Word: macintoshs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...white sportswear raced past them. She approached an enormous screen casting Big Brother’s unhappy gaze upon the crowd and the woman launched the projectile, shattering his visage. The screen froze and words began to scroll: “On January 24th, Apple Computers will introduce Macintosh. And you’ll see why 1984 won’t be like...
...Latin,” to “various calculations and experiments in math and physics courses, and in German, for learning vocabulary.” Others who didn’t own a computer seemed ready to make the purchase: one wrote, “Get me a Macintosh!” while another responded, “personal computers are the way to go!” One student who didn’t own a computer but shared one with a roommate wrote, “I cannot foresee my preparing a paper using anything else...
...biggest winners here, for instance, is Adobe, whose Air engine (it's free and runs on any PC, Macintosh or Linux computer) will drive many, if not most, of the new Facebook applications. Air creates, in geek parlance, a "run time" - think of it as a universal mini-operating system across all computers. Developers, writing in Flash, can build an application once, and it runs on any computer. About 100 million people have installed it to date. Its most popular application? Tiny programs that make Twitter easier to use than its lean website interface. (See, for instance, Tweetdeck...
...geekspeak, AIR is an application runtime - a small chunk of code you download for free that then becomes a platform upon which other applications can run. AIR is compatible with any Windows, Macintosh or Linux computer and has been downloaded 100 million times. "We're aiming for a consistent experience across all devices," says Lynch, touching the screen to launch an International Herald Tribune app. It looks identical to but somehow better than the paper version of that newspaper. It feels alive. "You can do anything you want with AIR. It's totally expressive," he says, with a gentle...
...first time in Apple's history, it reported quarterly revenue that topped $10 billion. It sold 2.5 million Macintosh computers, a 9 percent jump over the previous quarter, even as the rest of the PC industry contracted. The company also sold over 22.7 million iPods in the quarter with most of the growth occurring in international markets, according to COO Tim Cook. Indeed, Cook said that iPod sales in the U.S. actually contracted 3 percent in the quarter...