Apple Inc.

HISTORY

Apple was founded on April 1, 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne came together to form the company in order to sell their Apple I personal computer kit.

Steve Wozniak sold his Hewlett Packard calculator for $500 in 1976 to fund the firm’s launch.

The company was incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. on January 3, 1977,  laying the groundwork for an iconic brand that would transform the tech industry.

In 1971, Wozniak appeared briefly as an extra (he played a hippie) in car chase movie Vanishing Point.

Steve Jobs had just been pruning apple trees in Oregon which led him to call his company Apple. “It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge off the word computer, ” Jobs said. Another reason, he added, was he wanted it to appear in the telephone phone book before Atari, his former workplace.

The first Apple logo featured an apple dropping on Isaac Newton’s head.

Ronald Wayne, Apple's logo designer, sold his stock (10% of Apple) for $800 a fortnight after receiving it, because he thought Apple was too risky.

Just 11 days after setting up their company, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak began selling the Apple 1 computer on April 11, 1976. It was sold as an assembled circuit board and lacked basic features such as a keyboard, monitor, and case. It retailed for a bizarrely priced $666.66.

The Apple I. The owner of this unit added a keyboard and a wooden case.. By Photo taken by rebelpilot - Wikipedia 

The Apple I desktop computer was created with money Steve Jobs raised selling his VW Microbus.

The first personal computer, the Apple II, went on sale in 1977.

Apple II computer. On display at the Musée Bolo, EPFL, Lausanne.

The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.

The Beatles started a company called Apple Corps in 1968, which included Apple Electronics, Apple Films and Apple Music. In 1978 they sued and won against Apple Computer Inc for trademark infringement.

The Apple III was released in 1980.  Due to a design flaw, when Apple III owners had problems (like garbled data) they were instructed to "lift the machine three inches and drop it in order to re-seat the chips on the logic board".

The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, was launched on January 19, 1983.

Although the Lisa was a commercial failure—due in part to its initial price tag of $9,995—it had a significant impact on the computer industry.

The Lisa is often rumored to have been named after the first daughter of Apple's Steve Jobs, though several acronyms have been ascribed to the name.

Apple Lisa Wikipedia Commons

The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface,was introduced during Super Bowl XVIII on January 22, 1984 with its famous "1984" television commercial.

Inside the beige plastic enclosure of every 128K Macintosh – the first model sold – were engraved signatures from everyone on the Apple Mac team, including Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

A Macintosh 128K (that has apparently been upgraded to 512K, see window)By w:User:Grm wnr 

In 1986, Apple launched a clothing line.

The iMac is a family of all-in-one Macintosh desktop computers which debuted in August 1998.  Apple made retailers buy iMacs in "five-packs, one in each color," so that the company wouldn't get stuck with the unpopular colors.

Apple introduced its first portable Mac in 1989; it predated the PowerBook by two years. It was a flop – it featured a sharp active-matrix LCD display and a powerful 16MHz 68000 processor, but it weighed a gut-busting 7.25kg and cost $6,500 (£3,600).

The PowerBook 500, introduced in 1994, was the first laptop ever made with a trackpad. By the late 1990s, almost the entire laptop market had switched to trackpads,

The iconic Windows 95 startup sound was composed on a Mac.

On August 6, 1997 Microsoft invested $150 million in Apple Computers to downplay antitrust claims.

The very first Apple Store opened in May 2001 in the state of Virginia.

Fujitsu made a device called the "iPAD" in 2002. Apple had to pay $4 million to Fujitsu to buy the trademark.

The word "Computer" was removed from Apple's name on January 9, 2007, the same day Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, reflecting its shifted focus towards consumer electronics.

Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer on April 3, 2010.

Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple on August 24, 2011, after 14 years in the role. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2004 and had been on medical leave from Apple several times since then. In his resignation letter, Jobs said that he could no longer meet the demands of the job. He recommended Tim Cook, Apple's COO, as his successor.

Jobs continued to serve as chairman of Apple's board of directors until his death on October 5, 2011. He was 56 years old.

Jobs' resignation was a major turning point for Apple. Cook is a very different leader than Jobs, and he has taken the company in a different direction. However, Cook has been successful in his own right, and Apple has continued to thrive under his leadership.

Jobs' legacy at Apple is immense. He is credited with turning the company around and making it one of the most successful technology companies in the world. He is also credited with popularizing many of the products that we use today, such as the iPhone and the iPad.

A rare Apple-1 computer built in Steve Jobs' garage in the summer of 1976 sold at an auction in 2015 for $905,000.

Apple paid just £12.9 million in UK corporation taxation in 2015. It generated enough profits worldwide to pay that bill in just over two hours.

Apple became the first U.S. company to hit a $2 trillion valuation in August 2020, part of a growth bonanza for tech giants during the coranavirus pandemic.

FUN APPLE INC FACTS

If you use iTunes, you have already agreed not to use Apple products to create nuclear weapons.

Apple has a "secret police" called the Worldwide Loyalty Team that makes sure no employees leak something.

Steve Jobs never coded for Apple. According to Steve Wozniak, he didn't do any original design and one of Apple's earliest employees also stated that Woz was the inventor while Jobs was the marketing person.

The meaning behind Apple logo isn’t actually meant to pay tribute to Alan Turing, rather, it was for a practical purpose: scale. The size of the bite showed that the shape was an apple, not a cherry or any other vaguely round fruit.

Only 1 out of 85 college students can correctly draw the Apple logo from memory.

If Apple finds underage workers in their factories, they make the suppliers return the children to their homes, pay for their education at a school of their family’s choice, and continue to provide income for basic needs until they reach the legal working age.

Apple is the first-ever US company to have a market value of over $700 billion.

In 2015, Apple Inc was worth more than Switzerland, Sweden or Nigeria.

In just one second, Apple makes around $2,100.

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