I stumbled upon an Apple Developer Connection email, or as they spelled it at the time, “A P P L E    D E V E L O P E R    C O N N E C T I O N” from January 10, 2003. It is stamped Issue 332, and it appeared just after MacWorld. Enjoy:

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MACWORLD ANNOUNCEMENTS
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[1] Mac OS X Adoption Soars With More Than 5 Million Users

Apple is entering 2003 with more than 5 million active Mac OS X
users and more than 5,000 native Mac OS X applications. This year
also marks the first “All Mac OS X” Macworld Expo with every
developer on the show floor featuring Mac OS X products.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/jan/07macosx.html

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[2] Apple Introduces X11 for Mac OS X

X11 for Mac OS X allows X11-based applications to run side-by-side
with native Mac OS X applications on the same desktop and makes it
even simpler to port X11-based applications to the Mac. Apple’s
implementation of X11, the common windowing environment for UNIX
operating systems, is easy to install and is optimized to take full
advantage of Apple’s innovative Quartz graphics system.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/jan/07×11.html

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[3] Apple Delivers AirPort Extreme 802.11g Wireless Networking

AirPort Extreme is the next generation of Wi-Fi wireless networking
technology based on the new ultra-fast 802.11g standard. With speeds
up to 54 Mbps, AirPort Extreme delivers almost five times the data
rate of 802.11b based products, yet is fully compatible with the
millions of 802.11b Wi-Fi devices around the world.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/jan/07airportextreme.html

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Apple Inc. shares rose $9.06 to $183.42. The company reported fiscal fourth-quarter net earnings $904 million, or $1.01 a share, on revenue of $6.22 billion. Lat year, Apple earned $542 million, or 62 cents a share, on $4.84 billion in sales. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial forecast earnings of 86 cents a share on revenue of $6.07 billion. Among the quarter’s highlights were sales of 2.16 million Macintosh PCs and 1.11 million iPhones.

Early adopters who bought iPhones at $499 and $599 will get a $100 store credit, says Steve Jobs in a letter released today.

Job’s letter, below, comes on the heels of a $200 price drop — and ensuing online firestorm — announced yesterday on both iPhone models. Only those who bought the phone within 14 days (30 if bought from ATT) are eligible for a refund of the difference.

To all iPhone customers:

I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale. After reading every one of these emails, I have some observations and conclusions.

First, I am sure that we are making the correct decision to lower the price of the 8GB iPhone from $599 to $399, and that now is the right time to do it. iPhone is a breakthrough product, and we have the chance to ‘go for it’ this holiday season. iPhone is so far ahead of the competition, and now it will be affordable by even more customers. It benefits both Apple and every iPhone user to get as many new customers as possible in the iPhone ‘tent’. We strongly believe the $399 price will help us do just that this holiday season.

Second, being in technology for 30+ years I can attest to the fact that the technology road is bumpy. There is always change and improvement, and there is always someone who bought a product before a particular cutoff date and misses the new price or the new operating system or the new whatever. This is life in the technology lane. If you always wait for the next price cut or to buy the new improved model, you’ll never buy any technology product because there is always something better and less expensive on the horizon. The good news is that if you buy products from companies that support them well, like Apple tries to do, you will receive years of useful and satisfying service from them even as newer models are introduced.

Third, even though we are making the right decision to lower the price of iPhone, and even though the technology road is bumpy, we need to do a better job taking care of our early iPhone customers as we aggressively go after new ones with a lower price. Our early customers trusted us, and we must live up to that trust with our actions in moments like these.

Therefore, we have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store. Details are still being worked out and will be posted on Apple’s website next week. Stay tuned.

We want to do the right thing for our valued iPhone customers. We apologize for disappointing some of you, and we are doing our best to live up to your high expectations of Apple.

Steve Jobs
Apple CEO

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/openiphoneletter/

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Goodness gracious.

Apple is on a roll, and the company shows no sign of slowing down.

After the close of the stock market Wednesday, Apple reported profits of $818 million, or 92 cents a share, for its fiscal third quarter. That’s a 73 percent jump compared with last year, when third-quarter profit was $472 million. It’s 9 cents higher than Wall Street was expecting and 26 cents better than the company’s own projections. Strong Mac and iPod sales led the charge, but Apple also has a third business these days.

The company reported selling 270,000 iPhones during the 30 hours before the quarter ended on June 30. That’s at the upper end of what estimates were going into iPhone weekend, though far below some of the extremely high estimates that surfaced following the launch. Still, some were anticipating a smaller number after AT&T reported activating 146,000 iPhones during the same period.

via cnet

That’s right, the Apple Mac browser Safari will be released for Microsoft Windows.

Steve Jobs made it his signature “… one more thing” announcement at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference just 4 minutes ago. More on this later.