http://www.applematters.com/history/ en chris@applematters.com Copyright 2009 2009-11-08T12:29:00-05:00 http://www.applematters.com/article/november-7-1980-apple-files-paperwork-to-go-public-sorry-massachusetts/ 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 worth) by going… 2009-11-07T12:42:00-05:00 http://www.applematters.com/article/november-6-1997-jobs-eyes-dell/ 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 answered that salvo… 2009-11-06T12:36:00-05:00 http://www.applematters.com/article/november-5-2004-jobs-itunes-honored/ 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 of the Year"… 2009-11-05T12:21:00-05:00 http://www.applematters.com/article/november-4-1997-store-within-a-store-program-begins/ 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 many people, prior… 2009-11-04T12:16:01-05:00 http://www.applematters.com/article/november-3-2003-no-need-for-intel/ 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 options in the… 2009-11-03T11:37:00-05:00 http://www.applematters.com/article/november-2-2004-firefox-comes-to-the-mac/ When OS X first debuted the browser of choice was Internet Explorer 5. Then Apple released Safari, a direct competitor to Internet Explorer. Microsoft used the introduction of Safari as the reason the company stopped development of IE for the Mac, but the consensus was that Safari was… 2009-11-02T12:26:00-05:00 http://www.applematters.com/article/november-1-1983-steve-jobs-goes-ballistic/ When Bill Gates announced Windows 1.0 before the Mac came out, Steve Jobs was furious, so furious he demanded that the Apple employee in charge of Microsoft relations get Bill Gates to Apple's campus the next day.Bill Gates made the trip to Cupertino for what would be, obviously,… 2009-11-01T11:54:00-05:00 http://www.applematters.com/article/october-31-2005-apple-sells-a-million-videos/ With the introduction of the video iPod, iTunes was forced into double duty. Not only did the online store sell music it now sold videos. And judging from this Apple headline—iTunes Music Store Sells One Million Videos in Less Than 20 Days—iTunes was doing just fine in the video business,… 2009-10-31T11:16:00-05:00 http://www.applematters.com/article/october-30-2002-ipod-availability-increases/ When the iPod debuted in October of 2001, few imagined what a hit the diminutive player would become, propelling Apple's profits and stock price into the stratosphere.There were several key moments along the way that moved the iPod from trendy Mac add on to must have mainstream music… 2009-10-30T12:26:00-05:00 http://www.applematters.com/article/october-28-1991-apple-monitors-break-the-20-barrier/ Apple knew that when it comes to monitors the bigger the better. One of the company's earliest efforts to grab the big monitor market (and the requisite jumbo-sized profits) was the Macintosh 21 inch color monitor. A veritable behemoth at 80 lbs, the 21 appelation hid the true viewable size… 2009-10-28T10:03:01-05:00