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Apple Lossless Audio Codec

Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC), also known as Apple Lossless, is a lossless audio compression format introduced by Apple in 2004 and used for the entire Apple Music lossless catalog.

Apple M-series

Apple M-series is a family of Arm-based Apple chips for Macs and iPads, starting with the M1 in 2020, integrating CPU, GPU, and memory on one chip.

Apple M1

The Apple M1 is a system on a chip designed by Apple for its Mac computers, announced in November 2020 and built on a 5-nanometer process with 16 billion transistors.

Apple M2

The Apple M2 is a system on a chip designed by Apple for the Mac and iPad, announced on June 6, 2022 as the second generation of Apple silicon.

Apple M3

Apple M3 is a family of system-on-a-chip processors designed by Apple for Mac computers, announced in October 2023 and the first personal computer chips built on a 3-nanometer process.

Apple M4

The Apple M4, also known as the M4 chip, is a system on a chip by Apple announced in May 2024 for the iPad Pro and Mac computers.

Apple M5

The Apple M5 is a series of system-on-a-chip processors designed by Apple for Mac, iPad, and Vision Pro, announced in October 2025 as the fifth generation of Apple silicon.

Apple maggot

Apple maggot (Rhagoletis pomonella), railroad worm, a tephritid fruit fly native to eastern North America. Larvae tunnel apples; its mid-1800s hawthorn-to-apple host shift is a leading model of sympatric speciation.

Apple Maps

Apple Maps is a web mapping service developed by Apple that provides navigation, transit directions, and street-level imagery on Apple devices and, since 2024, in a web browser.

Apple Music

Apple Music is Apple's subscription music streaming service, launched June 30, 2015 on the acquired Beats Music platform, with Beats 1 radio, Connect, lossless and Dolby Atmos audio, and a 100-million-song catalog.

Apple Music 100 Best Albums

Apple Music 100 Best Albums is Apple Music's 2024 ranked list of the greatest albums ever made, topped by Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, followed by Thriller and Abbey Road, chosen by weighted voting among Apple editors and outside artists and experts.

Apple Music Live: Mayhem Requiem

Apple Music Live: Mayhem Requiem (MAYHEM Requiem) is Lady Gaga's 2026 live album and concert film for Apple Music Live, reimagining her album Mayhem, recorded at The Wiltern, Los Angeles, released May 14, 2026 on Interscope in Spatial Audio.

Apple Network Server

The Apple Network Server was a line of PowerPC tower servers sold by Apple from 1996 to 1997, running IBM's AIX UNIX instead of the Mac OS.

Apple News

Apple News is Apple's preinstalled news aggregator app for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS, combining human-curated Top Stories, algorithmic Trending Stories, and the Apple News+ subscription, distinct from Google News and Apple News+ alone.

Apple Newton

The Apple Newton is a pen-based personal digital assistant platform developed by Apple Computer, sold from 1993 to 1998 with the MessagePad line, Newton OS, and eMate 300.

Apple of my eye

Apple of my eye: English idiom for a cherished person, originally the pupil of the eye. From Old English æppel on the ēagan, coined in Wycliffe's 1382 translation, biblical Hebrew passages, popularized by Walter Scott's 1816 Old Mortality.

Apple Park

Apple Park, also called Apple Campus 2, is Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, California, a 175-acre campus with a circular glass main building opened in April 2017.

Apple Pay

Apple Pay is Apple's mobile payment and digital wallet service, launched in 2014, letting users pay in stores, online, and in apps with an iPhone or Apple Watch.

Apple peel powder

Apple peel powder, also called dried apple peel powder (DAPP), is a polyphenol-rich dried apple peel ingredient; US GRAS notices GRN 000613 (withdrawn 2016) and GRN 805 (no questions) cover its food use.

Apple Pencil

Apple Pencil is Apple's line of styluses for writing, sketching, and marking up documents on the iPad, first sold in 2015 and now offered in four parallel models.

Apple pie

Apple pie, a baked dessert of spiced apple slices and thickener in a pastry crust, is a 14th-century British invention that became an American icon. Key facts: 1381 English recipe, 1924 'as American as apple pie' ad, filling thickening science.

Apple ProRes

Apple ProRes, also known as ProRes, is a family of lossy intraframe video codecs introduced by Apple in 2007 for high-quality post-production editing at storage rates far below uncompressed video.

Apple Records

Apple Records is the record label founded by The Beatles in 1968 as a division of Apple Corps Ltd, home of the green Granny Smith apple logo, the first release "Hey Jude" (1968), artists such as Mary Hopkin, Badfinger, and James Taylor, and today the Beatles' catalog.

Apple scab

Apple scab, caused by the fungus Venturia inaequalis (black spot), is the major fungal disease of apple and crabapple worldwide; ascospores from fallen leaves cause spring infections, conidia spread it all season.

Apple silicon

Apple silicon is the collective name for the system-on-chip processors Apple designs in house, including the A-series in iPhones, the M-series in Macs, and the S-series in Apple Watch.

Apple Store

The Apple Store is Apple's chain of company-owned retail stores, opened in 2001 at Tysons Corner, Virginia, and grown to more than 500 stores worldwide.

Apple strudel

Apfelstrudel (apple strudel): Viennese pastry of hand-stretched, paper-thin dough rolled around apples, rum-soaked raisins, cinnamon, and buttered breadcrumbs; Ottoman-derived dough, oldest recipes dated 1696/1697, baked at 180 °C.

Apple Thunderbolt Display

The Apple Thunderbolt Display is a 27-inch monitor Apple sold from 2011 to 2016 for $999, acting as a single-cable docking station with USB, Ethernet, and FireWire ports for Macs.

Apple Tree Yard

Apple Tree Yard: 2013 psychological courtroom thriller by Louise Doughty (Faber & Faber) about geneticist Yvonne Carmichael's affair, rape, and murder trial; adapted as a four-part BBC One 2017 series starring Emily Watson, averaging 8.23m viewers.

Apple TV

Apple TV is a digital media player, or set-top box, made by Apple that streams video, music, and apps to a television, first shipped in 2007.