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|  Ten Years Ago Today   
  
December 20th, 1996 - December 20th, 2006   
  
Apple NeXT Merger   
  
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|  And the rest they say is ......   
  
... Jobs back in charge of Apple ... iPOD ... OSX ... Macs with Intel processors ...   
  
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|  Fourteen Years Ago Today...  
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|  Twenty-one years ago today! This thread is older than the merger was when it was started. And just today rumors broke that Apple may start moving away from AppKit for Mac development. | 

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