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Learning about Apple services

Discovering what each service does

Checking out Apple One plans

Apple’s known for their capability to surprise us. Remember the small all-in-one computers that looked like lollipops on people’s desks? Surprise! iMacs were a HUGE hit and helped pull Apple from the brink of obscurity. How about that little white rectangle with the circular dial on the front that held thousands of songs on it? You know, the thing Steve Jobs called an “iPod,” which made you toss your CD Walkman in the trash? Surprise! Or how about the surprise of surprises: this time a black rectangle with a touchscreen that could not only hold your songs but also let you place phone calls while you surfed the web with a real web browser? Again, I say, surprise!

Apple's move into the multimedia market — providing music, movies, magazines, games, and the like for their legions of users (that is, fans) — wasn’t exactly a surprise. But their enormous success has been. Let’s find out together just what Apple services are and what they provide.