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Apple became a partnership on April 1, 1976. Success came rapidly and soon the company began passing out shares to valued employees and founders. A lot of shares went to the founders.

Apple IIs were selling well and Apple decided to raise cash (and personal net…

Say what you will about MacHeist's ethics, but you can't deny the group provides huge exposure to independent Mac developers who elect to participate in the program. Through ARG-style online puzzles and slick videos and websites, they turn the relatively mundane act of purchasing software into an…

One or two new screen-capturing applications seem to come out every year. Even the latest version of QuickTime Player in Snow Leopard now contains a rudimentary screen recording feature.

You simply open QuickTime Player, select File>New Recording and once you click the red record…

There is no small amount of drama to be found when recalling the public comments of Steve Jobs and Michael Dell.

Michael Dell quipped that if he were President of Apple he would close the company and give the money back to the stockholders. Steve Jobs…

Someday, there will be a time when our way of life causes our destruction. There could be a physical attack on the fiber-optic and phone lines that provides us with Internet service, and America's infrastructure will be hopelessly crippled — or terrorists could successfully destroy one of…

It wasn't surprising when Apple's iTunes was named "Brand of the Year" and Steve Jobs was named "Visionary of the Year" by Billboard's Digital Music Awards. What would have been surprising is if Apple hadn't swept the awards altogether.

And in fact, Apple didn't. "Download Service…

It was Halloween. The doorbell rang. You saw zombies, Elvises and pregnant nuns. You also saw you share of crappy costumes bought at the local Walmart but one costume you didn't see was the iPhone Killer. The reason an iPhone killer didn't darken your…

Apple's relationship with retailers has always been tenuous. Macs have been sold (and subsequently pulled from) Circuit City, Sears and Best Buy, to name a few. One chain reseller Apple has gotten along with a little better than others over the years has been CompUSA.

For…

There is no doubt that Apple is a successful company. I've seen more Macs and iPhones in my university campus than ever before—Apple has cornered the market on "cool" and "hip". And of course, Apple markets itself as the company that makes products that "just work."

At an investors’ conference Steve Jobs was queried about moving OS X to Intel. While he admitted such a thing was possible, he was dismissive of the notion, to wit:

"Right now we don't see a compelling need to switch processor families. We have all the…