Motorola alleges that Apple's iPhone, iPad, iTouch and some Macintosh computers illegally use Motorola's technology.
And as Apple executives had hoped, the iPod's popularity is helping drive up sales of its Macintosh computers.
Which is a puzzle, considering how fast sales of iPhones, iPads, and Macintosh computers are growing.
Strong sales of Macintosh computers sent Apple's quarterly earnings up 26.1% over the year-ago period, Apple reported Tuesday.
Apple said it shipped 743, 000 Macintosh computers, about the same number as it did in the previous quarter.
It was a 90-degree day, and the heat from the Macintosh computers had the office cooking at 100 degrees.
Sales of Macintosh computers surged 21% to 2.6 million over the year-ago period.
Mr Jobs co-founded Apple in the 1970s with Steve Wozniak, and its Macintosh computers became hugely popular in the 1980s.
Many saw that as an obvious nod toward IBM's desire to start putting more of its chips into Apple's Macintosh Computers.
For Apple, the move into smartphones was the next step in its shift to consumer-electronics juggernaut from maker of Macintosh computers.
Apple said that it sold 4.9 million Macintosh computers in the latest quarter, a 1% rise from the same three-month period last year.
That's a little puzzling, considering that stronger-than-expected sales of iPods and Macintosh computers helped the company crank out a 73% rise in earnings.
Surging demand for iPhones and Macintosh computers sparked a 94.8% jump in earnings for the quarter ending in March, Apple reported Wednesday.
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It will not support Apple Computer 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Macintosh computers, at least not at first.
Military procurement has long been driven by cost and availability of additional software--two measures where Macintosh computers have typically come up short against Windows-based PCs.
The system, along with its "Time Machine" software, is aimed at wirelessly keeping all data backed up on one or more Macintosh computers running Leopard.
Macintosh computers now have a 10 percent market share, while notebook computers are as much as 20 percent (with an industry record-setting margin of profit).
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Back then it was called AppleLink, a project commissioned by Apple Computer and a company called Quantum Computer Services to connect Apple II and Macintosh computers.
Software makes up just 5% of Apple's revenue, but the company's strategy has always been to create applications compelling enough to fuel sales of its MacIntosh computers.
Inside the store, Apple employees put an iPa- shaped display in the store window, as others helped customers who came to shop for Macintosh computers and iPod music players.
Last month, Apple reported a 78% increase in profit and 71% rise in revenue for the quarter ended Dec. 25 on strong demand for its iPhones, iPads and Macintosh computers.
Wallington, a division chief in the Army's office of enterprise information systems, says the military is quietly working to integrate Macintosh computers into its systems to make them harder to hack.
Wozniak said that Apple's market-changing products - from the Macintosh computers, through to the iPod, iPhone and iPad - were down to Jobs' instinctive feel for what people wanted from technology.
Apple has already promised to keep the focus on new iOS software for its mobile devices and new OS X software for its Macintosh computers at its World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco.
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The dual-core Power6 chip boasts a top speed of 4.7 gigahertz, double that of IBM's previous Power5 and represents a next generation processor to the PowerPC, the chip that was previously used in Apple's Macintosh computers.
Then there have been subtle but important barriers: For instance, Macintosh computers have long been incompatible with a security keycard-reading system known as Common Access Cards system, or CAC, which is heavily used by the military.
Illumina chief executive Jay Flatley has showed off an app that allowed him to read his DNA variants on a iPhone, and the initial customers to pay Illumina to sequence their DNA got their genomes on Macintosh computers.
The service is as yet only available to users of Apple's Macintosh computers, but should debut for users of Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Windows platform before the end of the year.
That's when Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) debuted the Airport, the first cheap Wi-Fi base station that gave people--or at least the blessed few who used Macintosh computers--fast, wireless access to the Web.
During the fourth quarter, Apple experienced the impact of the iPhone and introduced a number of products, but its bottom line was fueled by 2.1 million shipments of its Macintosh computers, exceeding the previous quarterly record for Mac shipments by 400, 000.
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