Apple Inc.

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Apple is a company that makes computers, software, and music players. Their computers are named Macintosh, they make lots of kinds of software, and their music players are called "iPod". All Macintosh computers run on Apple's operating system called Mac OS X. It is different to Windows which Microsoft makes. The basic using is the same but it is still different in the way of look, working and how it is made. The current version is called "Tiger"

[edit] 1970s

Apple was formed in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Before they made the company they sold "blue boxes", which had telephone buttons on them. People could use them to make telephone calls from pay phones without paying any money. The company's first product is now called the Apple I computer. They were almost ready to sell it, but a problem happened. Steve Wozniak was working for the computer company Hewlett-Packard, and the papers that said he could work there said he had to give everything he invented to the company before he could do what he wanted to do with it. He showed the first Apple I to the boss at Hewlett-Packard, but they did not want his computer. Wozniak was free to do what he wanted to do with the Apple I. It was sold in 1976. In 1977 they made their second computer, called the Apple II.

[edit] Today

Today, Apple is a very big company. It makes different kinds of computers, software and lots of other electronic stuff. The most popular product is the iPod. It is a very simple to use music player. You can take it with you and can listen to music, view photos and watch videos.

The different kinds of computers they make are:

Laptops:

  • MacBook (basic laptop, mainly for home and school use)
  • MacBook Pro (a better laptop for professional people)

"Normal computers"

  • Mac Mini (a very tiny, but fully functional computer that doesn't come with its own monitor, mainly for home and school)
  • iMac (a computer where the computer part is built-in behind the screen, mainly for home and school)
  • Mac Pro (a computer that doesn't come with its own monitor, very fast and for professional people)

Apple also makes software for their computers:

  • iLife (a set of programs for making moving pictures (iMovie), making music (GarageBand), keeping track of photos (iPhoto), keeping track of (and buying) music (iTunes), creating web pages (iWeb), and DVD-making (iDVD). These programs are very simple to use.
  • iWork (a set of programs for office stuff. Pages is for making documents and Keynote is for making slideshows).
  • Final Cut Studio (a set of programs for professional moving pictures. It has a program for video making (Final Cut Pro), music-making (Soundtrack), broadcast-quality compositing and motion graphics authorship (Motion) and one for making DVDs (DVD Studio Pro).
  • Aperture (for professional photographers to keep track their photos)

Most computer users in the world use Microsoft Windows, the rival to Mac OS X. About 5% of computer users use Apple's Macintosh computers. It is not possible to run Apple's Mac OS X on a Windows computer. However, it is possible to run Windows on modern Macintosh computers. Even though Apple makes their computers to run OS X, they also make software that allows you to install Windows.

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