Apple (AAPL)

·       Determining the amount of equity-based awards.   The CEO did not receive an equity award in fiscal year 2006. RSUs were awarded to all other executive officers to encourage stock ownership and retention. The fiscal year 2006 RSU award to executive officers was designed to provide two years of grant value with the expectation that no new RSU award will be provided to these officers in fiscal year 2007. Equity-based awards are targeted above the 75th percentile of the market on an annualized basis.

·       Timing of grants.   All of the Company’s executive officers, excluding the CEO, were granted two years of grant value through the use of RSUs in fiscal year 2006, with the expectation that no new award will be provided in fiscal year 2007. With the exception of RSU grants to Anthony Fadell, the Company’s RSU grants have traditionally been made once every two years with vesting structured so that there is always a substantial amount that will be vested in two years and again in four years. This unvested value is intended to provide a strong retention component and continued alignment with shareholders’ interests over the long term:

·       Mr. Fadell was promoted to Senior Vice President, iPod Division during fiscal year 2006. His executive RSU grant vests 50% in fiscal year 2008 and 50% in fiscal year 2010.

·       Due to the two-year RSU grant design in 2006, the Committee anticipates next reviewing executive officer equity compensation positioning beginning in fiscal year 2008. The Company anticipates that such analysis and grant of equity awards to executive officers will occur annually after fiscal year 2007.