Jean-Louis Gassée, who resigned in 1990 as chief of Apple's product development, came to serve on UserLand's board of directors.

In keeping with Apple's practice from the Apple II + until the Power Macintosh G3 was announced, a logic board upgrade was available to convert a regular SE to a SE / 30.

The G3 used Apple's new " Gossamer " logic board, which had originally been developed with an eye towards maximum compatibility with PC components.

As a compact and versatile motherboard, the Gossamer board was originally designed to be able to support both the high-end PowerPC 604e and the new PowerPC G3, but when initial tests found that the cheaper G3 outperformed the 604e in many tests, this functionality was removed and Apple's 604e-based systems died a quiet death.

Having joined Apple in 1980, he rose through the ranks in Apple's European operations as President of Apple Europe and was chosen to take over as CEO when John Sculley was ousted by Apple's board of directors in June 1993.

She joined Apple's board of directors on January 7, 2008.

On Tuesday November 15, 2011, Apple, Inc., now led by Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook after Steve Jobs's death, named Iger as a Director and named Genentech Chairman Arthur Levinson, an Apple board member with a past membership on rival Google's board, as Jobs's replacement in the role of non-executive Chairman ; both will serve on Apple's Audit Committee ( Jobs had worked with Iger in the Pixar acquisition-making Jobs Disney's largest shareholder, and Iger had let ABC shows become available on iTunes ).

In 1997, three years after the lawsuit was decided, all lingering infringement questions against Microsoft regarding the Lisa and Macintosh GUI as well as Apple's " QuickTime piracy " lawsuit against Microsoft were settled in direct negotiations.

The first Macintosh, released in 1984, had such limited memory ( 128 kB ) that Apple's developers decided early on to abandon the multi-tasking that Apple had developed for the Lisa.

Apple's management decided that the product was doomed to fail in a market where AOL had such a commanding lead.

When all of Apple's " official " cross-platform projects were finally in their death throes, the team decided to take it upon themselves to fix the problem, and announced in late 1996 that they would be providing a cross-platform version of MacApp instead.

Apple's OS X and iOS are direct descendants of NeXTSTEP, through the OPENSTEP lineage.

Originally developed by NeXT as NeXTMail, a part of their NeXTSTEP operating system, it was adapted, following Apple's acquisition of NeXT, to become OS X's Mail application.

The Apple I was Apple's first product, and to finance its creation, Jobs sold his only means of transportation, a VW van and Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator for $ 500.

This was essentially a replacement for Apple's connector that had conventional phone jacks instead of Apple's round connectors.

One common replacement for LocalTalk was PhoneNet, a 3rd party solution ( from a company called Farallon, now called Netopia ) that also used the RS-422 port and was indistinguishable from LocalTalk as far as Apple's LocalTalk port drivers were concerned, but ran over the two unused wires in standard four-wire phone cabling.

It was also known to work with Apple's iChat Client.

Due to Apple's moves and the mounting debt of Be Inc., BeOS was soon ported to the Intel x86 platform with its R3 release in March 1998.

At one point in its development it was intended for use with Apple's Newton computer, but the Dylan implementation did not reach sufficient maturity in time, and Newton instead used a combination of C and the NewtonScript developed by Walter Smith.

In 1984, Apple founder Steve Jobs was the head of Apple's SuperMicro division, which was responsible for the development of the Macintosh and Lisa personal computers.

By launching the archive as a web app, Playboy was able to circumvent both Apple's App Store content restrictions and their 30 % subscription fee.

In August 2006, the Power Mac's retirement was announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference by Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller, making way for its Intel-based replacement, the Mac Pro.

) As the Power Mac was originally intended to be a part of the high end of Apple's product line, for a number of years the company continued to offer less expensive 68k-based computers alongside the more expensive Power Mac lineup.

The Power Mac brand name was used for Apple's high-end tower style computers, targeted primarily at businesses and creative professionals, in differentiation to their more compact " iMac " line ( intended for home use ) and the " eMac " line ( for the education markets ).

Apple's Cocoa Touch framework, used on its iOS devices, also uses manual reference counting, and does not support automatic garbage collection, though Automatic Reference Counting was added in iOS 5 and Mac OS X 10. 7.

It was designed to be more powerful than the IBM Personal Computer, and comparable to Apple's Macintosh.

Samba runs on most Unix and Unix-like systems, such as GNU / Linux, Solaris, AIX and the BSD variants, including Apple's Mac OS X Server ( which was added to the Mac OS X client in version 10. 2 ).

Meanwhile, in exchange for Truetype, Apple got a license for TrueImage, a PostScript-compatible page description language owned by Microsoft that Apple could use in their laser printers. This was never actually included in any Apple products when a later deal was struck between Apple and Adobe, where Adobe promised to put a TrueType interpreter in their PostScript printer boards, Apple renewed its agreements with Adobe for the use of PostScript in its printers ; resulting in lower royalty payments to Adobe who was beginning to license printer controllers capable of competing directly with Apple's LaserWriter printers.

The main theme for Chariots of Fire was also chosen by Apple's co-founder Steven P. Jobs for the public introduction of the first Macintosh computer, in January 1984.

* The mouse was not invented at PARC, but by Douglas Engelbart in 1963, Apple's mouse was an improvement on PARC's version.

xYzZY is used as the default boundary marker by the Perl HTTP :: Message module for multipart MIME messages, and was used in Apple's AtEase for workgroups as the default administrator password in the 1990s.

Apple's Mac OS X v10. 3 ( Panther ) and v10. 4 ( Tiger ) include X11. app, based on XFree86 4. 3 and X11R6. 6, with better Mac OS X integration.

From 2003 to 2005 it was held in June to better distribute Apple's show commitments.

Final Cut Pro 7 claims better integration with Apple's other professional applications and improved codec support for editing HD, DV and SD video formats, including encoding presets for devices such as iPod, Apple TV, and Blu-ray discs.

* QuickTime 7 — A new version of Apple's multimedia software has support for the new H. 264 / AVC codec which offers better quality and scalability than other video codecs.

But Oracle Card had no broad, commercial success as a development platform, despite the fact that its feature set surpassed that of Apple's HyperCard in nearly every respect ( platform support, database connectivity, vector graphics support, better color support, faster performance, and a richer plug-in architecture ).

However, Windows-based systems such as Dell's high-end Precision range have become increasingly popular in recent times ; better value for money than Apple's high-end Mac Pro and a more familiar Operating System are both factors that affect the choice of many prospective buyers of photo-editing systems.

In the 2: 2: 2: 4 pulldown scheme, used as a choice primarily by Apple's Final Cut Pro, every fourth frame is repeated.

At the show the developers found that their choice of naming was proving unwise, due to confusion between " PowerTalk " and Apple's new voice recognition system, PlainTalk.

At the time, Pascal was Apple's language of choice for Mac programming.

Wired was in a tricky position, as the error message appeared to be related to the Adobe development suite they were using to put together the digital edition, and because individual issues are purchased through Apple's App Store, Wired was unable to issue refunds directly to affected customers.

The change makes it so that all music ( past and present ) purchased through the RealPlayer Music Store will not work on Apple's iPod.

Functionally, the purpose of QTFairUse is to convert protected audio files (. m4p extension ) purchased from Apple's iTunes Store into M4a files, without DRM.

Although this is Apple's preferred delivery method for Mac OS X, previously purchased licenses can not be transferred to the Mac App Store for downloading or automatic updating.

In 2008, an iPhone app called Pull My Finger was one of the most popular apps in Apple's App Store, purchased over 50, 000 times in less than one week.

A common use of JHymn is to remove FairPlay digital rights management ( DRM ) restrictions from files purchased at Apple's iTunes Store.

Apple's Andy Hertzfeld mentioned the game in a description of the Macintosh team's reaction to the 1981 IBM PC purchased for them by Steve Jobs " to dissect and evaluate ," noting that the new computer shipped with " some games written in BASIC that were especially embarrassing :"

Books purchased on iTunes have a. m4b extension ( a variation on MP4 ), and contain AAC audio covered by Apple's FairPlay Digital Rights Management.