger in April 2005.

After some uncertainty about the future of AppleScript on Apple's next generation OS, the move to Mac OS X ( around 2002 ) and its Cocoa frameworks greatly increased the usefulness and flexibility of AppleScript.

* Apple's Foundation framework ( part of Cocoa ) provides the Objective-C classes,,,, and.

For example, Apple's Cocoa framework recommends this approach, by using strong references for parent-to-child references, and weak references for child-to-parent references, thus avoiding cycles.

Yellow Box was the OPENSTEP base of libraries and binary support which became Apple's Cocoa API.

Buzzlabs has a freeware version called Aquataxx for Mac OS X, written in the Java language with Apple's Cocoa Frameworks.

Attendees received Apple's first model of the iSight web camera ( to coincide with the launch of iChat AV ), pre-releases of Mac OS X 10. 3 and Mac OS X 10. 3 Server, the O ' Reilly book " Cocoa In A Nutshell ", and a 17-inch notebook carry bag.

* Stagecast Creator, formerly Apple's Cocoa: Internet Authoring for Kids

The new QuickTime 7 player application bundled with Tiger now includes more advanced audio and video controls as well as a more detailed Information dialog, and the new player has been rebuilt using Apple's Cocoa API to take advantage of the new technologies more easily.

* Xcode 2. 0 — Xcode 2. 0, Apple's Cocoa development tool now includes visual modelling, an integrated Apple Reference Library and graphical remote debugging.

A related project was NeoOffice / C, which was a simultaneous effort to develop a version using Apple's Cocoa APIs.

While Cocoa applications are not AEOM based, and often use subtly different objects than Apple's originally defined standard objects, Cocoa apps are generally much more scriptable than their " classic " counterparts — in fact, it is uncommon to find a Cocoa application that is not scriptable to some degree.

It is based on Cocoa and complies with Apple's user interface guidelines.

Throughout the continuing saga there remained a core of loyal MacApp users who grew increasingly frustrated at Apple's behavior, which by the late 1990s had grown to outright dismissal of their own product during the introduction of Cocoa.

* Apple's Interface Builder description for Cocoa and Carbon development

Apple iOS devices, like the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, can use Apple's MobileMe subscription service to synchronize calendar, address book, mail account, Internet bookmark, and other data with one or more Macintosh or Windows computers using Wi-Fi or cellular data connections.

The introduction of Apple's App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch in July 2008 popularized manufacturer-hosted online distribution for third-party applications focused on a single platform.

In addition, a port of the game for Apple's mobile devices ( iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad ) and Android devices is planned for the summer of 2012.

Apple's " Remote " application for iPhone and iPod Touch also uses Bonjour to establish connection to iTunes libraries via Wi-Fi.

It is officially supported on the iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod Touch ( 4th and 5th generations ), iPad 2, and iPad ( 3rd generation ), but hackers have discovered that it can be installed manually on older devices using Apple's iPhone Configuration Utility application.

( i. e. Apple's Color ( previously Silicon Color Final Touch ), ASSIMILATE SCRATCH, Adobe SpeedGrade, SGO Mistika, etc .).

* In December 2009, Epic demoed UE3 running on Apple's 3rd generation iPod Touch.

for iOS, on Apple's iOS operating system for its iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch hardware.

In 2008, Atari released the game for the iPhone and iPod Touch via Apple's App Store.

* Apple A4, microprocessor used in Apple's iPad, iPhone 4, 4th generation iPod Touch and 2nd generation Apple TV.

Apple's iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch are acquiring status as e-book readers through a variety of e-reader apps.

The manga has been released for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch at Apple's iTunes App Store and it's also available in English.

* iPhone: Apple's mobile-phone reached the same level (" VERY GOOD ") of its " iPod brother ", the iPod Touch, with the grade 8 / 10.

The game was later ported to Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch on November 14, 2009.

NFL-licensed NFL Quarterback Challenge, created by ProAppSports and produced by Adisoft Studios is currently available on Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch devices.

Apple's App Store along with the iOS SDK, has created a much larger market for gaming on iOS, the common operating system for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.

Originally inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework.

* Apple's Mac OS X MAC framework is an implementation of the TrustedBSD MAC framework.

Oddly, even Apple's own application framework, MacApp, did not offer such a model except for the GUI objects it knew about, once again making the developer do most of the work of scripting the objects representing the data itself.

; Accelerate: Apple's framework for Mac OS X and iOS, which includes tuned versions of BLAS and LAPACK.

Other implementations include Apple's Bonjour framework ( the mDNSResponder component of which is licensed under the Apache License ).

Widgets themselves are, at the core, simply HTML files that are displayed within the Dashboard layer ; they use the WebKit application framework that is also used in Apple's Safari web browser, meaning even users running earlier versions of Mac OS X — where Dashboard is unavailable — can build them.

Apple's proprietary iPod OS in contrast uses an invisible boot loader and is based on an ARM processor kernel originally written by Pixo, and the iPod Miller Columns browser program, a GUI written by Apple and Pixo using the Pixo application framework, and other firmware and component drivers written from manufacturer's reference code to support the standard behavior Apple wanted iPod to have.

While it is possible to delete the application itself without problem, Safari is in fact merely a front-end for Apple's open source WebKit framework, which is heavily integrated into the operating system and cannot be removed.

* Scriptable Image Processing System, a command line interface to Apple's Core Image framework.