1990: Windows 3.0 is released; the NeXTstation is released.
The Mac IIfx, Classic, LC and IIsi are introduced.
1991: IBM, Motorola and Apple form an alliance, aimed at challenging the Wintel platform. The new platform is based on IBM's POWER1 CPU, with a server variant (POWER1) and a desktop variant (PowerPC). While IBM was supposed to develope and Motorola produce the new CPU, Apple was to port the MacOS to run on the new platform.
Mac Classic II, PowerBook 100, PowerBook 140, PowerBook 170, Quadra 700 and Quadra 900 are introduced.
Pixar Animation Studios and Disney agree to form a filmmaking partnership under which Pixar makes the movies and Disney distributes them. Pixar and Disney split production costs and profits.
October 9th, 1991: Apple Computer, Inc. pays Apple Corps $26.5 million. The lawsuit is settled.
1992: NeXTstep 3.0 is announced; Microsoft releases Windows 3.1
February 1993: Steve Jobs has to lay off half of the NeXT employees. He drops the hardware section of NeXT and announces that in future the NeXT Computer, Inc. is going to focus on the development of operating systems.
April 1993: The first PowerPC (601) processor is released by Motorola running at 50 MHz, 66 MHz and 80 MHz.
The last NeXT co-founder resigns leaving Steve Jobs alone as head of NeXT Computer, Inc. (the name was changed from NeXT, Inc. to NeXT Computer, Inc.)
June 1993: Michael Spindler replaces Sculley as CEO. Sculley remains chairman of Apple.
August 2nd, 1993: Apple releases the first PDA (Newton MessagePad). Although highly anticipated by the press, the Newton's handwriting recognition fails to deliver the announced reliabilty, breaking the neck of the Newton PDA project already at its introduction.
Apple drops the Newton devision only four years after the introduction of the first Newton MessagePad.
August 24th, 1993: The court decides that Windows 2.0.3 was covered by the 1985 deal between Apple and Microsoft.
October 15th, 1993: Sculley resigns from Apple and becomes chairman and CEO of Spectrum.
March 14th, 1994: Apple releases its first Power Macintosh dekstop computers (6100, 7100 and 8100).
June 1994: System 7.5 released.
Summer 1994: Apple starts licensing the MacOS.
December 13th, 1994: Apple announces Pippin, a home multimedia system for gaming, learning and surfing the internet.
Winter 1994: The new PowerPC 603 and 604 CPUs are shipped by IBM and Motorola.
February 1995: The PowerPC 603e is announced.
May 1995: Disney releases Pixar's first movie 'Toy Story'
April 1st, 1996: Apple's 20th Anniversary. The Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh is announced.
October 1996: System 7.5.5 released.
December 1996: Apple Computer Inc. takes over NeXT Computer, Inc. for $430 million.
January 24th, 1997: MacOS 7.6 introduced.
January 26th, 1997: Jobs returns to Apple due to the NeXT deal. At MacWorldExpo the new MacOS strategies are announced (MacOS 8, Rhapsody).
March 1997: Bandai releases Pippin Atmark in Japan.
April 1997: Motorola introduces the PowerPC 603e with 300 MHz.
June 1997: Gil Amelio announces a $740 million loss in the second quarter.
July 1st, 1997: The Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh is released.
July 1997: Gil Amelio resigns from his post as president and CEO of Apple.
July 22nd, 1997: MacOS 8 is released.
August 6th, 1997: Steve Jobs, who is now the "de facto" head of Apple, announces an alliance between Apple and Microsoft. Microsoft invests $150 million in Apple stocks. In return, Apple includes Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to every copy of the MacOS.
September 1997: The PowerPC 750 (G3) processor is introduced by Motorola.
Apple starts buying back all licenses from Mac-clone manufacturers.
September 16th, 1997: Steve Jobs becomes iCEO (interims) of Apple.
November 1997: Bandai releases Pippin @World in the US selling for US$ 600.
November 10th, 1997: The Power Macintosh G3 and The Apple Store are introduced at "Apple Event". Both become an instant success.
January 7th, 1998: Apple officially returns to profitability with Steve Jobs' announcement of $47 million profit in the first quarter.
February 4th, 1998: IBM introduces its prototype 1.1 GHz G3 processor.
February 27th, 1998: The Newton project is discontinued. It is stopped due to the high losses of the Newton project (Apple spent over $500 million since the development of the first Newton started) and the thinning out of Apple's product line. Apple drops all not profitable devisions (amongst others printers and accessories).
May 1998: The iMac and the PowerBook G3 are announced.
July 1998: Apple announces its third profitable quarter ($101 million) in a row.
July 30th, 1998: The PowerPC G3 333 MHz, 366 MHz and 400 MHz are introduced by Motorola.
August 1998: The iMac is pre-ordered over 150,000 times.
August 15th, 1998: The iMac is released and becomes the fastest selling PC in history.
October 15th, 1998: MacOS 8.5 is released.
January 5th, 1999: The Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White) and an upgraded iMac (266 MHz, 5 different colors) are released at the MacWorldExpo in San Francisco.
MacOS X Server is introduced but it takes Apple until March to finally ship it.April 14th, 1999: The third version of the iMac (Revision D) is released, now running at 333 MHz.
June 1999: Apple releases a new PowerBook G3. The new model is smaller and lighter than its predecessor. The 300 MHz model of the Power Macintosh G3 is discontinued. A 450 MHz configurations is released.
So are QuickTime 4 and MacOS 8.6.
Apple also releases Final Cut Pro, a professional video editing software. It's video capturing is optimized for the use with the new FireWire port on the PowerMacs.
July 21st, 1999: Apple introduces the iBook at the MacWorldExpo in New York.
August 31st, 1999: The iBook is pre-ordered over 140,000 times. Steve Jobs introduces the SuperComputer Power Macintosh G4 at Seybold conference in San Francisco. The G4 processor with 500 MHz is able to perform over 1 billion floatcomma calculations per second. Therefore it is classified as a weapon by the US government. The G4 processor allows PowerMac multiprocessor configurations. The PowerMac G4 is running at 400, 450 and 500 MHz and is up to three times faster than a Pentium III-PC with 600 MHz.
September 30th, 1999: With the launch of 'Toy Story 2' Pixar can strengthen its position as the number one computer animation studio for full-length motion pictures in the world. Overall 'Toy Story', 'Toy Story 2' and 'A Bug's Life' generated approx. $1.2 billion in worldwide box office.
October 5th, 1999: The iMac is facelifted and now running at 350 MHz and 400 MHz and shipping with DVD-ROM drive in some configurations. The iMac DV and DV Special Edition ship with a consumer version of Final Cut Pro called iMovie.
November 5th, 1999: MacOS 9 is released. It comes with several new features among other things Sherlock 2.
by. TAM
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