The post notes that the first two Apple stores opened May 19, 2001 in McLean Virginia, and in Glendale, California.
Apple has two Apple Stores in Beijing and three in Shanghai, though its products are widely available through other companies.
The Apple iOS action game is already a transmedia franchise with a new novel from Brandon Sanderson, an arcade game from Adrenaline Amusements and the two Apple games.
In their third quarter IT Threat Evolution report, Kaspersky Lab analyst Yury Namestnikov said that those two Apple programs appeared on the top 10 list of most vulnerable programs for the first time, beating out Microsoft products.
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Add to that the two cents of two prominent Apple analysts this week.
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In a little more than two years Apple claims to have sold more than 55 million units.
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But with the cheaper phone there are two directions Apple could go in.
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Aesthetics and marketing are the two things Apple does better than anyone.
Since taking the post on Nov. 1, Johnson has started to revamp the management team, hiring two former Apple colleagues to fill the chief talent officer and chief operating officer roles.
California-based Nest Labs, founded by two former Apple executives, produces a thermostat capable of learning user behaviour and working out when a building is occupied or not, using temperature, humidity, activity and light sensors.
Sentiment around Maps was of course much more negative than general sentiment towards Apple but in fact sentiment had two specific impacts on Apple, sales and reputation.
Two lines of Apple employees in blue shirts formed a gauntlet leading to the store entrance.
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In those two years, Apple laid the groundwork for what can reasonably be called the iTunes era of music.
In just two months, Apple has fallen from investor admiration to investor admonition.
In the past two years, Apple has taken great strides to source minerals responsibly and control their supply chain.
But everywhere two names, Apple and Samsung, leaped out from the neon signs.
Two apps for Apple's iPhone have been released in the last 24 hours.
Even after all the successes of the last two years, Apple is still where it was during the Spindler era.
For each of the past two years, Apple has offered a preview of the next version of iOS in April.
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The project spawned a company, also called Siri, that launched an iPhone app in February 2010 and was acquired by Apple two months later.
The pay raises, first reported by the Business Insider blog, come two months after Apple's newly appointed retail chief, John Browett, joined the company.
Over the last two weeks, Apple climbed more than 11 percent.
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By taking over the global smartphone industry, though Apple, has created two other phenomena that will sink Apple in turn, if it does not adapt quickly.
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The next two years are Apple years, as smart phone and tablet markets grow like mushrooms, and Apple takes share of market and adds new carriers.
Few other details were disclosed about the meeting, which was part of talks between the two companies before Apple filed suit against Samsung in April of last year.
But Jobs hasn't been afraid to mess with his winners, replacing the hot-selling iPod Mini with the iPod Nano in September 2005, less than two years after Apple introduced the Mini.
Either strategy does indeed make good profits: the two companies, Apple and Samsung, between them make more than 100% of the net profits of the entire sector (for many manufacturers are making losses).
There are two possible ways Apple could open up the Apple TV platform to third-party app developers: It could allow devs to create dedicated TV apps, or it could more heavily leverage (and open up) the AirPlay feature already baked into Apple TV to port existing iPad apps to the big screen.
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