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In 2001 Apple Computer has been taken a decision to open a series of retail stores that would display their entire line of Apple computer products, software and peripherals. Part of the decision, Apple's declining share of the computer market. Now the company has opened over 130 stores, including in Japan, Canada and the UK. It's latest annual report states that they will continue capital expenditures for retail operations, indicating that they have a long-term strategy for opening more stores.
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Cupertino's relationship with Apple Computer has generally been symbiotic. Starting in the 1960s, Cupertino began to host industrial technology businesses, particularly in its VallCo Business Park. In 1976, Steve Jobs founded a small computing company--which quickly grew to be a major player. All told, Apple has generated billions of dollars in revenue and made the town "Cupertino" one of the most recognizable cities in the world.
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Market researcher IDC expects to announce within weeks that Linux PC market share in 2003 hit 3.2%, overtaking Apple Computer Inc.'s MacOS. And the researcher expects Linux to capture 6% of this market by 2007. That's still tiny compared with Microsoft's 94% share. Tags: Linux Blog posts 2004-02-13
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The next year, Apple lost its position as chief supplier of personal computers in Europe to IBM, and tried to challenge IBM in the business market with the Lisa computer. Lisa introduced the mouse, a hand-controlled pointer, and displayed pictures on the computer screen that substituted for keyboard commands. These innovations came out of Jobs's determination to design an unintimidating computer that anyone could use.
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The Apple II was introduced on April 16, 1977 at the first West Coast Computer Faire. It differed from its major rivals, the TRS-80 and Commodore PET, because it came with color graphics and an open architecture. While early models used ordinary cassette tapes as storage devices, this was quickly superseded by the introduction of a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk drive and interface, the Disk II.
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Apple Computer introduced the Apple /// in 1980 as a business system to compliment the Apple ][+. With the Apple /// Apple increased the available RAM to 128k and released a new operating system, the "Sophisticated Operating System (SOS), that was more user friendly and advanced then Apple DOS.
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