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The widely popular Music Store known as iTunes was a struggle to get started. Around when Apple Computer First Started, it was sued for its name by Apple Corps, the British music producer created by the Beatles. Both companies kept their names, but Apple Corps had to stick to music, and Apple Computer could not distribute music. In 2003, Apple Computer decided to break that rule, and introduced the iPod and iTunes. Apple Corp sued again but lost. After time the relationship between the Apples healed, and in 2010 iTunes introduced its selection of Beatles songs.

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After Jobs was fired from Apple in 1985, he started up a new computer company named Next, and purchased, and funded a large part of a small animation studio called Pixar, which was previously owned by Lucasfilm. Amazing things came from Pixar, such as Toy Story, the first fully animated movie to hit theaters. Many other classic movies came from Pixar such as; Up, Monsters Inc., Cars, The Incredibles, Inside-out, Ratatouille, Finding Nemo,  and WALL-E. After being bought by Disney in 2007, Jobs and Bob Iger, Disney CEO, grew to become close friends.

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Introduced by Jobs at a press conference in 2010, the 1st generation Apple iPad was the fastest selling mobile device of all time. It was a revolutionary product, made for easy productivity, like how the Macintosh was made for easy use, and maximum productivity. Jobs attended the launch of the iPad 2, seven moths before he passed away, and after he took a medical leave of absence. This man was dedicated to his company's products.

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BREAKING NEWS: STEVE JOBS HOSPITALIZED WITH PANCREATIC CANCER.

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BREAKING NEWS: STEVE JOBS HOSPITALIZED WITH PANCREATIC CANCER.

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The world famous inventor, visionary, Pixar Chairman, and Apple CEO, Steve Jobs has been recently diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer and has been hospitalized. Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal cancers, and 37,000 people on average die every year. His frail appearance at a recent conference was shocking to many people. Now knowing what is wrong clears things up. No one know how long he has had the tumor and no one knows how long he will live, or If he will survive through it. The world is shocked, and we'll just have to wait and see the outcome. Best of luck to Jobs and our thoughts are with him.

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The iPhone was definitely one of Apple's biggest achievements. Basically defining all smartphones we know and love today, this was one of Apple's biggest statements in the computer industry.

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What Jobs had to say about the Macintosh entering the Market.

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Apple Macintosh

The Macintosh, or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers, manufactured by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced on January 24, 1984, by Steve Jobs (see the lower photo) and it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature two old known then, but still unpopular features-the mouse and the graphical user interface, rather than the command-line interface of its predecessors.

Steve Jobs demonstrating Mac 128 (© AP, Paul Sakuma)

Production of the Mac is based on a vertical integration model in that Apple facilitates all aspects of its hardware and creates its own operating system (called System Software, later renamed to Mac OS, see the lower image) that is pre-installed on all Mac computers. This is in contrast to most IBM PC compatibles, where multiple sellers create hardware intended to run another company's operating software. Apple exclusively produces Mac hardware, choosing internal systems, designs, and prices. Apple also develops the operating system for the Mac, currently Mac OS X version 10.6 "Snow Leopard". The modern Mac, like other personal computers, is capable of running alternative operating systems such as Linux, FreeBSD, and, in the case of Intel-based Macs, Microsoft Windows. However, Apple does not license Mac OS X for use on non-Apple computers.

Apple Macintosh GUI

The Macintosh project started in the late 1970s with Jef Raskin (1943-2005) (see the nearby image), an Apple employee, who envisioned an easy-to-use, low-cost computer for the average consumer. He wanted to name the computer after his favorite type of apple, the McIntosh, but the name had to be changed for legal reasons. In September 1979, Raskin was authorized by the management to start hiring for the project, and he began to look for an engineer who could put together a prototype. Bill Atkinson, a member of Apple's Lisa team (which was developing a similar but higher-end computer), introduced him to Burrell Smith, a service technician who had been hired earlier that year. Over the years, Raskin assembled a large development team that designed and built the original Macintosh hardware and software; besides Raskin, Atkinson and Smith, the team included Chris Espinosa, Joanna Hoffman, George Crow, Bruce Horn, Jerry Manock, Susan Kare, Andy Hertzfeld, and Daniel Kottke.

The first Macintosh board, designed by Burrell Smith, had 64 kilobytes (KB) of RAM, used the Motorola 6809E microprocessor, and was capable of supporting a 256×256 pixel black-and-white bitmap display. Bud Tribble, a Macintosh programmer, was interested in running the Lisa's graphical programs on the Macintosh, and asked Smith whether he could incorporate the Lisa's Motorola 68000 microprocessor into the Mac while still keeping the production cost down. By December 1980, Smith had succeeded in designing a board that not only used the 68000, but bumped its speed from 5 to 8 megahertz (MHz); this board also had the capacity to support a 384×256 pixel display.

Smith's design used fewer RAM chips than the Lisa, which made production of the board significantly more cost-efficient. The final Mac design was self-contained and had the complete QuickDraw picture language and interpreter in 64 Kb of ROM and 128 KB of RAM. Though there were no memory slots, its RAM was expandable to 512 KB by means of soldering sixteen chip sockets to accept 256 Kb RAM chips in place of the factory-installed chips. The final product's screen was a 9-inch, 512x342 pixel monochrome display, exceeding the prototypes.

The design caught the attention of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple. Realizing that the Macintosh was more marketable than the Lisa, he began to focus his attention on the project. Raskin finally left the Macintosh project in 1981 over a personality conflict with Jobs, and the final Macintosh design is said to be closer to Jobs' ideas than Raskin's. After hearing of the pioneering GUI technology being developed at Xerox PARC, Jobs had negotiated a visit to see the Xerox Alto computer and Smalltalk development tools in exchange for Apple stock options. The Lisa and Macintosh user interfaces were partially influenced by technology seen at Xerox PARC and were combined with the Macintosh group's own ideas.

The Macintosh 128k (see the lower image) was announced to the press in October 1983 and was introduced in January 1984. It came bundled with two applications designed to show off its interface: MacWrite and MacPaint. Although the Mac garnered an immediate, enthusiastic following, some labeled it a mere "toy." Because the machine was entirely designed around the GUI, existing text-mode and command-driven applications had to be redesigned and the programming code rewritten; this was a time consuming task that many software developers chose not to undertake, and resulted in an initial lack of software for the new system. In April 1984 Microsoft's MultiPlan migrated over from MS-DOS, followed by Microsoft Word in January 1985. In 1985, Lotus Software introduced Lotus Jazz after the success of Lotus 1-2-3 for the IBM PC, although it was largely a flop. Apple introduced Macintosh Office the same year with the lemmings ad.

Apple Macintosh

For a special post-election edition of Newsweek in November 1984, Apple spent more than $2.5 million to buy all 39 of the advertising pages in the issue. Apple also ran a "Test Drive a Macintosh" promotion, in which potential buyers with a credit card could take home a Macintosh for 24 hours and return it to a dealer afterwards. While 200000 people participated, dealers disliked the promotion, the supply of computers was insufficient for demand, and many were returned in such a bad shape that they could no longer be sold. This marketing campaign caused CEO John Sculley to raise the price from $1995 to $2495.

In 1985, the combination of the Mac, Apple's LaserWriter printer, and Mac-specific software like Boston Software's MacPublisher and Aldus PageMaker enabled users to design, preview, and print page layouts complete with text and graphics, it was an activity to become known as desktop publishing. Initially, desktop publishing was unique to the Macintosh, but eventually became available for IBM PC users as well. Later, applications such as Macromedia FreeHand, QuarkXPress, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator strengthened the Mac's position as a graphics computer and helped to expand the emerging desktop publishing market.

The limitations of the first Mac soon became clear: it had very little memory, even compared with other personal computers in 1984, and could not be expanded easily; and it lacked a hard disk drive or the means to attach one easily. In October 1985, Apple increased the Mac's memory to 512 KB, but it was inconvenient and difficult to expand the memory of a 128 KB Mac. In an attempt to improve connectivity, Apple released the Macintosh Plus on January 10, 1986 for $2600. It offered one megabyte of RAM, expandable to four, and a then-revolutionary SCSI parallel interface, allowing up to seven peripherals-such as hard drives and scanners-to be attached to the machine. Its floppy drive was increased to an 800 KB capacity. The Mac Plus was an immediate success and remained in production, unchanged, until October 15, 1990; on sale for just over four years and ten months, it was the longest-lived Macintosh in Apple's history.

At its introduction, the Macintosh was targeted for two primary markets: knowledge-workers and students. Referring to the telephone as the first desktop appliance, Steve Jobs hoped that the Macintosh would become the second desktop appliance. As Bill Gates stated, To create a new standard takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new, and captures people's imaginations. Macintosh meets that standard.

Through the second half of the 1980s, the company built market share only to see it dissipate in the 1990s as the personal computer market shifted towards IBM PC compatible machines running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows.

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History of Computers and Computing, Birth of the modern computer, Personal computer, Apple Macintosh

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The Macintosh, or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers, manufactured by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced on January 24, 1984, by Steve Jobs (see the lower photo) and it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature two old known then, but still unpopular features-the mouse and the graphical user interface, rather than the command-line interface of its predecessors.

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After the success of the Apple II, and the somewhat flop of the Apple III, Apple Computers started to work on their next projects. There was the LISA Project, which stood for Local Integrated Software Architecture, but was really named after Jobs' daughter. Then there was the side project that jobs worked on after he was booted from the LISA team, the Macintosh. Jobs envisioned the Macintosh as an inexpensive computer, compared to others during that time period,  that was made for general consumer use. Many features in the Macintosh were things that Jobs had seen in a demonstration at Xerox, such as a mouse and a file system. Jobs took total control over the project, forcing people to work extra hours to make the computer suit his wants and desires. Eventually by 1984 everything came together, and the Macintosh was put on the market.