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Apple Inc. is an American consumer electronics corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California. The company's best-known products include the Macintosh personal computers, the Mac OS X operating system, the iPod line of portable music players, and the iPhone, an advanced multimedia cellular phone using a multi-touch interface.
The Macintosh, or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured and marketed by Apple that run the Macintosh operating system ("Mac OS"). Named after the McIntosh apple, the original Macintosh was released on January 24, 1984. It was the first popular personal computer to use a graphical user interface (“GUI”) and mouse instead of the then-standard command line interface. Current Macintosh systems include the "budget" Mac mini desktop, the all-in-one iMac, the professional Mac Pro, the MacBook line of laptops, and the Xserve server.
The iMac is a range of all-in-one Macintosh desktop computers designed and built by Apple Inc. It has been a large part of Apple's consumer desktop offerings since its introduction in 1998, and has evolved through four distinct forms. In its original form, the iMac G3, the iMac was gum drop- or egg-shaped with a CRT monitor, mainly enclosed by colored, translucent plastic. The second major revision, the iMac G4, moved to a design of a hemispherical base containing all the main components and an LCD monitor on a freely moving arm attached to the top of the base. The iMac G5 and the Intel iMac placed all the components immediately behind the display, creating a slim design that tilts only up and down on a simple metal base. The current iMac shares the same form as the previous models, but is now thinner and uses anodized aluminum and black-bordered glass for its case.
Infinite Loop is a street encircling the buildings of Apple Computer's headquarters in Cupertino, California. Each building has a number which is also its single-digit address on the Loop, and so Apple's official mailing address is "1 Infinite Loop". The loop connects to Mariani Avenue, which was the former street address of Apple HQ; early printed material contains the address "20525 Mariani Avenue".
Infinite Loop is at the southeast corner of De Anza Boulevard and Interstate 280. The main office, 1 Infinite Loop, directly faces De Anza Boulevard.
The name was inspired by the programming concept of the infinite loop. When Apple purchased a Cray X-MP in the 1980s, there was a saying: "A Cray is so fast it can execute an infinite loop in under 2 seconds!"
- January 5, 2008
- Mac Book Air released
- October 26, 2007
- Apple releases Leopard, the sixth major version of Mac OS X.
- August 8, 2007
- New iMacs (4th generation) released; 24inch (2.8/2.4GHz) and 20inch (2.4/2.0GHz)
- June 29, 2007
- Apple Stores and AT&T Stores begin sales of Apple's iPhone
- June 5, 2007
- New MacBook Pros introduced (802.11n) / LED backlight / Intel Santa Rosa Platform
- May 15, 2007
- New MacBook introduced (faster Core 2 Duo)
- April 14, 2007
- Final Cut Studio 2 (Final Cut 6) introduced
- April 9, 2007
- 100 million iPods have been sold
- April 4, 2007
- 8-core Mac Pro released
- brighter Cinema HD displays
- January 30, 2007
- Colors added to iPod shuffle
- January 12, 2007
- Cisco Sues Apple for iPhone Trademark
- January 9, 2007
- Apple introduces iPhone and Apple TV
- December 5, 2006
- Apple launches iTunes in New Zealand
Philip W. Schiller (born 1960) is the senior vice president of worldwide product marketing at Apple Inc.[1] He is a prominent figure in Apple's public presentations. He reports to Apple CEO Steve Jobs and has been a member of the company's executive leadership team since Jobs's return to Apple in 1997.
WikiProject Macintosh organizes the development of articles relating to the Apple Macintosh and Apple Computer and the Macintosh collaboration goes and writes the articles to those standards. The collaboration focuses on one article at a time until they can proudly put that article up as a featured article candidate. This will last until they have run through a pool of "featurable" articles, then they will use a time-based system. For those who want to skip ahead to the smaller articles, the WikiProject also maintains a broader list of articles that need improvement.
