Sentences with phrase «before apple computer»

Before Apple Computer Inc. launched the first of its wildly successful stores in McLean, Va., in May of 2001, George Blankenship, then head of the company's real estate division, sat down with executives at Asterop, Inc., a site selection software provider, to talk about location strategy.

Before Apple Computer Inc. launched the first of its wildly successful stores in McLean, Va., in May of 2001, George Blankenship, then head of the company's real estate division, sat down with executives at Asterop, Inc., a site selection software...

Not exact matches

Even Apple, one of the most valuable companies ever, started out with a small, devoted fan base of early computer lovers in the 1970s before anyone had a computer in their home.

While Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak had been friends since high school, the pair worked together at Atari before founding Apple Computer with Ron Wayne, also an Atari alumnus.

For example, before a computer can understand that an apple in a photo is indeed an apple, it needs to have been «trained» on previous photos of apples that humans accurately labeled with the right fruit.

Before Lotus 1 -2-3, VisiCalc, which was designed for Apple II computers in 1979, dominated the desktop spreadsheet market.

The second was that the company was changing its name from Apple Computer, Inc. to simply Apple Inc. — showing that even before it went on sale the company recognized how transformative to its business the iPhone would become.

Before becoming a financial advisor, Taylor had a 20 - year career in high technology including senior management positions at Apple Computer, Oracle Corporation and two startups.

Anyone born before 1985 probably still thinks reflexively of Apple as a computer company - one of the pioneers of personal computers and the inventor of the still - popular «Mac» brand.

Building on the success of this portable media player, Apple then effectively created the touchscreen smartphone industry before then moving on to make the tablet computer concept a real product and an actual success.

Apple launched its digital assistant for iPhones in 2011 before deploying it in other Apple products, including Mac computers, iPad, iPod and the recently launched HomePod.

Before I dive in, let me just say that my computer is still at the Apple store, so I won't be able to put up my photos of everything I packed until tomorrow (hopefully!)

Just moments before taking the stage to introduce the NeXT Computer, Jobs is challenged by Apple CEO John Sculley (Jeff Daniels), about the myths surrounding why Jobs was ousted.

When someone who has never used a computer before asks my advice concerning a new computer, I always steer them toward an Apple product.

Before the iPhone and the iPad there was the Apple II personal computer.

Once companies like Apple got a foothold among these nonconsumers, it was only a matter of time before they improved personal computer technology to serve more and more demanding customers and disrupted the computing industry as we knew it.

Amazon.com is letting two more major publishers raise prices of electronic books for Kindle readers in deals struck just days before Apple releases rival iPad computer tablets, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Online retail giant Amazon plans to unveil a tablet computer before October in a bid to carve out a slice of a growing market dominated by Apple's iPad, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

There has been no dearth of tablet PCs after Apple popularized the segment with its iPad though none has ever been themed on a popular computer game anytime before.

Samsung has sold more than 1 million Apple iPad rival Galaxy Tab tablet computers worldwide, a significant jump for a product that notched 600,000 units sold two weeks ago before the Thanksgiving holiday rush.

Apple used to sell the iSight FireWire camera before all of its computers and displays started shipping with built - in cameras.

I am in no way an advocate for apple, I think that apple is a fanatical cult that has terrorized humanity for generations before the invention of computers, that said.

While Apple is busy creating its next super device to replace the multiplex, everyone else in the computer industry is reportedly so nervous about the Apple tablet they're waiting to see what the product looks like before imitating or ripping it off.

The biggest threat could come from a color touch - screen tablet computer from Apple that's widely expected to appear before April, McQuivey said.

A full decade before the Apple Watch, Microsoft introduced its own computer on a wrist.

In San Francisco, companies like the Gap (founded 1969) and Apple Computer (1976) seized the new American economy and mindset well before the first dot - com boom.

Long before the iPhone and iPad, I found that Apple computers were reliable, rugged machines that simply work.

But before all you Windows users get too excited, the software works only on Apple Macintosh computers.

Other companies unsuccessfully tried to launch tablet computers before Apple broke through with the iPad.

It ALMOST makes me want to go iOS, but not quite — I must have microSD and I've never been a fan of the Apple ecosystem (I did own an Apple IIc computer in the 80's before there were ecosystems, and when memory was measured in KBs!).

The late - 2013 version of Apple's high - end professional notebook, the 15 - inch MacBook Pro with Retina display, is a computer in a class of its own, offering a near - perfect blend of style and performance in a more affordable package than before.

Still, Apple is a long way from suggesting that your next iPhone could be your next workhorse computer, too... even though Apple's head of marketing, Phil Schiller, in a rare interview, just said that «you should be using the smallest possible gadget to do as much as possible before going to the next largest gizmo in line.»

The iPad is slowly transforming into a computer before our eyes, and the latest move by Apple is the most striking: developing a keyboard for the iPad Pro line.

It is also worth noting before you decide to take the plunge on an Apple Music trial that Apple Music does not have a web client, so in order to listen to it on a computer, you will have to download iTunes.

Apple's board of directors hoped Sculley would help Apple compete against IBM, which launched its IBM Personal Computer two years before.

For example, say John worked for Dell Computers for six years before moving to Apple.