It seems likely that memory constraints were at the root of these differences, as the Apple II ROM had only 10 kilobytes available for the interpreter, and the improved hi-res graphics support was clearly a higher priority.

Apple had considered the problem, and AppleTalk included the possibility for a low-cost LocalTalk-to-Ethernet bridge, but they felt it would be a low-volume product and left it to 3rd parties.

By this point Apple had a wide variety of communications products under development, and many of these were announced along with AppleTalk Phase II.

In 1988 Apple had released MacTCP, a system that allowed the Mac to support TCP / IP on machines with suitable Ethernet hardware.

When the Apple II, PET 2001 and TRS-80 were all released in 1977, all three had BASIC as their primary programming language and operating environment.

The Apple II and TRS-80 each had two versions of BASIC, a smaller introductory version introduced with the initial releases of the machines and a more advanced version developed as interest in the platforms increased.

Tucker had earlier used " Big Apple " as a reference to a different city, Los Angeles.

By the late 1980s, the personal computer market had become dominated by the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh platforms.

By this point, both the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh had a much larger market share than the Amiga platform.

The two price wars resulting from Compaq's actions ultimately drove numerous competitors from the market, such as Packard Bell, and by 1994 Compaq had overtaken Apple Computer and even surpassed I. B. M.

By the mid-1990s, Compaq's price war had enabled it to overtake IBM and Apple, while other IBM PC Compatible manufacturers such as Packard Bell and AST were driven from the market.

However, in an in-person interview held at the Apple Store Soho on August 16, 2012, Cronenberg commented that the financing for the " Eastern Promises " sequel had fallen through about two weeks earlier.

Some years later it was learned that they had licensed it to Apple for something like $ 40, 000.

Microsoft had worked with Apple Computer to develop Desk Accessories and other minor pieces of software that were included with early Macintosh system software.

As part of the related business negotiations, Microsoft had licensed certain aspects of the Macintosh user interface from Apple ; in later litigation, a district court summarized these aspects as " screen displays ".

The Amstrad PCW's bundled word processing software, LocoScript, used the term " in limbo " to refer to files which had been deleted but which could still be restored, a concept similar to that later implemented by the Trash in the Apple Macintosh and the Recycle Bin in Microsoft Windows 95.

The time period is 1993 – 1995, at a time when Microsoft has reached dominance in the software industry and emerged victorious from the " Look & Feel " lawsuit by Apple Inc., a company that had at times seemed in danger of falling apart.

The most popular computers such as the Apple II and IBM PC had published schematic diagrams and other documentation which permitted rapid reverse-engineering and third-party replacement motherboards.

The original Macintosh system software was partially based on the Lisa OS, previously released by Apple for the Lisa computer in 1983 and, as part of an agreement allowing Xerox to buy shares in Apple at a favorable rate, it also used concepts from the Xerox PARC Xerox Alto, which Steve Jobs and several other Macintosh team members had previewed.

Many different jobs and a number of Apple engineers visited Xerox PARC in December 1979, three months after the Lisa and Macintosh projects had begun.

Apple was so successful in its marketing for the Macintosh, that it quickly outshone its more sophisticated predecessor, the Lisa, in sales — so much so that Apple quickly developed a product called MacWorks which allowed the Lisa to emulate Macintosh system software through System 3, by which time it had been discontinued as the re-branded Macintosh XL.

It saw use in some late-model Amiga machines and Amiga accelerator cards as well as some Atari ST clones and a Falcon accelerator board ( CT060 ), and very late models of the Alpha Microsystems multiuser computers before their migration to x86, but Apple Inc. and the Unix world had moved onto various RISC platforms by the time the ' 060 was available.

The Macintosh had been successful on university campuses in considerable part because of the Apple University Consortium, which allowed students and institutions to buy the computers at a discount.

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.

It cited the presence of some of the same embedded strings, such as the name " James Huston " ( an Apple programmer ), and " Applesoft ," on both the Apple and Franklin system disks.

Capra's first choices for Apple Annie and Henry D. Blake, Marie Dressler and W. C. Fields, could not be cast for the same reason.

For this reason, almost no workstations are built by the customer themselves but rather purchased from a vendor such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun Microsystems, SGI, Apple, or Dell.

Jonathan Ive, Apple ’ s senior vice president of industrial design, also said that Apple had found a good reason not to do focus groups: " They just ensure that you don ’ t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products.

The computer's audio capabilities were given as the primary reason for record label Apple Corps's 1989 resumption of legal action against Apple that had been previously suspended.

For some reason, Apple never made this a priority until OS X, even though several schemes were suggested by outside developers that would retain compatibility while solving the overall memory management problem.

This was primarily intended for the Apple IIe Card ( the primary reason for the Color Classic's switchable 560x384 display, essentially quadruple the IIe's 280x192 High-Resolution graphics ), which was offered with education models of the LCs.

Some of the reason for this can be traced to problems that would become widespread at Apple as time went on ; as " pink " became delayed, engineers on the project jumped ship to work on " blue " instead.

On 9 January 2008, however, Apple conceded that this was unfair practice and promised to harmonise prices with Europe within six months, citing record labels ' wholesale music prices as the reason.

Al-Manar TV subsequently blamed " Israeli incitement against Al-Manar TV " as the reason Al-Manar mobile apps were removed by Apple and Google.

The rapid rise of the media player in phones was quoted by Apple as a primary reason for developing the iPhone.

This is one reason why major computer and software firms such as Apple Computer and Microsoft consider the educational market important: The often time-limited computer education provided in schools most often lends itself to rote memorization, creating a sort of vendor lock-in effect whereby graduates are afraid to switch to competing computer systems.

The reason for Rosetta ’ s reduced compatibility compared to Apple ’ s earlier 68k emulator for PPCs lies within its implementation: Rosetta is a user-level program and can only intercept and emulate user-level code, while the older emulator was integrated with the system at a much lower level.

On 23 August, press reports appeared citing " legal problems " as the reason behind the delaying of the much-anticipated live album − problems that would turn out to be a disagreement between Capitol Records ( Harrison's Apple distributor ) and Columbia Records ( Bob Dylan's label ) over who had a rightful claim to release the album.

However, for many of these so-called 68K transition Macs, Apple offered an upgrade path in the form of a PowerPC Macintosh Processor Upgrade Card and aggressively marketed it to assure a wary consumer of their investment.

The PowerBook 500 series was released as Apple was already moving its desktop machines to the PowerPC processor range, and a future upgrade was promised from the start.

Support for the 30-inch Apple Cinema display was also introduced in the new 17-inch model and was optional in the 15-inch model via a build-to-order upgrade to the computer's video hardware.

One typical difference between package management in proprietary operating systems, such as Mac OS X and Windows, and those in free and open source software, such as Linux, is that free and open source software systems permit third-party packages to also be installed and upgraded through the same mechanism, whereas the package management systems of Mac OS X and Windows will only upgrade software provided by Apple and Microsoft, respectively ( with the exception of some third party drivers in Windows ).

The replacement ID badges for the front lid, used in the Apple IIe to IIGS upgrade.

When the Apple IIGS computer was introduced by Apple Computer in September 1986, Apple also announced it would be making an upgrade kit for the IIe available for purchase.

Essentially the " upgrade " replaced the Apple IIe motherboard for a 16-bit Apple II motherboard, making it more of an outright computer transplant than upgrade.

The upgrade cost US $ 500, plus the trade-in of the user's existing Apple IIe motherboard and baseplate ( and in some cases, the upper half of the IIe case itself for very early Apple IIe units which couldn't accommodate the new baseplate ).

It did make an attractive upgrade for Apple IIe users wanting to use the machine strictly in IIe-emulation mode ( ignoring the native part of the machine ), which provided faster CPU operation, 256 KB RAM, a clock and many built-in peripherals via the back ports.

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 replacement ID badges for the front lid, used in the Apple IIe to IIGS upgrade.

Upon its release in September 1986, Apple announced it would be making a kit that would upgrade an Apple IIe to an IIGS available for purchase.

The upgrade replaced the Apple IIe motherboard with a 16-bit Apple IIGS motherboard.

The upgrade cost US $ 500, plus the trade-in of the user's existing Apple IIe motherboard.

It did, however, make an attractive upgrade for Apple IIe users wanting to use the machine strictly in IIe-emulation mode ( ignoring the native part of the machine ), which provided faster CPU operation, 256 KB RAM, a clock, and many built-in peripherals via the back ports.

Apple resolved the issue by offering a free chip swap upgrade to affected owners.

In August 1987, Apple released an updated ROM that was included in all new machines and was made available as a free upgrade to all existing owners.