<span class="SFPTagline"> From SCIFIPEDIA </span>

Apple Computer is a technology company founded in 1976.

It has been instrumental in popularizing the consumer use of a variety of high tech, including:

• Graphical User Interface: (the Lisa, 1983)
• the Mouse: (the Macintosh, 1984
• the Laptop Computer: (the Powerbook, 1991)
• mp3 players: (the iPod, 2001)

After the personal computer became popular as both a business tool and a home device, Apple computers were seen regularly in Science Fiction movies. But, as time progressed, more and more, Apple computers were replaced in movies by the standard shape and design of a Microsoft Windows clone computer.