Six Apple Computer Media releases

Six Apple Computer Media releases

Please find to follow recent announcements made by Apple.

* Apple Launches iTunes for Windows
* Apple Updates iPod
* Apple and America Online Announce Online Music Alliance (US only)
* Apple and Pepsi to Give Away 100 Million Free Songs (US only)
* Apple Announces Mac OS X "Panther"
* Apple Announces Mac OS X Server "Panther"

Apple Launches iTunes for Windows

Second Generation Online Music Store Available Today for Mac & Windows Users

SAN FRANCISCO‹October 16, 2003‹Apple® today launched the second generation of its revolutionary iTunes® Music Store for both Mac® and Windows users. The new iTunes Music Store offers Windows users the same online music store that Mac users love (available in the US only) ‹with the same music catalogue, the same personal use rights and the same 99 cents-per-song pricing. Since its launch six months ago, music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 13 million songs from the iTunes Music Store, making it the number one download music service in the world. With music from all five major music companies and over 200 independent music labels, the iTunes Music Store catalogue is growing every day and will offer more than 400,000 songs by the end of October.

"The iTunes Music Store has revolutionised the way people legally buy music online, and now it's available to tens of millions more music lovers with iTunes for Windows," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "While our competitors haven't even come close to matching our first generation, we're already releasing the second generation of the iTunes Music Store for Mac and Windows."

Apple offers the unbeatable combination of the award-winning iTunes digital jukebox software, the pioneering iTunes Music Store and the market-leading iPod� digital music player, providing music lovers with a seamless experience for buying, managing and listening to their digital music collections anywhere. Windows iPod users can now use their iPod with the award-winning iTunes digital jukebox software and enjoy the best digital music experience on any platform. iTunes for Windows includes all the same great features that made it the best digital jukebox software for the Mac‹a free download with no hidden charges for extra features, MP3 and pristine quality AAC encoding from audio CDs, Smart Playlists, over 250 free Internet radio stations, and the ability to burn custom playlists to CDs and MP3 CDs, burn content to DVDs to back-up an entire music collection and share music between computers via Rendezvous� over any network, cross-platform.

Apple today also announced an online music alliance with America Online to provide instant, one-click registration to the iTunes Music Store for AOL's more than 25 million U.S. members starting later this quarter. America Online will integrate links to iTunes artists, albums and songs throughout its leading music site, AOL Music, which will give AOL members the option to link directly to the specific iTunes Music Store page to preview and buy music as they browse and read music news and reviews. Apple will offer selections of AOL's popular, original content such as Sessions@AOL and BroadBAND Rocks! through the iTunes Music Store.

The new iTunes Music Store features exclusive tracks from more than 60 artists, including new exclusive tracks announced today from Black Eyed Peas, Mary J. Blige, Coldplay, The Eagles, The Grateful Dead, Ben Harper, Yo-Yo Ma, Sarah McLachlan, R.E.M., The Rolling Stones, Sting and Luther Vandross. The iTunes Music Store also debuted today a new Celebrity Playlist feature with personal playlists created by several popular featured artists including Michelle Branch, Dave Brubeck, Billy Corgan, Counting Crows, Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott, Ben Folds, Herbie Hancock, Jack Johnson, Kenna, Wynton Marsalis, Moby, Mark Ronson, Seal, Sting and Michael Stipe. In addition, the new iTunes Music Store features album reviews, artist biographies and essentials lists of must-have albums for artists.

The new iTunes Music Store offers another industry first‹Apple's innovative and patent-pending online "Allowance" feature which allows parents to automatically deposit funds into their kids' iTunes Music Store account every month. This is the first time that parents can provide an alternative to illegal file sharing to their children. The new iTunes Music Store also offers online gift certificates that can be sent to friends and family via e-mail to give the gift of music to anyone.

In another pioneering move, the new iTunes Music Store now offers more than 5,000 audiobooks which can be purchased with one click and listened to on any Mac or Windows computer as well as on iPods. iTunes is the only digital jukebox that allows users to seamlessly purchase audiobooks in the same easy way that they purchase music. iTunes audiobooks are encoded with superior audio quality and feature New York Times bestsellers and popular public radio programs from NPR and PRI. In addition, the iTunes Music Store offers exclusive content not found digitally anywhere else, including "Whipping Mek," an original story by Brian Herbert and bestselling novelist Kevin J. Anderson that bridges the Legends of Dune trilogy novels "The Butlerian Jihad" and "The Machine Crusade."

The iTunes Music Store continues to offer Apple's legendary ease of use, making it the easiest way to discover, purchase and download music online for both Mac and Windows. Users can easily search the entire music store to instantly locate any song by title, artist or album, or browse the entire collection of songs by genre, artist and album. Users can listen to free 30-second previews of any song in the store, then purchase and download their favorite songs or complete albums in pristine digital quality. Songs can be burned at no extra cost onto an unlimited number of CDs for personal use, played on up to any combination of three Mac or Windows computers, and listened to on an unlimited number of iPods.

Pricing & Availability

iTunes for Mac and Windows includes the iTunes Music Store (available in the US only) and is available as a free download immediately from http://www.apple.co.nz/itunes/default.html. Purchase and download of songs from the iTunes Music Store for Mac or Windows requires a valid credit card with a U.S. billing address. The iTunes Music Store requires a Mac equipped with iTunes 4.1 and Mac OS® X version 10.1.5 or later or a PC equipped with iTunes 4.1 and Windows XP or Windows 2000. Further information about Apple's digital music products can be found at www.apple.co.nz/iPod/default.html and www.apple.co.nz/itunes/default.html.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Apple is committed to bringing the best personal computing experience to students, educators and creative professionals and consumers around the world through its innovative hardware, software and Internet offerings.

NOTE TO EDITORS: For additional information visit Apple's PR website (www.apple.com/pr/) .

Apple Updates iPod

Adds Support for New Voice Recording & Photo Storage Accessories for Dockable iPods

SAN FRANCISCO‹October 16, 2003‹Apple® today announced a free software update for iPod�, the world's most popular portable digital music player. The iPod software update adds support for new Belkin voice recording and photo storage accessories for dockable iPods, allowing users to record hundreds of hours of audio and store thousands of digital photos on their iPod. Available for both Mac® and Windows, the iPod software update also includes faster browsing and accessing of large music libraries, the ability to sync On-The-Go playlists back to iTunes® and a new Music Quiz game which tests a player's knowledge of their own iTunes music library.

"Apple's latest iPods have been a huge hit, becoming the most successful digital music players ever. With these new added features there are even more great reasons to get one," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "We have worked together with Belkin to provide a simple and elegant solution to iPod users' two most requested features, digital voice recording and photo storage."

With the new voice recording features, iPod users can use a Belkin Voice Recorder to record and instantly review over 600 hours of lectures, interviews or notes on a 40GB iPod. Once the iPod is connected to a Mac or Windows PC, the voice notes are automatically synced with the computer just like songs and playlists are synced in the iTunes library. These audio recordings are stored in WAV file format and can be easily edited or even sent to others via email. The Belkin Voice Recorder for iPod is the first third-party voice recording accessory to take advantage of these new capabilities in iPod. Belkin's ultra-compact Voice Recorder for iPod is equipped with a high-quality, omnidirectional microphone and 16mm speaker, works with all dockable iPods through the headphone connector and indicates recording status through iPod's LCD screen.

iPod's new photo storage feature allows users to use a Belkin Media Reader to import, store and backup over 20,000 digital photos from a 3 megapixel camera onto a 40GB iPod and take them anywhere. This frees up valuable camera and memory card storage space so users can continue to take pictures without the hassle and expense of buying and carrying multiple memory cards. Once the iPod is connected to a Mac or Windows PC, the digital photos are easily transferred to a user's computer and photo editing software. With Mac OS® X, iPhoto� will automatically recognise the iPod as a media storage device and prompt users to transfer their photos into the iPhoto library‹just as if it were a camera, allowing users to erase the photos after transfer if desired. The ideal tool for professional photographers and people on vacation, Belkin's new Media Reader for iPod is the first third party iPod photo storage accessory. The Belkin Media Reader for iPod connects easily though iPod's dock connector and supports the five most common memory card formats‹CompactFlash, SmartMedia, Memory Stick, SD and MMC.

Pricing & Availability

The new iPod software update, Version 2.1, is available today as a free download from www.apple.co.nz/iPod/default.html . iPods for Mac and Windows PCs are available for a suggested retail price of $579+GST for the 10GB iPod, $759+GST for the 20GB iPod and $979+GST for the 40GB iPod through Apple Authorised Resellers. iPod requires a Mac with FireWire® port, Mac OS X version 10.1.5 or later (Mac OS X v10.2 or later recommended) or a Windows PC with FireWire or USB 2.0 port, or Windows-certified FireWire or USB 2.0 card, Windows 2000, or Windows XP Home or Professional.

The new Belkin iPod accessories are also available starting today at www.belkin.com and www.apple.com

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Apple is committed to bringing the best personal computing experience to students, educators and creative professionals and consumers around the world through its innovative hardware, software and Internet offerings.

NOTE TO EDITORS: For additional information visit Apple's PR website (www.apple.com/pr/) .

Apple and America Online Announce Online Music Alliance

25 Million AOL Members Will Have Instant, One-Click Access to the iTunes Music Store for Windows & Mac SAN FRANCISCO‹October 16, 2003‹Apple® and America Online, Inc., the world's leading interactive services company, today announced an alliance to provide instant, one-click registration to the iTunes® Music Store for AOL's more than 25 million U.S. members starting later this quarter. America Online will integrate links to iTunes artists, albums and songs throughout its leading music site, AOL Music, which will give members the option to link directly to the specific iTunes Music Store page to preview and buy music as they browse and read music news and reviews.

"Apple and AOL are making it easy for AOL's 25 million U.S. members to legally buy music online," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "With just one click, AOL members will be able to legally preview, purchase and download music from the iTunes Music Store's catalogue of more than 400,000 songs."

"Apple's iTunes Music Store is a runaway hit," said Jonathan Miller, chairman and CEO of America Online. "Today, Apple and AOL are uniting the number one music destination site, AOL Music, with the number one music download site, Apple's iTunes Music Store, to bring customers the most complete online digital music experience."

Apple's iTunes Music Store revolutionised the online music industry with its groundbreaking personal use rights and one-click download directly into iTunes, Apple's integrated digital jukebox software‹all for just 99 cents per song ($US). Since its launch six months ago, music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 13 million songs from the iTunes Music Store, making it the number one download music service. Apple today launched its second generation iTunes Music Store for both Mac® and Windows users. With music from all five major music companies and over 200 independent music labels, the iTunes Music Store catalogue is growing every day and will offer more than 400,000 songs by the end of October.

AOL Music reaches the largest audience of online music fans in the world, with more than 16 million monthly unique users, through a rich array of programming, products and services that make it easy to discover, experience, listen to and buy music online. Among the groundbreaking programs on AOL Music are advance previews of songs and videos before they are available anywhere else, live concerts and much more. AOL Music's offerings are available at the number one Internet music destination, the AOL Music Channel, and throughout the AOL and AOL for Broadband services and America Online's family of Web brands including Netscape, CompuServe, AIM, ICQ, Spinner, Winamp and SHOUTcast. Apple will offer selections of AOL's popular, original content such as Sessions@AOL and BroadBAND Rocks! through the iTunes Music Store.

America Online, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX). Based in Dulles, Virginia, America Online is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Apple is committed to bringing the best personal computing experience to students, educators and creative professionals and consumers around the world through its innovative hardware, software and Internet offerings.

NOTE TO EDITORS: For additional information visit Apple's PR website (www.apple.com/pr/) .

Apple and Pepsi to Give Away 100 Million Free Songs

SAN FRANCISCO‹October 16, 2003‹Apple® and Pepsi-Cola North America today announced a historic promotion to legally give away 100 million free songs to Mac® and Windows PC users from Apple's iTunes® Music Store (Available in the US only). Beginning February 1, 100 million winning codes will be randomly seeded in 20 ounce and 1 litre bottles of Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Sierra Mist, and the winning codes will be redeemable for a free song from the iTunes Music Store. Winners will simply go to Apple's iTunes Music Store ( www.iTunes.com ), enter the code found under the bottle cap and choose any 99 cent song from the online store's vast catalogue of over 400,000 songs. The Pepsi iTunes promotion will kick-off with a Super Bowl ad on February 1, 2004, and will run until March 31, 2004.

"iTunes has revolutionised the way we buy music," said Dawn Hudson, president of Pepsi-Cola North America. "iTunes provides music fans with a fast, reliable and easy way to get the music they want, when they want it. During the Pepsi iTunes promotion, they will be able to get more of their favourite music for free."

"This historic promotion to legally give away 100 million free songs will go down in history as igniting the legal download market," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Pepsi has marketed their products through music for generations, and this is going to be another one that is remembered for decades."

Apple's iTunes Music Store revolutionised the online music industry with its groundbreaking personal use rights and one-click download directly into iTunes, Apple's integrated digital jukebox software‹all for just 99 cents per song. Since its launch six months ago, music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 13 million songs from the iTunes Music Store, making it the number one download music service. Apple today launched its second generation iTunes Music Store for both Mac and Windows PC users. With music from all five major music companies and over 200 independent music labels, the iTunes Music Store is growing every day and will offer more than 400,000 songs.

The Pepsi iTunes promotion complements Pepsi's music initiatives. Pepsi has a long history of integrating music as a core platform in their marketing programs. From Michael Jackson and Madonna to Shakira and Beyoncé, Pepsi has featured the biggest recording artists and a diverse range of chart-topping music in marketing campaigns for decades. PEPSI SMASH, a one-hour wall-to-wall music television show that debuted last summer on the WB TV network and featured live musical performances, is one of Pepsi's ongoing music initiatives.

Purchase, N.Y.-based Pepsi-Cola North America (www.pepsi.com) is the $4 billion refreshment beverage unit of PepsiCo Inc. in the United States and Canada. Its U.S. brands include Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Pepsi ONE, Wild Cherry Pepsi, Pepsi Twist, Pepsi Blue, Pepsi Vanilla, Mountain Dew, Mountain Dew Code Red, Mountain Dew LiveWire, Sierra Mist, Mug, Slice, Aquafina, FruitWorks, Dole single-serve juices and SoBe. The company also makes and markets North America's best-selling ready-to-drink iced teas and coffees, respectively, via joint ventures with Lipton and Starbucks.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Apple is committed to bringing the best personal computing experience to students, educators and creative professionals and consumers around the world through its innovative hardware, software and Internet offerings.

NOTE TO EDITORS: For additional information visit Apple's PR website (www.apple.com/pr/) .

Apple Announces Mac OS X "Panther"

Shipping October 25 With More Than 150 New Features

Apple® have announced that Mac OS® X version 10.3 "Panther," the next major release of the world's most advanced operating system, will be available on Saturday, October 25, (NZ time). Panther delivers more than 150 breakthrough new features including a completely new Finder� that provides one-click access to a user's favourite files and folders; Exposé, a revolutionary new way to instantly see all open windows at once; and iChat AV, a complete desktop video conferencing solution for business, education and consumers.

"Panther sets the new gold standard for operating systems," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "With more than 150 new features, we're delivering innovations today that will not be seen in any other operating system for years to come."

Panther features a completely redesigned Finder with lightning-fast file searching that is up to six times faster than Mac OS X version 10.2. The new Finder provides one-click access by putting a user's favourite folders, storage, servers and iDisk in one convenient location. The new Finder also offers dynamic browsing of the network for Mac®, Windows and UNIX file servers.

Panther also introduces Exposé, a revolutionary new way to instantly view all open windows and choose any of them to be on top. Exposé visually unshuffles overlapping windows on the desktop into an organised thumbnail view so a user can instantly locate and switch to any open window or get to any file on the desktop. Powered by the Mac OS X Quartz� graphic engine, Exposé is a breakthrough in working with multiple files, applications and projects.

Panther extends instant messaging to the next level with iChat AV, the world's easiest to use desktop video conferencing solution, offering full-screen, full-motion video over broadband, crystal-clear audio and a familiar easy-to-use interface. iChat makes natural conversations over the Internet immediate and effortless, and has been enjoyed by over half a million beta users since its introduction in June.

Other new features in Panther include: · Fast User Switching to elegantly switch between active users without having to quit applications or log out; · FileVault, which uses the latest security standards and 128-bit encryption technology to ensure that data in the home directory is kept secure and private at all times; · Font Book, a new application that provides system-level font management with double-click font preview, one-click installation and an intuitive interface for managing font collections, and activating or deactivating fonts; · the world's fastest PDF reader in a significantly improved Preview application, with super-fast text searching that builds an instant index of search results in a PDF, text selection and copying, URL support and support for the PDF 1.4 format; · a fully integrated iDisk that increases productivity by automatically syncing a user's offline work to their .Mac Internet server storage once they're online again, so users can work locally on files with hard drive speeds and have them synced automatically back to their iDisk later; · enhanced Mail, with advanced spam filtering technology and the ability to organise mail into convenient threads to make it easy to read, file or delete related emails; · a new Address Book that includes powerful new features for printing labels and easily notifying contacts when a user's personal information changes; · integrated faxing synced with the Address Book so sending and receiving faxes is as easy as printing, and includes support for adding cover pages; · enhanced Windows compatibility that ensures files, printers and network services can easily be shared with Windows users. Support for Microsoft Exchange is built into Mail and Address Book to make it easy to access Exchange email and sync address book entries; · advancements to the open-standard UNIX-based foundation, including support for the latest open source libraries, commands and technologies, X11 applications, IPv6, Kerberos integration and a greatly improved NFS file system; · Xcode�, the fastest way to create Mac OS X applications. Xcode combines an easy-to-use interface with proven developer tools such as GCC 3.3 to make it easy for developers to take advantage of the latest technologies from Apple; and · the latest versions of iSync, iCal�, iPhoto�, iMovie®, iTunes® and Apple's new default web browser, Safari�. Pricing & Availability

Mac OS X version 10.3 "Panther" will be available on October 25 (NZ time) through Apple Authorised Resellers for a suggested retail price of $249+GST for a single user license.. The Mac OS X Panther Family Pack is a single-residence, five-user license that will be available for a suggested retail price of $379+GST. Volume and maintenance pricing is available from Apple Authorised Resellers. The standard Mac OS Up-To-Date upgrade package is available to all customers who purchase a new Mac system on or after October 8; all customers who purchased a Power Mac® G5 regardless of purchase date that do not have Panther included; and customers who purchase the Mac OS X version 10.2 retail product on or after October 8 for a shipping and handling fee of $40 include GST

Panther requires a minimum of 128MB of memory and is designed to run on the following Apple products with built-in USB support: iMac,® iBook®, Power Macintosh® G3, Power Mac G4, Power Mac G4 Cube, Power Mac G5, PowerBook G3, PowerBook G4

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Apple is committed to bringing the best personal computing experience to students, educators and creative professionals and consumers around the world through its innovative hardware, software and Internet offerings.

NOTE TO EDITORS: For additional information visit Apple's PR website (www.apple.com/pr/) .

Apple Announces Mac OS X Server "Panther"

Shipping October 25 With More Than 150 New Features Apple® have announced that Mac OS® X Server version 10.3 "Panther," the most advanced release of Apple's award-winning UNIX-based server operating system ever with over 150 new features, will ship at the same time as Panther on October 25 (NZ time). Panther Server integrates leading open source and open standards software with easy-to-use management tools that make it easy to deploy popular open source solutions for Mac®, Windows and Linux clients. New features include a revolutionary Server Admin tool that makes it easy for administrators to set up and manage the open source software built in to Mac OS X; Open Directory 2 for hosting scalable LDAP directory and Kerberos authentication services; Samba 3 for providing login and home directory support for Windows clients; and the JBoss application server for running powerful J2EE applications.

"With more than 150 new features, Panther Server is the biggest release of Mac OS X Server ever," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "Panther Server combines the most popular solutions from the open source world with breakthrough management tools to create the most powerful and easy-to- use server for Mac, Windows and UNIX users."

Apple is the first major vendor to ship a server operating system with Samba 3, the latest version of the popular open source project that delivers high-performance, reliable file and print services to Windows clients. Now Windows users can authenticate against Panther Server directly from a PC login window. Panther Server can also host their Windows home directories and support Windows "roaming profiles." By tightly integrating Samba 3 with Apple's Open Directory, Panther Server makes it easy for users to access their accounts from either a Mac or a Windows-based PC.

In addition, Apple's revolutionary new Server Admin tool makes it easy for system administrators to set up, manage and monitor the complete set of services built into Panther Server. For example, with a couple of mouse clicks, customers can deploy OpenLDAP and Kerberos for directory and authentication, Samba for Windows support, Postfix for email and Apache for hosting web sites.

Other open standards­based network services in Panther Server designed for mixed-client environments include Open Directory 2, a robust LDAP directory and Kerberos authentication server based on OpenLDAP, Berkeley DB and MIT's Kerberos KDC that delivers industrial-strength scalability and security. An all new mail server rebuilt from the ground up using the open source Postfix SMTP and Cyrus IMAP and POP servers provides an open architecture for integrating with spam and virus filtering solutions, and SSL for secure email. In addition, a new VPN server built into Panther Server supports Mac OS X, Windows or UNIX clients using PPTP and L2TP tunnelling protocols. Panther Server also includes an updated release of Apache, the world's most popular web server along with Apache Tomcat and Apache Axis for creating powerful web services.

Pricing & Availability

Mac OS X Server version 10.3 "Panther" will be available beginning Saturday, October 25th (NZ time) through Apple Authorised Resellers for a suggested retail price of $925+GST for a 10-client edition and $1,850+GST for an unlimited-client edition. Volume and maintenance pricing is available through Apple Authorised Resellers. The standard Mac OS Up-To-Date upgrade package is available to all customers who purchase a new Xserve® on or after October 8 that did not have Panther Server included and to customers who purchase the Mac OS X Server version 10.2 retail product on or after October 8 for a shipping and handling fee of $40 include GST.

Panther Server works together with Apple's powerful Xserve rack-mount server hardware and is designed to run on Power Mac® G5, G4 and G3 computers with a minimum of 128MB RAM, 4GB of available disk space and built-in USB. Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Apple is committed to bringing the best personal computing experience to students, educators and creative professionals and consumers around the world through its innovative hardware, software and Internet offerings.

NOTE TO EDITORS: For additional information visit Apple's PR website (www.apple.com/pr/) .

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