World of Apple

First off if your reading this expecting to see images of a big party at the Regent Street Store then sadly your wrong, but World of Apple did try and bring the birthday spirit to London…

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Read the first two parts of this series:

Part 1 - 1976 - 1986

Part 2 - 1986 - 1996

Apple’s board had ousted Gilbert Amelio from his position as Chairman and CEO and was searching for a replacement, the board immediately turned to Steve Jobs, he denied the position but did offer to help Apple for up to 90 days while they searched for a CEO. The board contemplated this and returned to Jobs, they asked his if he would be Chairman, he denied that position also. But Steve did agree to simply become a member of the board, but nothing more.

Although just a member of the board Steve took a de-facto leadership of Apple, on August 6 1997 at MacWorld Expo Boston Steve announced to the audience some shocking news, Apple’s board was going through a major reshuffle with the majority of the current board resigning and a new one moving in.

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In February Apple announced that the Universal version of Aperture would be released in March. Apparently Apple have slipped this release and it is now expected to ship in mid-April, although this is not confirmed by Apple.

Apple’s page has simply been updated to say “shipping soon”

Read the other parts of this series:

Part 1 - 1976 - 1986

Part 3 - 1996 - 2006

Apple Computer was now 10 years old and was dominating the personal computer industry but things were not looking good, Steve Jobs was out of the picture running a separate company away from Apple and Sculley was at the head of Apple leading the company into rough waters, in a matter of a couple of years, Jobs was ousted, Wozniak resigned, the Lisa was discontinued and Microsoft released Windows 1.01. If things couldn’t be worse Apple was battling out a lawsuit with NeXT Computer although this was quickly dropped in 1986.

With the Apple III discontinued just a few years after its conception it was lucky that the Apple II was still selling well, but Apple’s focus was split, the Mac team was regularly improving the Macintosh with the Mac Plus and then the Mac 512k.

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DailyTech is reporting that Gateway have accidentally jumped the gun by offering a new notebook which is powered by a new Intel Ultra Low Voltage Core Solo processor.

The new ULV processors clock in at 1.06GHz and 1.2GHz with a 533MHz bus and featuring 2MB of L2 cache.

It seems that Intel will officially announce this new processor on April 16th, it is widely expected that such high performance, low voltage processors will make it into the upcoming iBook.

Read the next two parts of this series:

Part 2 - 1986 - 1996

Part 3 - 1996 - 2006

Well as you all know 2006 marks the 30th year since Apple Computer was founded and in a mere 3 days it will be the exact date since Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne started Apple.

Steve Jobs (left) and Steve Wozniak (right) in 1976

You may be asking yourself who Ronald Wayne is, well he is often described as the silent partner of Apple, Ron worked with Steve Wozniak at Atari and was offered a place on the “side” business that Woz was starting, Ron wrote manuals and even designed the first Apple logo. He was given 10% control of Apple but after only a few months sold his stock for a measly $800, it is estimated that today his 10% could be worth up to $6 billion although he claims it was “the best decision available at that time”.

Today it was the turn of Apple Computer to fights its side of the battle, rejecting claims by Apple Corps Ltd. that selling music via the iTunes Music Store was a violation of an agreement made in 1991.

Apple Computer lawyer Anthony Grabiner said that “distribution of digital entertainment content” was permitted under the agreement made in 1991. he went on to say “even a moron in a hurry” could distinguish between a computer company selling music and a record label.

“Data transmission is within our field of use. That’s what (the agreement) says and it is inescapable” said Grabiner.

Final Cut Studio 5.1 which is made up of Final Cut Pro 5, Soundtrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro 4 and Motion 2 is now fully Universal allowing it to work natively on both Intel and PPC systems.

Final Cut Studio 5.1 costs $1,299 (£899.99).

Customers wishing to Crossgrade can view the prices on the relevant Apple pages.

Crossgrade in the UK
Crossgrade in the US

Today was the opening day of the court battle between Apple Corps and Apple Computer.

Apple Corps made opening arguments in its request for an injunction that would bar the computer manufacturer from using its logo - an apple with a bite taken out - to advertise the sale of music through iTunes.

Apple Corps attorney Geoffrey Vos played an iTunes advertisement in front of the court depicting exclusive tracks from Coldplay, the ad ends with the Apple Computer logo.

“That advertisement is as flagrant violation of this agreement as it is possible to imagine,” Vos said.

Alan Hely of Apple Computers corporate communications director had the following to say about the case:

“Over a decade ago, Apple signed an agreement with Apple Corps, a business controlled by the Beatles and their heirs, which specified the rights each company would have to use the “Apple” trademark. Unfortunately, Apple and Apple Corps now have differing interpretations of this agreement and will need to ask a court to resolve this dispute.”

Available in Software Update for around 27.7MB:

iPod Updater 2006-03-23 delivers:

Volume limit
Bug fixes

[Update] With this update Apple has added a new function to iPods, Volume limit provides an easy way to set the maximum output volume to prevent an iPod from exceeding this level.

“As the leading provider of digital music players, Apple continuously brings iPod customers innovative and easy to use solutions,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide iPod Product Marketing. “With the increased attention in this area, we want to offer customers an easy to use option to set their own personal volume limit.”