Changes

Apple became a publicly traded company December 12, 1980. Apple issued its first corporate stock dividend on May 11, 1987. A month later on June 16, Apple stock split for the first time in a 2:1 split. Apple continued to pay a quarterly dividend with about 0.3% yield until November 21, 1995. On January 25, 2012, Apple became the company with the largest market capitalization.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveschaefer/2012/01/25/blowout-quarter-pushes-apple-over-exxon-in-market-cap/|title=Apple Briefly Tops Exxon In Market Cap After Stunning Quarter|work=Forbes|accessdate=September 2, 2012}}</ref>  On August 27, 2012, its market capitalization reached $637 billion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/27/apple-stock-market-cap-high/|title=Apple reaches new heights: Stock opens at $680, market cap hits $637B|accessdate=September 2, 2012}}</ref> The stock later split 7 for 1 on June 9, 2014.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/06/investing/apple-stock-split/index.html?iid=HP_LN|title=Apple just got 'cheaper.' Will you buy?|work=CNN Money|accessdate=February 6, 2015}}</ref>

Apple became a publicly traded company December 12, 1980. Apple issued its first corporate stock dividend on May 11, 1987. A month later on June 16, Apple stock split for the first time in a 2:1 split. Apple continued to pay a quarterly dividend with about 0.3% yield until November 21, 1995. On January 25, 2012, Apple became the company with the largest market capitalization.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveschaefer/2012/01/25/blowout-quarter-pushes-apple-over-exxon-in-market-cap/|title=Apple Briefly Tops Exxon In Market Cap After Stunning Quarter|work=Forbes|accessdate=September 2, 2012}}</ref>  On August 27, 2012, its market capitalization reached $637 billion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/27/apple-stock-market-cap-high/|title=Apple reaches new heights: Stock opens at $680, market cap hits $637B|accessdate=September 2, 2012}}</ref> The stock later split 7 for 1 on June 9, 2014.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/06/investing/apple-stock-split/index.html?iid=HP_LN|title=Apple just got 'cheaper.' Will you buy?|work=CNN Money|accessdate=February 6, 2015}}</ref>

==Politics==

==Politics==

Apple supported the [[homosexual agenda]] by donating $100,000. to defeat [[Prop 8]] <ref>http://www.osnews.com/story/20432/Google_Apple_Openly_Support_Fight_Against_Proposition_8_</ref> and named its operating system "Darwin".<ref>http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/</ref>

Apple supported the [[homosexual agenda]] by donating $100,000. to defeat [[Prop 8]] <ref>http://www.osnews.com/story/20432/Google_Apple_Openly_Support_Fight_Against_Proposition_8_</ref> and named its operating system "[[Charles Darwin|Darwin]]".<ref>http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/</ref>

[[Al Gore]] was appointed to Apple's Board of Directors in 2003.<ref>http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/mar/19gore.html</ref> Apple's CEO, [[Tim Cook]], is openly homosexual and is the highest profile gay chief executive in America.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/10/30/tim-cook-comes-out/18165361/|title=Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'I'm proud to be gay'|first=Brett|last=Molina|date=October 30, 2014|accessdate=February 6, 2015|work=USA Today}}</ref>

[[Al Gore]] was appointed to Apple's Board of Directors in 2003.<ref>http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/mar/19gore.html</ref> Apple's CEO, [[Tim Cook]], is openly homosexual and is the highest profile "gay" chief executive in America.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/10/30/tim-cook-comes-out/18165361/|title=Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'I'm proud to be gay'|first=Brett|last=Molina|date=October 30, 2014|accessdate=February 6, 2015|work=USA Today}}</ref>

 

On December 2, 2015, an Islamist county employee and his wife killed 14 people and wounded 22 others in [[San Bernadino, California]].  After the attackers were killed, police found that they had destroyed two burner phones but a county-owned iPhone 5C was recovered in tact from one of the assailants.  The iOS operating system encrypted all of the iPhone's contents and has an optional feature that would erase the iPhone if more than 10 incorrect attempts were made to enter a 4 digit pass code.  In ''In the Matter of the Search of an Apple iPhone Seized During the Execution of a Search Warrant on a Black Lexus IS300, California License Plate 35KGD203,'' Apple and the FBI are fighting over whether Apple can be compelled to crack the iPhone.  Apple has been fighting a federal magistrate's ruling that it must assist the FBI in making the iPhone's contents available, and the federal government has argued that there has never been a device that was beyond the scope of a valid search warrant issued by a judge.  At a March 21, 2016 Apple press conference, Cook talked about the ongoing conflict with the FBI by saying "...we have a responsibility to protect your data and your privacy. We will not shrink from this responsibility."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/21/apples-tim-cook-on-iphone-unlocking-case-we-will-not-shrink-from-this-responsibility/|title=Apple’s Tim Cook on iPhone unlocking case: "We will not shrink from this responsibility"|date=March 21, 2016|publisher=AOL|work=TechCrunch}}</ref>

==See also==

==See also==

* [[Apple v. Samsung]]

* [[Apple v. Samsung]]