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24 unusual facts about Apple


Ama Dablam

Apple included an image of Ama Dablam by photographer Nick Meek in the set of new wallpapers included with the mobile operating system iOS 7, released on September 18, 2013.

Appetizer Mobile

Mobile applications developed by Appetizer Mobile have been featured in two of Apple’s nationwide TV commercials: “Intro to Math” was featured in the "We Believe" iPad 2 commercial, and “Intro to Letters” was featured in the Apple iPad commercial, "iPad is Electric."

Apple's transition to Intel processors

Others say that it could be a boon to switchers, since they would not have to leave their Windows applications behind while trying out Mac OS X. The idea of Mac OS X being available on regular PCs has also been discussed, but Apple has said that they will not allow regular PCs to run Mac OS X. The OSx86 Project, however, is able to install Mac OS X on non-Apple PCs.

Intel Macs employ a different Intel technology for firmware, Extensible Firmware Interface, not the Open Firmware Apple had been using.

Arnold Kim

Dr. Arnold Kim (often referred to as "Arn" online) is the owner of MacRumors, a popular Apple rumors website.

Asturian people

Apple groves foster the production of the traditional alcoholic drink, a natural cider (sidra).

Computerware

Pressure from multiple new Apple-owned retail stores being opened and planned near existing ComputerWare by Elite Computers & Software stores, perceived Apple-owned store new product launch allocation favoritism along with changes by Apple to its' Apple Authorized Dealer Contracts contributed to the store closures.

Cumberland and Oxford Canal

Apples were an important agricultural product of the area; and Oriental Powder Company mills adjacent to the canal in Windham manufactured nearly 25% of the Union gunpowder supply for the American Civil War.

Evasi0n

Four of the six exploits used were patched by Apple on March 18, 2013 with the release of iOS 6.1.3.

Evolution Fresh

In 2011, Evolution produces five types of juice with the pascalization or High Pressure Process, Orange, Grapefruit, Lemonade, Apple and Tangerine.

Guerrilla filmmaking

The advent of digital cameras and home computer editing systems such as Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer and Premiere are a contributing factor to the increase in guerrilla filmmaking.

Internet in Japan

No major foreign firms have successfully entered the market, with the exception of smartphones by Apple and Samsung.

Jaseiken Necromancer

In February 2011, the game was released as "Necromancer" on Apple's App Store.

Kaprin

People are also associated with the business of the Apple and other varieties of the fruit.

Laurence Tosi

In January 2011, Tosi was offered the job of CFO at Apple by Steve Jobs, but turned it down.

MacBooster

MacBooster is a third-party system cleaning and optimization utility for Apple Mac OS X aimed to boost Mac computer by cleaning junks, unwanted apps and ram etc.

Murray County Central School District

The high school maintains four separate computer labs holding both Apple and PC computers.

Net Applications

While the statistics released by the company routinely place Operating Systems sold by Microsoft (Windows) and Apple (Mac OS X) with a high market share in the desktop computer category (through 2013), Vincent Vizzaccaro (EVP - Marketing and Strategic Alliances, Net Applications, 2002-) has stated that Microsoft and Apple are among the company's clients.

Robert A. Leonard

He was Apple’s linguist in its civil trademark cases against both Microsoft and Amazon.

Sirghaya

Economy for this town is based on agricultural activities and the main crops are (Apple, Cherry, Pear, Peach and Apricot).

Stanislav Shalunov

It is now used by companies including Apple and BitTorrent and accounts for between 13% and 20% of all Internet traffic.

Stuart Cheshire

Stuart Cheshire is a Distinguished Engineer, Scientist and Technologist (DEST) at Apple.

ToolBook

Toolbook uses the metaphor of books and pages, similar to Hypercard's "stack and virtual card" which was released for the Apple environment on the same years.

William Morris Endeavor

WME's Commercials Division helps partner clients with notable brands like AT&T, Apple, Dior, Samsung, Gucci, Mercedes, Pepsi and Absolut Vodka.


Antrim, New Hampshire

Cutlery was the big industry in this small town, beginning with the manufacturing of apple-paring machines in 1864.

Apple Creek, Missouri

In the early 1820s German Catholic immigrants from the Baden area were the first to settle Apple Creek.

Apple II graphics

All Apple II machines featured an RCA jack providing a rough NTSC, PAL, or SECAM composite video output (on non-NTSC machines before the Apple IIe this output is black-and-white only).

Apple QuickTake

For users with an Apple Macintosh running System 7 up to Mac OS 9 with a serial port, the QuickTake 200 can be plugged directly into the computer using the Apple QuickTake camera software.

Apple Worm

Because the Apple Worm performs dynamic self-relocation within the one main memory of one computer, it does not constitute a computer virus, an apt if somewhat inaccurate description.

Applied engineering

Applied Engineering, a hardware vendor for the Apple II series of computers

Arial Unicode MS

The font is also apparently licensed to Apple, who announced on October 16, 2007 that their flagship operating system, Mac OS X v10.5 ("Leopard"), would be bundled with Arial Unicode.

ASCII Express

AE II runs on any Apple II with DOS 3.x and one of a small handful of modems available, including the Hayes Micromodem II.

Battle Bears Gold

Battle Bears Gold supports monetary transactions through the Google Play store, Windows 8 Store, and the Apple iTunes/App Store.

Bloomberg Terminal

There are also applications that allow mobile access via Android, BlackBerry, and iOS.

Carrie Barton

She has recurred on such television series as Tribes and Aaron Spelling's Sunset Beach and was a series regular on Apple Valley Knights, aka Sitting on a Rainbow.

Chrysophyllum cainito

The Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott immortalizes the fruit as a symbol of the Caribbean itself in his 1979 collection, The Star-Apple Kingdom.

Cotoneaster cambricus

Cotoneaster cambricus (Wild Cotoneaster; Welsh: Creigafal y Gogarth "rock apple of Gogarth") is a species of Cotoneaster endemic to the Great Orme peninsula in north Wales.

Dinghy Young

On the return journey, A-Apple was brought down by anti-aircraft fire, probably by gunners at Castricum-aan-Zee, who reported shooting down an aircraft at 2.58am.

Dorcus parallelipipedus

Adults as well as larvae are found in very soft decaying wood of broad-leaved trees, especially ash (Fraxinus excelsior), beech (Fagus sylvatica) and apple (Malus spp).

DV

DV Audio/Video data can be stored as raw DV data stream file (data is written to a file as the data is received over FireWire, file extensions are .dv and .dif) or the DV data can be packed into container files (ex: Microsoft AVI, Apple MOV).

Fatehgarh

This is well known that founder of Apple (iPhone) Steve Jobs once visited India especially to meet the famous saint.

Foxwhelp

This is one of the oldest surviving varieties of cider apple; it is first mentioned in John Evelyn's Advertisements Concerning Cider in his work Pomona of 1664, in which it is commented that "cider for strength ... is best made of the Fox-whelp of the Forest of Dean, but which comes not to be drunk until two or three years old".

Graham Robertson

Based on the experiences of directing Able Edwards, Robertson went on to write the book, Desktop Cinema: Feature Filmmaking on the Home Computer, a step-by-step account into how one would make their own feature film on Apple's Macintosh computer.

Group code recording

This scheme is known as "6 and 2", and was used on Apple Pascal, Apple DOS 3.3 and ProDOS, and later on the 400K and 800K 3½ disks on the Macintosh and Apple II.

GSM frequency bands

As a more recent example the Apple iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S support quad-band GSM at 850/900/1,800/1,900 MHz, quad-band UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA at 850/900/1,900/2,100 MHz, and dual-band CDMA EV-DO Rev. A at 800/1,900 MHz, for a total of 'six' different frequencies (though at most four in a single mode).

ITools

MobileMe, a service from Apple formerly known as "iTools" and ".Mac"

ITunes Originals – Fiona Apple

iTunes Originals – Fiona Apple is an iTunes Originals release by American singer-songwriter Fiona Apple, released in the United States on February 14, 2006 (see 2006 in music).

John J. Anderson

John began writing the "Apple Cart" column in Creative Computing magazine in January 1983 following another Apple // legend, David Lubar who left the magazine to work for a video game company in California.

LCER

Lewis Center for Educational Research, an educational organization in Apple Valley, California

Local area network

Although this market segment is now much reduced, the technologies developed in this area continue to be influential on the Internet and in both Linux and Apple Mac OS X networking—and the TCP/IP protocol has now almost completely replaced IPX, AppleTalk, NBF, and other protocols used by the early PC LANs.

Merrydown

The very first batch of Merrydown Vintage Cider was fermented from 450 gallons of apple juice using a 300 year-old oak cider press borrowed from a local farmer and within a year the scale of production had outgrown Mr Ward's garage at his home in Rotherfield and the partners bought Horam Manor, with seven acres of land.

Nat Emerson

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in October 1874 to Henry & Edith Emerson, he moved to Yakima, Washington by 1911, where he owned an apple orchard.

North East Surrey College Of Technology

The school is recognised as an Apple Authorised Training Centre and holds academy status with CISCO, Microsoft, and Oracle as a specialist training provider.

Nottingham Trent University, School of Art and Design

In the field of art and design, NTU has links with a wide range of companies, professional bodies and institutions on an international level, including Apple, Arcadia Group, Broadway, Fashion Institute of Technology, Marks & Spencer, Ralsey Group Limited, Association of Illustrators, Sony, and Sophie Stellar.

OpenMAX

Promoting members in 2008 were AMD, Apple, ARM, Creative, Dell Inc, Ericsson, Freescale, Imagination Technologies Group plc, Intel, IBM, Motorola, Nokia, Nvidia Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, SK Telecom, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc and Texas Instruments.

Ribston Hall

The estate is believed to have given its name to the Ribston Pippin apple.

Riin Tamm

Tamm has published in scientific journals and presented research to a broader public in other venues, including the newspaper Postimees, Radio Kuku's program Falling Apple (Kukkuv õun - 28 August 2010), and Eesti Televisioon's program Good Vision (15 October 2009, 20 October 2011, 17 January 2012).

RunRev

The company is supported by a number of investors including Mike Markkula who originally invested in Apple Computer Inc in 1976 and brought that company to market.

Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life

Michael Apple (1982, 1986) examined the hidden curriculum and concludes teachers are being proletarianised as the profession is de-skilled through the standardised curriculum.

Sengkang Riverside Park

The 16 different fruit trees that can be found in the trail are Mangosteen Tree, Ordeal Tree, Custard Apple, Pomelo, Lime, Weeping Tea Tree, Island Lychee, Mango, Pond Apple Tree, Asam Tree, Java Olive Tree, Elephant Apple, Fish Killer Tree, Starfruit, Pig's Mango and Wine Palm.

Sonneratia

The Sonneratia are called 'berembang' in Malaya, 'mangrove apple' in English, and 'Mangrovenapfel', "Pagatpat" in the Philippines, particularly in the Bataan and Pampanga region or 'Holzapfelmangrove' in German.

Stark Brothers Nurseries and Orchards

Stark Brothers Nurseries were the marketers of the Red Delicious and the Golden Delicious apple.

Sunnyvale Town Center

As of March 2013, the only active tenants of the downtown proper (apart from Target and Macy's) are Apple and Nokia, which have occupied office space along Mathilda Ave.

TeX

TeXShop for Apple Mac OS X, TeXworks for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and MS Windows, and WinShell for MS Windows are similar tools and provide an integrated development environment (IDE) for working with LaTeX or TeX.

Tzykanisterion

According to John Kinnamos, the tzykanion was played by two teams on horseback, equipped with long sticks topped by nets, with which they tried to push an apple-sized leather ball into the opposite team's goal.

Universal binary

A universal binary is, in Apple parlance, an executable file or application bundle that runs natively on either PowerPC or Intel-manufactured IA-32 or Intel 64-based Macintosh computers; it is an implementation of the concept more generally known as a fat binary.

WAPA

World Apple and Pear Association, an industry body representing major apple and pear producing countries globally

Whitton EP

The song "Apple Tree" was prominently placed in the 2010 film The 5th Quarter starring Andie MacDowell and Aidan Quinn.

Wichita Vortex Sutra

In January 2010, the poem was performed on stage by Ira Glass to Philip Glass's live accompaniment at the SoHo Apple store in New York City.

Wild custard apple

Annona senegalensis, which is also called African custard apple

You're the Apple of My Eye

Recorded after they were denied the opportunity to record another Blackwell song, "Don't Be Cruel", "You're the Apple of My Eye" was The Four Lovers' first exposure to U.S. national publicity, reaching the #62 position on the Billboard Hot 100 and earning the quartet an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.

"You're the Apple of My Eye" is a song written by Otis Blackwell and initially recorded and released as a single in 1956 by The Four Lovers, the precursor to The Four Seasons.