AppleMasters was a group of selected people from all over the world who used and endorsed the Apple Macintosh

Macintosh

The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...

 computer. According to Apple, AppleMasters were "an international group of educators, artists, designers, writers, producers, architects, inventors, scientists, business leaders, humanitarians, musicians, athletes and others who think different." As part of Apple's "Think Different

Think Different

"Think Different" is an advertising slogan created for Apple Computer in 1997 by the Los Angeles office of advertising agency TBWA\Chiat\Day.It was used in a television commercial, several print advertisements and a number of TV promos for Apple products. Apple's use of the slogan was discontinued...

" advertising campaign, Apple would use the members in various forms of advertising - including company events and commercials. In return, Apple would reimburse the members with free computers and other Apple branded equipment. The more active members included Sinbad

Sinbad

Sinbad or Sindbad may refer to:* Sinbad the Sailor, from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, also known as Arabian Nights* Sinbad the Sailor, an alias of Edmond Dantes in the novel The Count of Monte Cristo...

, Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...

, James Woods

James Woods

James Howard Woods is an American film, stage and television actor. Woods is known for starring in critically acclaimed films such as Once Upon a Time in America, Salvador, Nixon, Ghosts of Mississippi, Casino, and in the television legal drama Shark. He has won three Emmy Awards, and has gained...

, Gregory Hines

Gregory Hines

Gregory Oliver Hines was an American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer.-Early years:Born in New York City, Hines and his older brother Maurice started dancing at an early age, studying with choreographer Henry LeTang...

, and Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams, is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, actor and photographer. Adams has won dozens of awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations. He has also received 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written...

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Duration of the program

The AppleMasters program was launched in 1996. Based on findings at archive.org's WayBackMachine

Internet Archive

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, Apple removed the program from their web site on or before August 7, 2002.

Members of AppleMasters

During the program's life, the following people were members of AppleMasters at one time or another:

• Bryan Adams
  Bryan Adams
  Bryan Adams, is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, actor and photographer. Adams has won dozens of awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations. He has also received 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written...
  
  
• Douglas Adams
  Douglas Adams
  Douglas Noel Adams was an English writer and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television...
  
  
• Charly Alberti
  Charly Alberti
  Carlos Alberto Ficicchia Gigliotti , known by his stage name Charly Alberti, is an Argentine rock musician, better recognized as the drummer of the influential argentine rock band Soda Stereo. Because of this, he is considered one of the most important musicians of latin and Spanish rock...
  
  
• Muhammad Ali
  Muhammad Ali
  Muhammad Ali is an American former professional boxer, philanthropist and social activist...
  
  
• John A. Alonzo
  John A. Alonzo
  John Alonzo, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer who pioneered hand held work, lighting techniques and HD development during his career...
  
  
• Garth Ancier
  Garth Ancier
  Garth Ancier is a media executive best known for being one of only two people to have programmed three of the five US broadcast television networks .He is the former President of BBC Worldwide America and...
  
  
• Dana Atchley
• Lauren Bacall
  Lauren Bacall
  Lauren Bacall is an American film and stage actress and model, known for her distinctive husky voice and sultry looks.She first emerged as leading lady in the Humphrey Bogart film To Have And Have Not and continued on in the film noir genre, with appearances in The Big Sleep and Dark Passage ,...
  
  
• Michael Backes
• John Perry Barlow
  John Perry Barlow
  John Perry Barlow is an American poet and essayist, a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian political activist who has been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He is also a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic...
  
  
• Richard Benson
  Richard Benson
  Richard M.A. Benson is an American photographer.He teaches at the Yale University and was dean of the Yale School of Art, from 1996 to 2006.-Awards:* 1978 Guggenheim Fellow* National Endowment for the Arts fellow...
  
  
• John Benson
  John Benson (artisan)
  John Everett Benson , known as Fud, is a calligrapher, stonecarver and typeface designer who has created inscriptions for monuments including the John F. Kennedy memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, the National Gallery of Art, and the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC.John Benson was born in...
  
  
• Peter Bergman
  Peter Bergman
  Peter Bergman is an American soap opera actor best known for his portrayals as Dr. Cliff Warner on All My Children, as well as Jack Abbott on The Young and the Restless.-Biography:...
  
  
• Howard L. Bingham
  Howard Bingham
  Howard Bingham Howard Bingham Howard Bingham (born Jackson, Mississippi, 1939 is the biographer of Muhammad Ali and a professional photographer.He was the son of a minister and Pullman porter for the US railroad. After initially failing a photography course, he was hired by a local newspaper and...
  
  
• Chris Bonington
  Chris Bonington
  Sir Christian John Storey Bonington, CVO, CBE, DL is a British mountaineer.His career has included nineteen expeditions to the Himalayas, including four to Mount Everest and the first ascent of the south face of Annapurna.-Early life and expeditions:Educated at University College School in...
  
  
• Russell Preston Brown
• Amy Chow
  Amy Chow
  Amy Yuen Yee Chow is a retired American gymnast and a member of the famous Magnificent 7, the first American team to win Olympic gymnastics gold...
  
  
• Tom Clancy
  Tom Clancy
  Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy, Jr. is an American author, best known for his technically detailed espionage, military science, and techno thriller storylines set during and in the aftermath of the Cold War, along with video games on which he did not work, but which bear his name for licensing and...
  
  
• John Cleese
  John Cleese
  John Marwood Cleese is an English actor, comedian, writer, and film producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report...
  
  
• Peter Cochrane
• Jarvis Cocker
  Jarvis Cocker
  Jarvis Branson Cocker is an English musician and frontman for the band Pulp. Through his work with the band, Cocker became a figurehead of the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s. Following Pulp's hiatus Cocker has led a successful solo career...
  
  
• Michael Crichton
  Michael Crichton
  John Michael Crichton , best known as Michael Crichton, was an American best-selling author, producer, director, and screenwriter, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction, and thriller genres. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and many have been adapted...
  
  
• Paul Davis
  Paul Davis (singer)
  Paul Lavon Davis was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his radio hits and solo career which started worldwide in 1970. His career encompassed soul, country and pop music...
  
  
• Richard Dawkins
  Richard Dawkins
  Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL , known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author...
  
  
• Andrew Denton
  Andrew Denton
  Andrew Christopher Denton is an Australian television producer, comedian, Gold Logie-nominated television presenter and former radio host, and was the host of the ABC's weekly television interview program Enough Rope. He is known for his comedy and interviewing technique...
  
  
• Richard Dreyfuss
  Richard Dreyfuss
  Richard Stephen Dreyfuss is an American actor best known for starring in a number of film, television, and theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Stakeout, Always, What About...
  
  
• Trevor Flett
• Harrison Ford
  Harrison Ford
  Harrison Ford is an American film actor and producer. He is famous for his performances as Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy and as the title character of the Indiana Jones film series. Ford is also known for his roles as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner, John Book in Witness and Jack Ryan in...
  
  
• Louis Fishauf
  Louis Fishauf
  Louis Fishauf is an award-winning graphic designer, art director and illustrator known for creating logos, magazines, websites, packaging and brand identities for such companies as Sympatico, Adbeast, Alias, Roots, Molson Breweries, Intact Insurance and Toronto Life.In 1991 Fishauf received the...
  
  
• Peter Gabriel
  Peter Gabriel
  Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career...
  
  
• Peter Garrett
  Peter Garrett
  Peter Robert Garrett, AM, MP , is an Australian musician, environmentalist, activist and politician.Garrett was lead singer of the Australian rock band Midnight Oil from 1973 until its disbanding in 2002...
  
  
• Murray Gell-Mann
  Murray Gell-Mann
  Murray Gell-Mann is an American physicist and linguist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles...
  
  
• Terry Gilliam
  Terry Gilliam
  Terrence Vance "Terry" Gilliam is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam is also known for directing several films, including Brazil , The Adventures of Baron Munchausen , The Fisher King , and 12 Monkeys...
  
  
• Donald A. Glaser
  Donald A. Glaser
  Donald Arthur Glaser , is an American physicist, neurobiologist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his invention of the Bubble chamber used in subatomic particle physics....
  
  
• Zaha M. Hadid
• Herbie Hancock
  Herbie Hancock
  Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
  
  
• Paul Hawken
  Paul Hawken
  Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author.-Life:Paul Hawken had a Swedish grandmother and a Scottish grandfather with a farm. His father worked at UC Berkeley...
  
  
• Richard Henderson
• Stephen Heppell
• Louis Herman and Elele
  Louis Herman
  Louis Herman is a researcher of dolphin sensory abilities, dolphin cognition, and humpback whales. He is currently professor in the Department of Psychology and a cooperating faculty member of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa...
  
  
• Gregory Hines
  Gregory Hines
  Gregory Oliver Hines was an American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer.-Early years:Born in New York City, Hines and his older brother Maurice started dancing at an early age, studying with choreographer Henry LeTang...
  
  
• David Hirschfelder
  David Hirschfelder
  David Hirschfelder is an Australian film score composer and performer.Hirschfelder was born and raised in Ballarat, Victoria....
  
  
• Damien Hirst
  Damien Hirst
  Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist, entrepreneur and art collector. He is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artists , who dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s. He is internationally renowned, and is reportedly Britain's richest living artist,...
  
  
• Takenobu Igarashi
• Mae Jemison
  Mae Jemison
  Mae Carol Jemison is an American physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.-Early years:...
  
  
• Michael Kamen
  Michael Kamen
  Michael Arnold Kamen was an American composer , orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, song writer, and session musician.-Background:...
  
  
• Kathleen Kennedy
  Kathleen Kennedy (movie producer)
  Kathleen Kennedy is an American film producer. In 1981 she co-founded Amblin Entertainment with her husband, Frank Marshall, and Steven Spielberg . She is known for producing the Jurassic Park films, and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial...
  
  
• John Knoll
  John Knoll
  John Knoll is a visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic . One of the original creators of Adobe Photoshop , he is recently best known for his work as Visual Effects Supervisor on the Star Wars prequels and the 1997 special editions of the original trilogy...
  
  
• Karl Kruszelnicki
  Karl Kruszelnicki
  Karl Kruszelnicki AM is a scientist, who is best known as an author and science commentator on Australian radio and television. He is often referred to as Dr Karl....
  
  
• Donald Laub
  Donald Laub
  Donald R. Laub Sr. is a retired plastic surgeon who led multidisciplinary teams on reconstructive surgery missions to developing countries. He completed his undergraduate studies at Marquette University and earned an MD from the Marquette University School of Medicine in 1960...
  
  
• Meave Leakey
  Meave Leakey
  Meave G. Leakey is together with her husband Richard Leakey one of the most renowned contemporary paleontologists. She studies the origin of mankind in Africa.-Flat-Faced Man of Kenya:...
  
  
• Jennifer Jason Leigh
  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  Jennifer Jason Leigh is an American film and stage actress, best known for her roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Single White Female, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Georgia and Short Cuts...
  
  
• Amory and Hunder Lovins
  Amory Lovins
  Amory Bloch Lovins is an American environmental scientist and writer, Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. He has worked in the field of energy policy and related areas for four decades...
  
  
• Jim Ludtke
• Harry Marks
  Harry Marks
  Harry Hananel Marks was a British politician and journalist, who founded the Financial News in 1884.-Early life:Harry Marks was born in London on 9 April 1855, a younger child of David Woolf Marks and his wife Cecilia...
  
  
• David Mash
• Sam Mendes
  Sam Mendes
  Samuel Alexander "Sam" Mendes, CBE is an English stage and film director. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning work on his debut film American Beauty and his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret , Oliver! , Company and Gypsy . He's currently working on the 23rd James Bond...
  
  
• James Morrison
  James Morrison (musician)
  James Morrison AM is an Australian jazz musician who plays numerous instruments, but is best known for his trumpet playing...
  
  
• Michael Phillips
  Michael Phillips
  Michael Phillips is the name of:*Michael Phillips *Michael Phillips *Michael Phillips *Michael Phillips *Michael Phillips , figure skater and ice dancer...
  
  
• Sydney Pollack
  Sydney Pollack
  Sydney Irwin Pollack was an American film director, producer and actor. Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he later taught acting...
  
  
• Seymour Powell
• Stephanie Powell
• David Puttnam
  David Puttnam
  David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam, CBE, FRSA is a British film producer. He sits on the Labour benches in the House of Lords, although he is not principally a politician.-Early life:...
  
  
• Tom Robinson
  Tom Robinson
  Tom Robinson is an English singer-songwriter, bassist and radio presenter, better known for the hits "Glad to Be Gay", "2-4-6-8 Motorway", and "Don't Take No for an Answer", with his Tom Robinson Band...
  
  
• Sinbad
• James Steyer
• Joyce Tenneson
  Joyce Tenneson
  Joyce Tenneson is an American fine art photographer known for her distinctive style of photography, which often involves nude or semi-nude women. Tenneson shoots primarily with the Polaroid 20x24 camera...
  
  
• Fiorella Terenzi
  Fiorella Terenzi
  Fiorella Terenzi is an Italian astrophysicist, author and musician who is best known for taking recordings of radio waves from galaxies and turning them into music...
  
  
• Jerry Uelsmann
  Jerry Uelsmann
  Jerry N. Uelsmann is an American photographer.Uelsmann was born in Detroit, Michigan. When he was in high school, his interest in photography sparked. He originally believed that using a camera could allow him to exist outside of himself, to live in a world captured through the lens...
  
  
• Tracey Ullman
  Tracey Ullman
  Tracey Ullman is a British stage and television actress, comedienne, singer, dancer, screenwriter and author ....
  
  
• James Woods
  James Woods
  James Howard Woods is an American film, stage and television actor. Woods is known for starring in critically acclaimed films such as Once Upon a Time in America, Salvador, Nixon, Ghosts of Mississippi, Casino, and in the television legal drama Shark. He has won three Emmy Awards, and has gained...