On December 21, 1994, Mac gamers got their hands on "Marathon," an innovative sci-fi title that quickly became a fan favorite.

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On December 20, 1996, Apple Computer officially bought NeXT, the computer company Steve Jobs founded after leaving Apple a decade earlier.

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On December 19, 2007, Apple settled a lawsuit with Nick Ciarelli that shuttered “Think Secret,” his popular Apple rumors site.

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On December 18, 2006, the iPhone was announced -- but it wasn't made by Apple. Instead, it was a Linksys iPhone from Cisco Systems.

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On December 17, 2009, Apple finally triumphed over long-time rival Microsoft ... on mobile operating systems market share.

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On December 16, 1994, Apple inked a deal with Power Computing, allowing it to make Macintosh-compatible computers. The Mac clones era began!

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On December 15, 2003, almost eight months after launching the iTunes Music Store, Apple celebrated its festive 25 millionth download.

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On December 12, 1980, Apple went public, floating 4.6 million shares of stock at $22 per share. The Apple IPO makes some rich, others mad.

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On December 11, 2013, a Chinese labor rights group called on Apple to investigate the deaths of workers at a Pegatron iPhone factory.

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On December 10, 2012, Cupertino corrected an Apple Maps glitch that caused motorists in Australia to get stranded in the middle of nowhere.

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On December 9, 2011, Apple opened its fifth Manhattan retail store, located in New York's ultra-busy Grand Central Terminal.

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On December 8, 1975, Paul Terrell opened the Byte Shop, one of the world's first computer stores -- and the first to sell an Apple computer.

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On December 7, 2007, Apple opened a magisterial store on West 14th Street in New York City featuring a stunning, three-story glass staircase.

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On December 6, 2000, Apple Computer's stock price fell dramatically after lousy quarterly results. However, the best was yet to come in 2001.

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On December 5, 2002, Apple said it had served its millionth customer in the Apple Store online, five years after launching the service.

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On December 4, 1992, Apple engineers demonstrated a "proof of concept" that's part of a secret project to run the Mac OS on Intel PCs.

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On December 3, 2012, News Corp pulled the plug on innovative iPad newspaper "The Daily" less than two years after the publication's launch.

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On December 2, 1991, Apple shipped its first public version of QuickTime, bringing video to Mac users running System 7.

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On December 1, 1981, the Apple III relaunch addressed the computer's biggest hardware faults as the company did damage control.

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On November 30, 2003, Apple first expanded its Apple Store chain outside the United States with a new store in Tokyo's Ginza district.

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