Apple's chief sees future in electronics: 'multimedia' machines are due out this year
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Apple CEO John Sculley announced Apple's plans to enter the consumer electronics industry with a slew of new products that will be sold at audio and video stores. Sculley believes the computer and electronics industries are converging. One product being developed by Apple are the personal digital assistants which Apple hopes to produce by 1993. Other products will include Apple Macintoshes with built-in CD ROM drives for storing images, data and playing video games. The educational and business markets will also receive products that should be made available by the end of 1992. Apple is working with several Japanese companies in the development of products that can mimic the electronic personal information systems, electronic books and appointment calendars. Microsoft Corp is experimenting with similar projects using its Windows operating system.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1992
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Apple and Microsoft set video display advances
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Apple Computer Inc plans to introduce a new software technology its calls QuickTime, designed to make it easier for Macintosh microcomputers to work with video images and animation. Microsoft Corp is expected to announce that it is licensing software from Xing Technology Corp, which will be incorporated into Microsoft's products, including the popular Windows operating environment, to enhance multimedia capabilities. These moves bring both companies closer to 'multimedia computing.' What ultimately is envisioned is an interactive system similar to a television set but that incorporates a computer's ability to let a user exercise control, offering information or entertainment in forms of text, audio and moving video images. Apple's plans to include its QuickTime technology in the System operating system for Apple's Macintosh microcomputer.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1991
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Adobe set to disclose technology; typeface data to be shared after Apple and Microsoft move
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Adobe Systems will reveal the technology behind the Postscript typeface. Publication of Postscript's specifications will mean that typeface designers will no longer have to pay royalties to the company for using the Adobe font format. The company's decision to move away from proprietary technology toward open systems was in response to the Apple-Microsoft agreement to jointly develop an alternative typeface technology. Adobe says the move will not affect the company in the short term and that it is difficult to forecast what the long-term affect will be. IBM, already committed to supporting the Apple-Microsoft technology, has said that it may also support other formats.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1989
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