* 1960 – Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc.

Apple's Chief Executive Officer ( CEO ) John Sculley ousted Jobs from his day-to-day role at Apple, replacing him with Jean-Louis Gassée in 1985.

Jobs returned to Apple as a consultant in 1997 and then after the 4th of July weekend the same year became interim CEO.

The term PDA was first used on January 7, 1992 by Apple Computer CEO John Sculley at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, referring to the Apple Newton.

After Mal Evans started work for The Beatles, Aspinall was promoted to become their personal assistant, and eventually ascended to the position of CEO for Apple Corps ( a position he held until 10 April 2007 ).

* Gil Amelio, technology executive and former CEO of Apple Inc.

The original Apple team was expanded with the addition of a very small number of IBM engineers, as well as a new CEO from IBM, Joe Guglielmi ( apparently to the distaste of many of the Apple people ).

* Tim Cook, Apple CEO

Troubles at Apple later prompted the board to invite Amelio to take on the position of CEO, which he accepted in February 1996.

On October 15, 1990, John Sculley ( then Apple CEO ) introduced the Classic at a press conference, announcing that pricing would start at $ 1, 000 and saying, " To reach new customers, we didn't just lower the prices of our existing products.

Ma was also seen with former Apple Inc. and Pixar CEO Steve Jobs.

This estrangement was quickly repaired by successor Iger upon Eisner's exit, and on January 24, 2006, the company announced it would acquire Pixar in an all-stock deal worth US $ 7. 4 billion, catapulting Jobs, also co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc, to Disney's largest shareholder with 7 % of the corporation's outstanding shares.

Sculley was vice-president ( 1970 – 1977 ) and president of PepsiCo ( 1977 – 1983 ), until he became CEO of Apple on April 8, 1983, a position he held until leaving in 1993.

During his January 9, 2007 Macworld Keynote address, Apple CEO Steve Jobs used the band's song " Lovely Rita " to introduce the music-playing capabilities of the company's new iPhone.

Be was founded by former Apple Computer executive Jean-Louis Gassée in 1990 with Steve Sakoman after being ousted by Apple CEO John Sculley.

On April 9, 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the shipment of its 100 millionth iPod, making the Pixo OS one of the most widely used embedded operating systems.

On occasion, there have been a few celebrity guest appearances in the strip, such as The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson and Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

On March 7, 2012, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced a new, iOS-native version of iPhoto alongside the third-generation iPad.

In July, Apple ’ s CEO Gil Amelio was ousted by Apple ’ s Board of Directors, and Steve Jobs soon returned as interim CEO.

* Apple CEO Gil Amelio's first interview after being fired by Apple

* In 1997, Apple Inc. ( at the time known as Apple Computer inc .) and Steve Jobs ousted Gil Amelio in a boardroom coup, after which Jobs became interim CEO of Apple Computer, moving on to become full-time CEO shortly after.

In 1996, Amelio accepted invitation from Apple Computer, a customer of National Semiconductor, to join its board of directors.

: Still, unless Apple can rapidly expand its cloning operations -- a goal of new Apple CEO Gilbert Amelio -- to boost flagging Mac market share and generate enough new licensing and software revenue to offset sales lost to cloners, Apple could see its belated cloning campaign backfire.

Amelio worked at Bell Labs, Fairchild Semiconductor, and the semiconductor division of Rockwell International but is best remembered as a former CEO of National Semiconductor and Apple.

In 1994 Amelio joined the Board of Directors of Apple.

After his resignation from National Semiconductor Amelio became Apple CEO on February 2, 1996, succeeding Michael Spindler.

Amelio cited several problems at Apple including a shortage of cash and liquidity, low-quality products, lack of a viable operating system strategy, undisciplined corporate culture, and fragmentation in trying to do too much and in too many directions.

To replace Copland and fulfill the need for a next generation operating system Amelio started negotiations to buy BeOS from Be Inc. but negotiations stalled when Be CEO Jean-Louis Gassée demanded $ 275 million ; Apple was unwilling to offer more than $ 200 million.

In 1997 Amelio said in an interview with technology journalist Gina Smith, who asked him how Apple was doing:

Apple started the Taligent project in 1989, with the goal of building a NeXT-like operating system for the Macintosh, with collaboration from both HP and IBM.

However, Borland later decided it wanted more elaborate object-oriented features, and started over in Delphi using the Object Pascal draft standard proposed by Apple as a basis.

When Steve Jobs left Apple and started NeXT, he pitched Adobe on the idea of using PS as the display system for his new workstation computers.

The origins of Unicode date back to 1987, when Joe Becker from Xerox and Lee Collins and Mark Davis from Apple started investigating the practicalities of creating a universal character set.

Improving technology allowed the production of cheaper bitmapped displays, and WYSIWYG software started to appear for more popular computers, including LisaWrite for the Apple Lisa, released in 1983, and MacWrite for the Apple Macintosh, released in 1984.

During the feast, Eris produced the Apple of Discord, which started the quarrel that led to the Judgement of Paris and eventually to the Trojan War.

Following the demise of the various incarnations of NeXT ( started by Steve Jobs in the late 1980s and merged with Apple Computer in 1997 ), the Trillium software was published under the GNU General Public License, with work continuing as gnuspeech.

Some well-known logos include Apple Inc .' s apple with a bite taken out, which started out as a rainbow of color, and has been reduced to a single color without any loss of recognition.

Jobs was aware of Warnock's efforts, and on his return to California he started working on convincing Warnock to allow Apple to license PostScript for a new printer that Apple would sell.

* The Graphing Calculator Story A story of how Pacific Tech ’ s Graphing Calculator started out as a " skunkworks " project in Apple Computer

In the late 1980s Apple Computer and VLSI Technology started working with Acorn on newer versions of the ARM core.

IBM started the POWER2 processor effort as a successor to the POWER1 two years before the creation of the 1991 Apple / IBM / Motorola alliance in Austin, Texas.

In early 2007, Apple Inc., through its iTunes service, started selling 15 previously-unavailable episodes of The Electric Company.

Initially started as a project within Apple inc to provide a replacement for the Mac OS, it was later spun off into a joint venture with IBM, for the purpose of building a competing platform to Microsoft Cairo and NeXTSTEP, as part of the AIM alliance.

At the time of its original release, Frontier was the only system-level scripting environment for the Macintosh, but Apple was working on its own own scripting language, AppleScript, and started bundling it with the MacOS 7 system software.

The PowerPC program was the one success that came out of the AIM alliance ; Apple started using PowerPC chips in their Macintosh line starting in 1994.

In the 1980s Steve Wozniak of Apple started a company named CL 9.

* Jackie Lomax, musician, first artist signed to Apple Records, a label started by The Beatles

For the press release to promote the " Get Back " single, McCartney wrote, " We were sitting in the studio and we made it up out of thin air ... we started to write words there and then ... when we finished it, we recorded it at Apple Studios and made it into a song to roller-coast by.

It was not until the 1962 – 1966 / 1967 – 1970 reissues, BBC sessions and The Beatles Anthology series that Apple labels started appearing on the CDs.