AppleMasters

AppleMasters was a group of selected people from all over the world who used and endorsed the Apple Macintosh computer. According to Apple, the AppleMasters was "an international group of educators, artists, designers, writers, producers, architects, inventors, scientists, business leaders, humanitarians, musicians, athletes and others who think different." [ [http://www.apple.com/applemasters Apple Inc's AppleMasters site (defunct)] ] As part of Apple's "Think Different" 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-logo'd equipment. The more active members included Sinbad, Herbie Hancock, James Woods, Gregory Hines and Bryan Adams. [ [http://developer.apple.com/adcnews/pastissues/devnews042800.html Apple Developer Connection] ]

Duration of the program

The AppleMasters program was launched in 1996 [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3270/is_200012/ai_n7969242 Apple launches AppleMasters in Asia] ] . Based on findings at archive.org's WayBackMachine, Apple removed the program from their web site on or before August 7 2002. [ [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.apple.com/applemasters AppleMasters archive on Internet Archive] ]

Members of AppleMasters

During the program's life, the following people were members of AppleMasters at one time or another:
*Amory and Hunder Lovins
*Amy Chow
*Andrew Denton
*Bryan Adams
*Charly Alberti
*Damien Hirst
*Dana Atchley
*David Hirschfelder
*David Mash
*Douglas Adams
*Dr. Donald Glaser
*Dr. Donald Laub
*Dr. Fiorella Terenzi
*Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki
*Dr. Mae Jemison
*Dr. Meave Leakey
*Dr. Murray Gell-Mann
*Garth Ancier
*Harrison Ford
*Harry Marks
*Herbie Hancock
*Howard L. Bingham
*James Morrison
* [http://www.leighbureau.com/speaker.asp?id=271 James Steyer]
*James Woods
*Jarvis Cocker
*Jennifer Jason Leigh
*Jerry Uelsmann
*Jim Ludtke
*John A. Alonzo
*John Benson
*John Cleese
*John Knoll
*John Perry Barlow
*Joyce Tenneson
*Kathleen Kennedy
*Lauren Bacall
* [http://www.fishauf.com/ Louis Fishauf]
*Louis Herman and Elele
* [http://www.infsec.cs.uni-sb.de/~backes/ Michael Backes]
*Michael Crichton
*Michael Kamen
*Muhammad Ali
*Paul Davis
*Paul Hawken
*Peter Bergman
*Peter Cochrane
*Peter Gabriel
*Peter Garrett
*Richard Bensen
*Richard Dawkins
*Richard Dreyfuss
*Richard Henderson
*Russell Brown
*Sam Mendes
* [http://www.seymourpowell.com/ Seymour Powell]
*Sinbad
*Sir Chris Bonington
*Sir David Puttnam
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0694320/ Stephanie Powell]
*Stephen Heppell
*Sydney Pollack
* [http://www.igarashistudio.com/en/recent.html Takenobu Igarashi]
*Terry Gilliam
*Tom Clancy
*Tracey Ullman
* [http://artouche.com/html/framesets/main/main-aarti.htm Trevor Flett]
* [http://www.zaha-hadid.com/ Zaha M. Hadid]

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