Apple Inc. getting serious – Sirius XM Skydock

Apple + Sirius XM Radio = Skydock

Apple getting serious – Sirius XM Radio Skydock
Doing research on Apple, Inc. was really interesting, as I learned so much about the changes that took place since the birth of the company on April 1st, 1976 in Steve Jobs family garage in Cupertino, California. Steve Wozniak hand built the Apple 1 computer with his engineering skills and Steve Jobs used his knowledge and charisma to market the computer along with helping Ronald Wayne design the first company logo. This first logo was Isaac Newton under an Apple tree designed mostly by Ronald Wayne. How would you like to be Ronald Wayne? He was the third partner who sold out his 1/3 share of the company for $800. He and his Family must be still in shock over what they lost. Ouch! The Apple logo changed in late 1976 to a Rainbow bitten Apple and remained until it changes for the last time 1998. The 3rd design was a monochrome theme logo that is still maintained today as Apple is a proven leader in innovation and technology and the branding of the Apple company name in 2009.
Apple was incorporated January 3rd, 1977 without Wayne. Jobs brought in multi-millionaire Mike Markkula to help fund the incorporation of Apple. Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the late 1970’s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Listed below is a sequence of events so that you can get a good view of the never ending changes and innovations that have taken place with Apple, Inc. in the early years leading up to where they have come today in 2009. In its 33 years of history they had good and bad leadership, but rest assured they are in good hands again since the day Steve Jobs came back to the company just over 12 years ago. The company is on the cutting edge of technology and is leading the way to future technology and expanding its business to just about the entire world. Steve Jobs had the vision years ago to take the computers to Europe and now the Apple Iphone and the Ipod touch is changing the world once again with his ideas and visions. The Ipods, Itunes, Iphones and the Apps store and the Sirius XM Skydock is pure Genius. Apple is helping to connect the world. Key dates listed below.
1976: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne founded Apple Computer.
1977: on January 3rd it becomes Apple Computers, Inc.
1980: Apple converts to public ownership.
1982: Apple becomes the first personal computer company to reach $1 billion in annual sales.
1984: The Apple Macintosh is born with the $1.5 million Super Bowl ad.
1985: John Sculley assumes the helm after a management shakeup that causes the departure of Steve Jobs and several other Apple executives.
1991: PowerBook line of notebook computers is released.
1994: Power Macintosh line is released.
1996: Acquisition of NeXT brings Steve Jobs back to Apple as a special advisor.
1997: Steve Jobs is named interim chief executive officer.
1998: The all-in-one iMac is released.
2000: Jobs, now firmly in command as CEO, oversees a leaner, more tightly focused Apple and a profitable company again.
2001: Apple introduces first retail Store and the Ipod
2003: Apple begins to sell songs in MP3 format over the internet.
2003: Apple Itunes store is introduced.
2005: Intel partnership with their chips. Steve Jobs makes the announcement.
2006: Apple begins producing Intel based Mac computers.
2007: January 9th, the company name is changed to “Apple Inc.”
2007: May of 2007 Apple sells music on Itunes store without DRM to 3rd parties
2007: June 29th, 2007 Apple Iphone 2.0 is sold in U.S
2008: Apple I-phone 3G is created on July 11th in the United States and goes worldwide. Apple launches the App Store to sell third party Applications for the Ipod Touch and the Iphone 3G.
2009: January 14th, 2009 Steve Jobs announces a 6 month leave of absence to attend to personal health issues. Phil Schiller will take his place.
2009: June 19th the Iphone 3GS come out.
2009: Steve Jobs returns back to work. Apple protected his medical privacy.
2009: Apple and the Chinese Government negotiate a deal for a few months and on Oct 30th, the iphone 3GS is allowed to be sold legally in China.
2009: November 10th, 2009 Apple works with Sirius XM Radio as Sirius XM creates the Skydock that plugs into the car and turns the Apple Iphone and Ipod Touch into a Sirius XM Satellite radio with a Sirius XM application downloaded to the Iphone and Ipod Touch. Apple is now expanding into the cars with this deal with Sirius XM Radio Inc.
2009: On November 28th, 2009 the Iphone begins to sell in South Korea. The world is going crazy for the Apple applications that can be downloaded onto these Iphones and Ipod touches. It is a phenomenon that is taking place to access the information instantly via your cars and cell-phones and is going global.
Because of Jobs’s visions, people skills and leadership, Apple left the 1990s as a pared-down version of its former self, but, importantly, a profitable company once again. By the decade’s end, ‘interim’ was dropped from Jobs’s corporate title, signaling Jobs’s return on a permanent basis and fueling optimism that Apple could look forward to a decade of vibrant and consistent growth. The future was bright and the workers and their stock option plans would continue to grow each year up to its most recent price of $196.98 per share on December 14th, 2009.
Since his return, Apple has changed the music world with the inventions of the Ipod along with the Itunes store. The original creator of music from what I could remember before the Ipods, was Napster. I’m not quite sure what ever happened to Napster, but I do remember some legal issues they had. Apple stepped in and dominated the music world generating billions of dollars for the company and continues to do so today. The Itunes store has created a cash puppy as people pay up to .99 cents to download their own personal favorite songs to be stored on their Ipods and Iphones.
There is currently a news media “Revolution”. Once again it is Apple that is leading the way to let technology simplify people’s lives. The creation of the Apple I-phone 3G in July 2008 plus the merger of Sirius + XM Radio ( July 2008 ) along with the use of the Apple Iphones to download social media networks application for Twitter and facebook, has brought the world that much closer. Today, people can access information instantly via their Iphones along with getting news from their cars via Sirius XM Radio.
On November 10th, Sirius XM Radio’s Skydock will turn in all those millions of sold Ipod Touches and Iphones into Sirius XM Radio receivers. The Skydock will duplicate the process for Apple and turn the Sirius XM Skydock into an ATM machine for Apple as they will get revenue for each Itunes download that comes from the Sirius XM Skydock. Apple and Sirius both will work together to go globally, so that the world will be able to access the 100,000 Apple applications and growing. The Iphone and Itouch provides info to its customers. This partnership will change how people access Live information from sports, TV shows, business and political news. It will be the end to Rupert Murdoch and his newspapers. We are only at Iphone 3GS, next up is 4G and 5G. China here we come.

Apple is the one of a kind Revolutionary company of all time. They changed personal computers, the music world and now they are part of a “ news media Revolution “ that will change the world forever and bring the news to the people instantly 24/7 via their cutting edge technology. Apple turned the cell phone industry into a wireless walking computer. The Apple Iphone of the future will be the one gadget that does it all. The internet, GPS, camera, video, social media, cell phone, Ipod for music and you will access live news and sports instantly via the Sirius XM Skydock. This one single gadget will do everything for you.

Richard Keane, narrator Stock Shock 12/14/09