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Siri
Siri ( ) is a virtual assistant and chatbot purchased, developed, and popularized by Apple, which is included in the iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, macOS, Apple TV, audioOS, and visionOS operating systems. It uses voice queries, gesture based control, focus-tracking and a natural-language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of Internet services. With continued use, it adapts to users' individual language usages, searches, and preferences, returning individualized results.
NeXT
thumb|In the early 1990s, NeXT sold this complete NeXTstation. NeXT, Inc. (later NeXT Computer, Inc. and NeXT Software, Inc.) was an American technology company headquartered in Redwood City, California, which specialized in computer workstations for higher education and business markets, and later developed the first dynamic web page software. It was founded in 1985 by Steve Jobs, the Apple Computer co-founder who had been removed from Apple that year. NeXT debuted with the NeXT Computer in 1988, and released the NeXTcube and smaller NeXTstation in 1990. The series had relatively limited sale
Shazam
music application
Beats Electronics
American audio products manufacturer
Final Cut Pro
Non-linear video editing software developed by Apple, Inc.
Common UNIX Printing System
CUPS (formerly an acronym for Common UNIX Printing System) is a modular printing system for Unix-like computer operating systems which allows a computer to act as a print server. A computer running CUPS is a host that can accept print jobs from client computers, process them, and send them to the appropriate printer.
BIS Records
Swedish record label (1973-)
Cover Flow
graphical user interface element
list of mergers and acquisitions by Apple
Wikimedia list article
Shortcuts
iOS scripting application
TestFlight
TestFlight is an online service for over-the-air installation and testing of mobile applications, currently owned by Apple Inc. and only offered to developers within the iOS Developer Program. Developers sign up with the service to distribute applications to internal or external beta testers, who can subsequently send feedback about the application to developers. The TestFlight SDK additionally allows developers to receive remote logs, crash reports and tester feedback.
P.A. Semi
company
Emagic
Emagic GmbH was a music software and hardware company founded in Rellingen, Germany in 1992 by Gerhard Lengeling and Chris Adam, joined later by Sven Junge. The company was best known for its digital audio workstation software, Logic. The company was acquired by Apple Computer, Inc. on July 1, 2002, and its Windows-based product offerings were discontinued on September 30. Apple eventually phased out Emagic branding, releasing Logic Pro 7 under the Apple brand on September 29, 2004. Apple continues to develop and offer Logic Pro as their flagship DAW for Mac.
Beddit
Beddit Oy (formerly Finsor Oy) is a Finnish technology company that sells sleep tracking devices and a sleep tracking application to help monitor sleep. The company was founded in October 2006 and released their first sleep tracker in November 2013. In May 2017, Beddit was acquired by Apple Inc.
FoundationDB
FoundationDB is a free and open-source multi-model distributed NoSQL database owned by Apple Inc. with a shared-nothing architecture. The product was designed around a "core" database, with additional features supplied in "layers." The core database exposes an ordered key–value store with transactions. The transactions are able to read or write multiple keys stored on any machine in the cluster while fully supporting ACID properties. Transactions are used to implement a variety of data models via layers.