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A "snapshot" of its own data center (moved section)
I brought the following section out of the page because it's an arguably specific info in an already quite long page. Maybe there's a better place for this? BTW, what's Fried? --Chealer 01:32, 2004 Dec 8 (UTC)
Fried refers to CNet reporter Ina Fried, I believe this piece in particular: Apple Drinks Its Own Juice. --jsnell 2005, Jun 1
On January 8 , 2004 at the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Apple revealed information about its own internal data center with which it runs the company. The following is a partial list of products it used as revealed during the 2004 Expo, with each product followed by its applications, according to D. Rally, who at that time was Apple's senior IT director (as cited in Fried, 2004). It should be noted that such information could change constantly, and judging from Apple's past information-disclosure practices (Fried, 2004), it is possible that a similar public revelation will never occur again.
- Apple Xserve servers and Apple Xserve RAID systems
- Serving web pages, applications, and other data
- Data storage
- Authentication and security
- Servers from Sun Microsystems
- "Powering" its email systems
- Servers running the IBM AIX operating system
- Microsoft Office (for the Mac platform)
- PeopleSoft 8
- Customer relationship management
- Software from i2
- Forecasting
- Products and/or services from SAP (which Apple has used for a long time)
- Warranty and Service Management - SAP R/3
Furthermore, according to Fried (2004), Apple " its own products for most desktop tasks, including e-mail, instant messaging and Web browsing." Presumably, these products were Apple Mail, iChat, and Safari, respectively.
For data storage, Apple over the years has used servers from EMC, then IBM, and by 2005, it plans to use mostly Xserve servers.
Ambiguity about "award-winning releases"
Nothing important, but what releases does the article talk about with "This reversed the earlier trend within Microsoft that resulted in poor Mac versions of their software and resulted in several award-winning releases." Releases of Mac OS?--Chealer 01:52, 2004 Dec 8 (UTC)
Releases of MS Office for the Mac.--RicardoC 01:08, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
Marketshare
I've pulled this couple of sentences.
Does anyone have a reliable source for any of these numbers? AlistairMcMillan 14:35, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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Mac OS X and "stability, reliabilty and security"
From the article "In 2001, Apple introduced Mac OS X, an operating system based on NeXT's NeXTstep, that finally marries the stability, reliability and security of Unix with the ease of use of the Macintosh interface in an OS targeted at professionals and consumers alike."
Isn’t the above statement to much POV? I type this on a Powerbook, but its stability, reliability, security and ease of use is still a POV, not a fact. Of course you can support that POV with good arguments, i.e. statistics of how often a OS X computer is attacked compared with how often a Windows machine is attacked, or semi-professional studies of people preferences on ease of use, but it is still POV. If nobody has any objections, I will soon change the above statement. M4c 15:35, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I have chagned this, said Apple Claims "Stability, Reliability and Security", also added that there is lots of third party evidence to back the point up Eraserhead1 15:04, 31 December 2005 (UTC)Eraserhead1
Recent history
The recent history section is incomplete, and pretty random on the things it does cover. So I've made it my mission to clean it up and improve the coverage. I have split it in two, 1984-1997 and 1998-present, because they really are two eras. I've also added a paragraph on the Apple IIc and Apple IIgs.
There's lots more to do. The major problem is that it's disjointed: it jumps from one random little thing to another, rather than working through the important trends. I'll continue working on it when I have the time. But in the meantime, please help if you can. —RadRafe 09:21, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Apple naming
OK, I know this subject has been beaten to death, but I was looking at the article Apple Bonjour, and the naming for the article is just wrong. The phrase "apple bonjour" does not appear anywhere as a phrase on apple's site . If anything, it shows up as "Apple - Bonjour" in the title or "Apple's Bonjour". If we were to follow Wikipedia:Naming conventions, the title would be Bonjour (protocol). Similar reasoning stands to change the names for Apple Automator, Apple Darwin, Apple Dashboard and Apple Spotlight. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 21:23, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
Apple logo myth?
I have heard someone talking about the apple logo (the apple with a bite out of it) being based on the great mathemetician, code breaker and pioneer in computing, Alan Turing, commiting suicide by poisoning and apple and then eating it. Is this true? Any comments greatly appreciated.
Opteron first?
A user put in the article about how the AMD Opteron was actually the first 64 bit processor avalible in personal machines... I was under the impression that the Opteron at that time was limited to the server segment. Comments please? --CoolFox 15:53, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
Wow... Intel inside an Apple.
Well, it happend folks... hell has practically frozen over. Apple officialy stated in today's keynote that they will begin using Intel x86 chips as soon as early next year. Personaly, I find this a very bi-latteral move on Apple's part. It can help them immensly by wedging into the Microsoft Windows market, but it leaves many hardcore mac fans somewhat betrayed. I also question the furtherablity of the Pentium 4... hopefully Apple will be using a different chip that Intel is producing by then. Pentium M , anyone? Comments please! --CoolFox 19:33, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
- ::Shakes thermostat:: Yep, pretty close to freezing. Let's see, deep throat revealed, check. Apple using intel processors, check. Hmm, I am just waiting on the opening of a lemondae stand at area 51. --Ctrl build talk 15px| 19:44, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
It's only good IF they put OSX on x86... Otherwise it's going to be the same ole 5% market share for Apple with a bunch of angry software devs.--66.25.63.245 15:46, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Deleted mission statement
I deleted the mission statement ("to make the power of computing available and accessible to everyone") because it is no longer current. The new one is here, but I would suggest we leave it out of the article -- or at least the lead -- because it would be redundant. Bbpen 21:00, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Notable Litigation
I split out the Litigation into its own section, leaving everything that had been in "Apple as a Corporation" intact. I added two of the most notable cases in Apple legal history, Apple v. Franklin and Apple v. Microsoft, both of which have extensive articles but were not mentioned in the main Apple article. I also added the current iPod battery class-action settlement.
I feel that the two domain-squatting cases are beneath notice for encyclopedic content. Apple has sued or been sued thousands of times, and these two cybersquatting cases don't affect consumers, didn't set precedents, and didn't materially affect the operations or reputation of the firm. I recommend they be removed. cde 05:36, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
The section on the Does/ThinkSecret cases is horribly out of date and factually inaccurate (the judge specifically mentioned in the Does case that the question of whether journalists are bloggers is not at issue). Will update if/when I get time, but if anyone wants to do it before me, feel free. ]
The date for the latest Apple v. Apple litigation has been set for March 27, 2006 in the UK. The source of this information is (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/06/apple_vs_apple_trial_date/). Article edited. Basseq 23:06, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Merge with Intel Apple
I'm removing the Wiki at the top of this article. Intel Apple is not an article, it is a poorly written non-encyclopedic stub which should not have been made into a separate Wikipedia entry, especially with a title like that. Furthermore, that Apple will adopt Intel chips is already stated in the Apple Computer article in more depth and more proper English than the contents of that stub. Ramallite 12:58, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
A proposal about the History section
I propose to split off the bulk of the sections on Appl
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