Atkinson Bill Atkinson was one of the original developers of the Macintosh
Published: 22nd December 2010
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April Fools" Day Not an auspicious day to found your company but in 1976 at least in keeping with the cheeky nature of Apple co-founder and noted trickster Steve Wozniak, and Steve Jobs' knowing smirk.
Aqua Aqua just used to be one of the few words you knew when you went to Europe on holiday, but for most of us it's also the shiny,Toshiba pa3191u battery translucent, sometimes pulsing visual theme of early versions of Mac OS X. Describing Aqua's glossy aesthetic Steve Jobs said: "One of the design goals was when you saw it you wanted to lick it." Nowadays there's not as much to tongue in the Mac interface but some elements persist, such as the traffic-light Close, Minimize and Open buttons at the top-left of folder and document windows.
AT&T Now the exclusive and hated US iPhone mobile carrier AT&T was once in negotiations to merge with Apple in a deal pushed by Apple's then CEO John Sculley in 1993. It very nearly happened but AT&T felt burned by its botched buyout of PC maker NCR and walked away "Boy,Toshiba pa3395u-1brs battery you have a phenomenal company. You have exactly what we need. But we bought the wrong company," CEO Bob Allen told a devastated Sculley over the phone, of course. (Source: 'Apple: The Inside Story of Intrigue, Egomania, and Business Blunders' by Jim Carlton)
Atari Steve Jobs worked for arcade games company Atari before growing up and founding Apple. He got his pal Woz to help him design a prototype of the later legendary Breakout game for the company.
Responsible for the QuickDraw toolbox that underpinned the new graphical user interface making him the "principal designer of the Macintosh UI". He also created the computer Menu Bar, MacPaint and the Marching Ants selection animation (which he based on a tasteless beer sign he spotted in a bar; the sign was tasteless, not the beer).Toshiba pa3399u-2brs battery He is now a noted photographer.
AirPort Except maybe banging an inter-cap in its names Apple loves nothing more than a smart but dull pun, and so picked AirPort as the title for its Wi-Fi products in 1999. Confusingly the first AirPort Base Station actually resembled a UFO. It has to be admitted, however, that it's catchier than the more formal IEEE 802.11.
Aluminum (Or aluminium as we outside of the US jauntily like to call it) "We're turning to aluminum and glass" Steve Jobs announced in 2007.
Apple has something of a crush on aluminum making most of its hardware products out of the silvery white member of the boron group of chemical elements, and even simulating the stuff indiscriminately with its brushed metal software and across its website.
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