Aalto's ' High Stool ' and ' Stool E60 ' ( manufactured by Artek are currently used in Apple stores across the world to serve as seating for customers.

AppleTalk was released for the original Macintosh in 1985, and was the primary protocol used by Apple devices through the 1980s and 90s.

* AIFF – standard audio file format used by Apple.

* m4a – An audio-only MPEG-4 file, used by Apple for unprotected music downloaded from their iTunes Music Store.

There were several GUI-based BBSes on the Apple Macintosh platform, including TeleFinder and FirstClass, but these remained widely used only in the Mac market.

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

The 1983 Apple FileWare minifloppy drives used double-sided media, higher track pitch, and variable motor speed to achieve a storage capacity of 871 kB, or 435 kB per side.

This eventually leads to the practice of indexing, which is used by almost every operating system from Windows to the system that operates Apple iPod devices.

It was remade as Pocketful of Miracles in 1961, with Bette Davis in the Apple Annie role ( fused with the old woman from Runyon's short story " The Brain Goes Home "); Frank Sinatra recorded the upbeat title song ( his rendition is not used in the film ).

Even after he acquired an Apple Macintosh computer, he used it only for email and for browsing the World Wide Web.

Other uses of Forth include the Open Firmware boot ROMs used by Apple, IBM, Sun, and OLPC XO-1 ; and the FICL-based first stage boot controller of the FreeBSD operating system.

* PowerPC G4, a type of microprocessor by Freescale used by Apple

During the 1970s, Holden ran an advertising jingle " Football, Meat Pies, Kangaroos and Holden cars ", based on the " Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pies and Chevrolet " jingle used by Chevrolet in the United States.

Although this market segment is now much reduced, the technologies developed in this area continue to be influential on the Internet and in both Linux and Apple Mac OS X networking — and the TCP / IP protocol has now almost completely replaced IPX, AppleTalk, NBF, and other protocols used by the early PC LANs.

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.

: French coder who is Daniel's neighbor and used to work for Apple.

Microcomputers such as the Apple II and IBM PC used ROM chips, mounted in sockets on the motherboard.

The Apple IIGS used a digital sound chip designed for the Ensoniq Mirage synthesizer, and later models used a custom sound system and upgraded processors, which drove other companies to improve their own offerings.

These typically used the 8-pin mini-DIN connector that was used by Apple for serial and printer ports prior to the introduction of the Blue & White G3 models.

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.

The final Lisa and Macintosh operating systems used concepts from the Xerox Alto, but many elements of the graphical user interface were created by Apple including the menubar, pop-up menus and the concepts of drag and drop and direct manipulation.

The 68000 became the dominant CPU for Unix based workstations including Sun workstations and Apollo / Domain workstations, found its way into heralded computers such as the Apple Lisa and Macintosh, Amiga, Atari ST, and was used in the first generation of desktop laser printers including the original Apple Inc. LaserWriter and the HP LaserJet.

Darwin currently includes support for the 64-bit variant of the Intel x86 processors used in the Mac as well as the 32-bit ARM processors used in the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and the second and third generation Apple TV.

Companies that are current or former ARM licensees include Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Alcatel-Lucent, Apple Inc., AppliedMicro, Atmel, Broadcom, Cirrus Logic, CSR_plc, Digital Equipment Corporation, Ember, Energy Micro, Freescale, Intel ( through DEC ), LG, Marvell Technology Group, Microsemi, Microsoft, NEC, Nintendo, Nuvoton, Nvidia, Sony, NXP ( formerly Philips Semiconductor ), Oki, ON Semiconductor, Psion, Qualcomm, Renesas, Research In Motion, Samsung, Sharp, Silicon Labs, ST-Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Symbios Logic, Texas Instruments, VLSI Technology, Yamaha, Fuzhou Rockchip, and ZiiLABS.

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

Apple did not develop the iPod software entirely in-house, instead using PortalPlayer's reference platform based on two ARM cores.

* The Apple A6, a System-on-a-chip ARM processor

Promoting members ( 2008-01-17 ) are AMD, Apple, ARM, Creative, Dell Inc, Ericsson, Freescale, Imagination Technologies Group plc, Intel, IBM, Motorola, Nokia, Nvidia Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, SK Telecom, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc, Sun Microsystems Inc and Texas Instruments.

" Apple dropped their interest in the Hobbit and moved on to help form Advanced RISC Machines, ARM, with a $ 2. 5 million investment.

In a strange twist of fate, while Apple dropped the chip in favor of ARM, the Active Book Company ( founded by Hermann Hauser, who also founded Acorn ) dropped the ARM in its PDA to use Hobbit.

Beginning in 2007, ports became available for a large number of additional ARM based targets, including players from Sandisk, Toshiba, Olympus and Phillips in addition to newer Apple and iRiver players based on a variety of ARM7, ARM9 and ARM11 series processors.

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.

ARM Ltd was formed in 1990 as a semiconductor intellectual property licensor, backed by Acorn, Apple and VLSI.

In 1990, VLSI Technology, along with Acorn Computers and Apple Computer were the founding investing partners in ARM Ltd.

Apple developer documents indicate that the emulator provided an operating environment most closely resembling that of the Macintosh Centris 610, a system based on the Motorola 68LC040 microprocessor.

This case was later used again in the Quadra 610 and Power Macintosh 6100 lines of computers, and when these later computers were introduced, Apple offered consumers a product upgrade path by letting them buy a new motherboard.

The first three Apple Workgroup Server models, the WGS 60, the WGS 80 and the WGS 95 ( mostly called " AWS 95 " for " Apple Workgroup Server ") were based on the Centris 610, the Quadra 800 and the Quadra 950, respectively.

The Nova influenced the design of both the Xerox Alto ( 1973 ) and Apple I ( 1976 ) computers, and its architecture was the basis for the Computervision CGP ( Computervision Graphics Processor ) series.

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.

Following an announcement on December 20, 1996, on February 4, 1997, Apple Computer acquired NeXT for $ 429 million, and used the OPENSTEP for Mach operating system as the basis for OS X.

HFS drew heavily upon Apple's first hierarchical SOS operating system for the failed Apple III, which also served as the basis for hierarchical filing systems on the Apple IIe and Apple Lisa.

Following an announcement on December 20, 1996, on February 4, 1997, Apple Computer acquired NeXT for $ 427 million, and used OPENSTEP as the basis for OS X. Traces of the NeXT software heritage can still be seen in OS X.

* In 2005, the Federal Court of Appeal overruled a 2003 Copyright Board decision which had applied the blank media levy to MP3 players such as Apple Inc .' s iPod, on the basis that such devices did not qualify as " audio recording medium " as per the Copyright Act definition.

Apple eventually used many of the ideas in the Alto and their implementations as the basis for their Macintosh desktop.

In July 2010, federal regulators clarified the issue when they determined it was lawful to hack ( or in other terms, " jail break ") the iPhone, declaring that there was no basis for copyright law to assist Apple in protecting its restrictive business model.

Wigginton had left Apple in 1981, but was still involved with many members of the Mac team and was coaxed into leading MacWrite development on a semi-official basis.

In addition, Breakout was the basis and inspiration for books, video games, film, and the Apple II personal computer.

Apple completely phased out the G4 series for desktop models after it selected the 64-bit IBM-produced PowerPC 970 processor as the basis for its PowerPC G5 series.

Development officially ended in August 1996, and after a short search they announced that Apple was buying NeXT in order to use their NeXTSTEP operating system as the basis of a new Mac OS.

Apple events form the basis of the Mac OS scripting system, AppleScript.

This IFF was adopted by a number of developers including Apple for AIFF files and Microsoft for RIFF files ( which were used as the basis for the AVI and WAV file format ).

Jobs announced that he would be continuing in his role at Apple on a permanent basis, dropping the " i " ( for " interim ") from his title " iCEO "

Some of the Macquariums built by others on an individual basis, the versions that Ihnatko refers to as " overly complex ", were constructed with parts from two sources located closer to Apple headquarters a 1 Infinite Loop Drive on De Anza Blvd in Cupertino, CA.

In 1988, Colby Systems, which had previously produced their Macintosh-compatible laptops on a trade-in basis, began selling them to Apple dealers who would then fit motherboards from their spare stock.

C & G was the initial distributor of SoundJam MP, a program which was the basis for Apple Computer's iTunes.

However he was quickly contracted by Apple to help work on MacWrite on a semi-formal basis.

The simulation model in the Apple version in turn was ported to the Intellivision in 1982 as the basis for Intellivision World Series Baseball.

Under Bernstein's leadership, Relix served as the basis of Zenbu Media Group, which included productions such as The Jammys, The Green Apple Music and Arts Festival, world music magazine Global Rhythm and heavy metal magazines, Metal Edge and Metal Maniacs.