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These excerpts taken from the AAPL 10-K filed Dec 3, 2004. Internet Software, Integration, and Services Apple's Internet strategy is focused on delivering seamless integration with and access to the Internet throughout the Company's product lines. The Company's Internet products and technologies adhere to many industry standards in order to provide an optimized user experience through interoperability. An easy to use Internet Setup Assistant is included with the Mac OS. Safari Safari, the Company's Mac OS X compatible web browser, is capable of loading web pages rapidly. Safari uses the advanced interface technologies underlying Mac OS X and includes built-in Google search; SnapBack to instantly return to search results; a way to name, organize and present bookmarks; tabbed browsing; and automatic "pop-up" ad blocking. The Company also released a software development kit that allows developers to embed the Safari HTML rendering engine directly into their applications. Quicktime® QuickTime, the Company's multimedia software for either a Macintosh or Windows-based computer, features streaming of live and stored video and audio over the Internet and playback of high-quality audio and video on computers. QuickTime 6 includes the Instant-On Streaming feature that eliminates buffer delays and provides users with the ability to quickly and easily scrub through streaming media content to locate and instantly view specific sections. In addition, QuickTime 6 running on Mac OS X now supports JPEG 2000, the next generation JPEG standard that allows users to capture still images in a higher quality and smaller file size than ever before. QuickTime 6 also includes AAC, the standard MPEG-4 audio format. AAC is the next generation professional-quality audio format that delivers superior sound quality with reduced file sizes. The Company also offers several other QuickTime products, including QuickTime Pro, a suite of software tools that allows creation and editing of Internet-ready audio and video files and allows a user to add special effects and other features to QuickTime movies; QuickTime Streaming Server which facilitates the broadcasting of streaming digital video; and QuickTime Broadcaster that allows users to quickly and easily produce professional-quality live events for online delivery. 11 .Mac The Company's .Mac offering is a suite of Internet services that for an annual fee provides Macintosh users with powerful Internet tools. .Mac features email service with IMAP, POP or web-based access and 125MB of storage, iDisk Internet storage capacity of an additional 125MB, and hosting for personalized homepages and shared digital photo albums. Also included with .Mac is McAfee's Virex anti-virus software and Backup, a personal back-up solution allowing users to archive data to their Internet storage, CD, or DVD. Internet Software, Integration, and Services Apple's Internet strategy is focused on delivering seamless integration with and access to the Internet throughout the Company's product lines. The Company's Internet products Safari Safari, the Company's Mac OS X compatible web browser, is capable of loading web pages rapidly. Safari uses the advanced interface technologies underlying Quicktime® QuickTime, The 11 .Mac The These excerpts taken from the AAPL 10-K filed Dec 19, 2003. Internet Software, Integration, and Services Apple's Internet strategy is focused on delivering seamless integration with and access to the Internet throughout the Company's product lines. The Company's Internet products and technologies adhere to many industry standards in order to provide an optimized user experience through interoperability. An easy Internet Setup Assistant is included with the Mac OS. iTunes Music Store In April 2003, the Company launched the iTunes Music Store in the United States, an online music store that allows Macintosh customers to find, purchase, and download music for 99 cents per song or, in most cases, $9.99 per album. The iTunes Music Store is fully integrated with a one-click download directly into the latest version of the iTunes software, allowing customers to purchase, download, organize, share, and transfer their digital music to an iPod using a single software application. Requiring no subscription fee, the iTunes Music Store with iTunes software offers customers a broad range of personal rights to the songs purchased, including playing songs on up to three computers, burning songs onto an unlimited number of CDs for personal use, playing songs on an unlimited number of iPods, and using songs in certain applications such as iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD. Users can easily search the contents of the entire music 8 store to locate songs by title, artist, or album, or browse the entire contents of the music store by genre and artist. Users can also listen to a free 30-second preview of any song in the store. The second generation of the iTunes Music Store for both Macintosh and Windows users became available in October 2003. New features of the music store include online gift certificates that can be sent to family and friends via e-mail, an "allowance" feature that enables users to automatically deposit funds into an iTunes Music Store account every month, and the availability of audio books for purchase directly from the iTunes Music Store. The Company is exploring ways to enhance awareness and promote use of the iTunes Music Store, including arrangements with America Online, Inc. (AOL) to integrate links to the iTunes Music Store into AOL's Music site and Pepsi-Cola North America to give away songs from the iTunes Music Store. Safari In June 2003, the Company introduced Safari 1.0, the Company's new Mac OS X compatible web browser that is capable of loading web pages rapidly. Safari uses the advanced interface technologies underlying Mac OS X and includes built-in Google search; SnapBack to instantly return to search results; a new way to name, organize and present bookmarks; tabbed browsing; and automatic "pop-up" ad blocking. The Company also released a software development kit that allows developers to embed the Safari HTML rendering engine directly into their applications. Quicktime® QuickTime, the Company's multimedia software for Macintosh and Windows platforms, features streaming of live and stored video and audio over the Internet and playback of high-quality audio and video on computers. The current version of QuickTime, QuickTime 6, features support for the open-standard MPEG 4 format. QuickTime 6 includes the new Instant-On Streaming feature that eliminates buffer delays and provides users with the ability to quickly and easily scrub through streaming media content to locate and instantly view specific sections. In addition, QuickTime 6 running on Mac OS X now supports JPEG 2000, the next generation JPEG standard that allows users to capture still images in a higher quality and smaller file size than ever before. QuickTime 6 also includes AAC, the standard MPEG-4 audio format. AAC is the next generation professional-quality audio format that delivers superior sound quality with reduced file sizes. The Company also offers several other QuickTime products, including QuickTime Pro, a suite of software tools that allows creation and editing of Internet-ready audio and video files and allows a user to add special effects and other features to QuickTime movies; QuickTime Streaming Server which facilitates the broadcasting of streaming digital video; and QuickTime Broadcaster that allows users to quickly and easily produce professional-quality live events for online delivery. .Mac The Company's .Mac offering is a suite of Internet services that for an annual fee provides Macintosh users with powerful Internet tools. .Mac features email service with IMAP, POP or web-based access, 100MB of iDisk Internet storage, and hosting for personalized homepages and shared digital photo albums. Also included with .Mac is McAfee's Virex anti-virus software and Backup, a personal back-up solution allowing users to archive data to their Internet storage, CD, or DVD. Internet Software, Integration, and Services Apple's Internet strategy is focused on delivering seamless integration with and access to the Internet throughout the Company's product lines. The Company's Internet products iTunes Music Store In April 2003, the Company launched the iTunes Music Store in the United States, an online music store that allows Macintosh customers to find, purchase, and download 8 store The Safari In June 2003, the Company introduced Safari 1.0, the Company's new Mac OS X compatible web browser that is capable of loading web pages rapidly. Safari uses the advanced Quicktime® QuickTime, The .Mac The These excerpts taken from the AAPL 10-K filed Dec 19, 2002. Internet Software, Integration, and Services Apple's Internet strategy is focused on delivering seamless integration with and access to the Internet throughout the Company's product lines. The Company's Internet products and technologies adhere to many industry standards in order to provide an optimized user experience through interoperability. An easy Internet Setup Assistant is included with the Mac OS. QuickTime®, the Company's multimedia software for Macintosh and Windows platforms, features streaming of live and stored video and audio over the Internet and playback of high-quality audio and video on computers. QuickTime Player is an easy-to-use application for playing, interacting with or viewing video, audio, QuickTime VR 3D images, or graphics files. More than 125 million copies of QuickTime Player were downloaded via the Internet during the last year. Tens of thousands of software applications and content CDs feature QuickTime, and more than 150 models of digital cameras from most major brands use QuickTime to capture and display their images. The current version of QuickTime, QuickTime 6, was released in July of 2002 and features support for the open-standard MPEG 4 format. QuickTime 6 includes the new Instant-On Streaming feature that eliminates buffer delays and provides users with the ability to quickly and easily scrub through streaming media content to locate and instantly view specific sections. In addition, QuickTime 6 running on Mac OS X now supports JPEG 2000, the next generation JPEG standard that allows users to capture still images in a higher quality and smaller file size than ever before. QuickTime 6 also includes Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), the standard MPEG-4 audio format. AAC is the next generation professional-quality audio format that delivers superior sound quality with reduced file sizes. QuickTime Pro is a suite of software that allows creation and editing of Internet-ready audio and video files and allows a user to add special effects and other features to QuickTime movies. 7 QuickTime Streaming Server software is the underlying server technology that powers QuickTime's ability to stream live and stored video and audio over the Internet. QuickTime Streaming Server is based on an open sourced, standards-based Real-Time Transport Protocol/Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTP/RTSP) engine. The current version, QuickTime Streaming Server 4, extends support for standards by adding support for both MPEG 4 and MP3. While QuickTime Streaming Server is designed for Mac OS X Server, it is also available as an open source server. Because QuickTime Streaming Server is an open source technology it can be ported to other platforms, and versions are available for Linux, Solaris and Windows NT/2000. QuickTime Broadcaster is the Company's live encoding software that allows users to quickly and easily produce professional-quality live events for online delivery. The combination of QuickTime Broadcaster, QuickTime Streaming Server 4 and QuickTime 6 provides the industry's first end-to-end MPEG-4-based Internet broadcasting system, which allows users to reach not only the large and growing base of installed QuickTime Players, but also any ISO-compliant MPEG-4 player. WebObjects®, the Company's Java-based application server for web publishing and enterprise application development, offers a complete solution for rapid development and deployment of web applications. WebObjects features sophisticated graphical development tools, comprehensive prebuilt and reusable components, integration with numerous data sources, and robust deployment tools. Introduced with Mac OS X Jaguar, Sherlock® 3 is the Company's advanced Internet search engine. Sherlock 3 functions for users as an Internet service tool that retrieves and displays a personalized view of some of the most practical and useful information available on the Internet, such as stock news, general headlines, movie previews, locations and show times, yellow pages listings, eBay auction activity and more. Sherlock displays each of these 'channels' in its own arrangement of columns and panes. When used for Internet searches, Sherlock utilizes multiple search engines to provide search results ranked by relevance, name, or web site. In July 2002, the Company launched .Mac, a new suite of Internet services that for an annual fee provides Macintosh users with powerful Internet tools. .Mac features email service with IMAP, POP or web-based access, 100MB of Internet storage, and hosting for personalized homepages and shared digital photo albums. Also included with .Mac is McAfee's Virex anti-virus software and Backup, a personal back-up solution that allows users to archive data to their Internet storage, CD, or DVD. Internet Software, Integration, and Services Apple's Internet strategy is focused on delivering seamless integration with and access to the Internet throughout the Company's product lines. The Company's Internet products QuickTime®, The QuickTime 7
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