page_title: Outline of Apple Inc.
section_title: Software
hierarchical_section_title: Outline of Apple Inc. / Software
caption_attribution_description: Steve Jobs at a presentation
context_page_description: The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Apple Inc.:
  The outline of Apple Inc. covers the consumer electronics, software, retail stores, corporate acquisitions, timeline, and personnel under the purview of the American multinational corporation. The company's best-known hardware products are the Macintosh, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad. Its best-known software includes the macOS and iOS operating systems, and the iTunes media browser. As of March 2014, Apple has 425 retail stores in 16 countries, and an online store.
context_section_description: Aperture – a photo editing and management computer program aimed at pro users, compared to the consumer-based, iPhoto. Discontinued in April 2015, and along with iPhoto, both replaced by new app Photos.
  Bento – a database application. Discontinued in September 2013.
  FileMaker Pro – a cross-platform relational database application.
  Final Cut Pro – a non-linear video editing software.
  iLife – a suite of software applications for organizing, editing, and publishing photos, movies, and music. The suite comprises five applications, all of which run on the macOS operating system:
  iPhoto – a consumer-based photo storage and editing application forming part of the original iLife software suite, subsequently sold separately via the Mac App Store, giving users tools to edit and organize their photos. Later, it also enabled connection to Photo Stream capabilities. Apple's Aperture is available for pro users. Discontinued in April 2015 and replaced by Photos.
  Digital Photo Access Protocol (DPAP) – Apple's proprietary protocol allowing iPhoto folders stored on remote storage devices (e.g. network-attached storage (NAS) drives) limited share ability to multiple devices.
  iMovie – a video creation application forming part of the original iLife software suite and subsequently sold separately via the Mac App Store, giving users tools to edit and sequence video footage into a coherent video.
  iDVD – a DVD authoring application forming part of the original iLife software suite, allowing users to design and put together a DVD, and also to burn to blank DVD discs if required. Discontinued with the release of Mountain Lion.
  GarageBand – an audio editing and sequencing application forming part of the original iLife software suite and subsequently sold separately via the Mac App Store, giving users tools to edit and sequence audio.
  iWeb – a web designing application forming part of the original iLife software suite, giving users basic HTML webpage design tools, and also tools to publish these pages to a server. Discontinued with the release of Mountain Lion.
  iOS (previously iPhone OS) – software for iOS devices, usually in the form of apps of OS updates. Unlike Mac OS apps, since iOS inception, all apps have been released and sold through the Apple iOS App Store.
  CarPlay (previously iOS in the Car) – a standard Apple is introducing from 2014 into car systems allowing native iOS device control using the car's in-build controls and displays, giving eyes-free and hands-free operation. It also incorporates the usage of Apple's previously released Siri Eyes Free mode.
  Jailbreaking – a form of privilege escalation on iOS, giving users root access to the operating system, allowing them to download additional applications, extensions, and themes that are unavailable through the official Apple iOS App Store for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Apple TV (2nd generation).
  Version history – version history of the iOS operating system.
  iTunes – a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, saving, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop or laptop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store to purchase and download music, music videos, television shows, iPod games, audiobooks, podcasts, movies and movie rentals (not available in all countries), and ringtones (only available on iPod Touch (4th generation) onwards, and iPhone). It is also used to download apps from the App Store for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. iTunes has been criticized for not being able to transfer music from one portable device to another.
  Digital Audio Access Protocol (DAAP) (as used for iTunes Server functionality) – Apple's proprietary protocol allowing iTunes media folders stored on remote storage devices (e.g. network-attached storage (NAS) drives) limited share ability to multiple devices.
  Apple Podcasts – Similar to songs, "Smart playlists" can be used to control podcasts in a playlist, setting criteria such as date and number of times listened to.
  iWork – an office suite o
caption: Steve Jobs talks about the transition to Intel in 2005
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