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Apple was established on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, to sell the Apple I personal computer kit.
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The Apple II is publicly introduced for $1295.
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The Lisa Project, a $2000 Apple III-like computer, begins under Ken Rothmuller. Expected release was March 1981.
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December 12: Apple goes public. Apple's share rises 32% that day, making 40 employees instant millionares.
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Jobs forces himself into the Macintosh Project, after earlier dismissing and often trying to cancel it.
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After Jobs forces Raskin out of the Macintosh project, he officially resigns.
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The Macintosh Introduction Plan, a list of popular developers and celebrities that are invited to beta-test the Mac, is written
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Jobs tries to force Sculley out of Apple by forming a coup against him.
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Apple releases the 66 MHz PowerPC Upgrade Card, the first commercial PowerPC produc
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Apple announces the iMac and new PowerBook G3 models. Two of the most innovative machines I've ever seen.
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Apple announces its first profitable year since 1995. Mac OS 8.5 is released to an ecstatic audience, promised Copland features appear. It is found that 43% of all iMac buyers are new to the Macintosh platform, an unimaginable number of new prospective buyers.
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The original iPod was released in October 2001. Said to have 1000 songs in your pocket.
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On June 28, 2007, during an address to Apple employees, Steve Jobs announced that all full-time Apple employees and those part-time employees that have been with the company at least one year would receive a free iPhone.
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The iPad was announced on January 27, 2010, by Steve Jobs at an Apple press conference at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Jobs later said that Apple began developing the iPad before the iPhone, but temporarily shelved the effort upon realizing that its ideas would work just as well in a mobile phone
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Jobs died at his California home around 3 p.m. on October 5, 2011, due to complications from a relapse of his previously treated islet-cell neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer, resulting in respiratory arrest.
