Apple Inc.
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Kansas City Star | November 17, 2009
Underdog Palm takes on giants in smartphones
...largely on the same languages used to design Web sites. Android, by contrast, is based on Sun's Java language, and Apple uses a variation of the C computer programming language. He discounts Android's chances because, he says, it does...
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BetaNews.Com | November 04, 2009
Apple's App Store hits 100K apps: News or rhetoric?
...think it's useless. The Apple HW platform is part of the magic. Google is hoping to displace Apple with Android, but Android has to run on different processors and HW. Android developers therefore have to program in the comparatively...
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Computer World | September 03, 2009
Apple patches critical Java bugs, but leaves Leopard users vulnerable
...not unusual. When Apple refreshed Java in September 2008, for example, it fixed more than two-dozen vulnerabilities, some of which had been patched in updates for Java for Windows, Linux and Solaris as far back as March 2008. Apple has come...
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AppleInsider | 4 days ago
Inside Google's Android and Apple's iPhone OS as software markets
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Google outlines Chrome OS plans for netbooks
...alternatives to the conventional desktop PC. Apple's iMac was birthed from an effort within the company to create an NC, and it became one of the few non-Windows PCs to ever gain traction. Other attempts include 3Com's QNX-based Audrey, a...
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Inside Google's Android and Apple's iPhone OS as core platforms
...win for either camp. Both offer somewhat similar tools in terms of capability, with Google's being more familiar to open source or Java developers and Apple's being nearly identical to its desktop Mac platform tools. Apple has a minor lead...
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Description from Wikipedia:
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and manufactures consumer electronics and computer software products. The company's best-known hardware products include Macintosh computers, the iPod and the iPhone. Apple software includes the Mac OS X operating system, the iTunes media browser, the iLife suite of multimedia and creativity software, the iWork suite of productivity software, Final Cut Studio, a suite of professional audio and film-industry software products, and Logic Studio, a suite of audio tools. The company operates more than 250 retail stores in nine countries and an online store where hardware and software products are sold.
Established in Cupertino, California on April 1, 1976 and incorporated January 3, 1977, the company was called Apple Computer, Inc. for its first 30 years, but dropped the word "Computer" on January 9, 2007 to reflect the company's ongoing expansion into the consumer electronics market in addition to its traditional focus on personal computers. Apple has about 35,000 employees worldwide and had worldwide annual sales of US$32.48 billion in its fiscal year ending September 29, 2008. For reasons as various as its philosophy of comprehensive aesthetic design to its distinctive advertising campaigns, Apple has established a unique reputation in the consumer electronics industry. This includes a customer base that is devoted to the company and its brand, particularly in the United States. Fortune magazine named Apple the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world in 2009.
- Name:
- Apple Inc.
- Type:
- Public
- Location City:
- 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California
- Location Country:
- USA
- Region:
- Worldwide;
- Founder:
- Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne
- Founded:
- Cupertino, California, United States
- Stock Symbol (NASDAQ):
- AAPL
- Industry:
- Computer hardware Computer softwareConsumer electronics Digital distribution
- Services:
- Stores, MobileMe
- CEO:
- Steve Jobs
- Key People:
- Products:
- MaciPhone, iPodMac OS X, iLife, iWork
- Revenue:
- US$32.48 billion
- Operating Income:
- $ 6.28 billion
- Net Income:
- $ 4.83 billion
- Assets:
- $39.57 billion
- Equity:
- $21.03 billion
- No. of Employees:
- 35,000
- Subsidiaries:
- Braeburn Capital, FileMaker Inc.
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