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Apple was founded on April 1st 1976 in Cupertino, California. Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne
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The Apple I was sold as Motherboad (CPU, RAM and basic textual video chips). Went first on sale for $666.66 ($2772 in 2016 US Dollars)
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The Apple II was invented by Steve Wozniak, Using cassette tapes as storage devices
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The Apple III was introduced in 1980 to compete with IBM and Microsoft in the business and corporate computing market.
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Apple shares went public at $22 a share, generating more capitol than any IPO in recent history
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In 1984 The Apple Macintosh was released as the first computer to be sold without a programming language at all.
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Steve Jobs was relieved of his managerial duties after he was found out trying to get rid of the CEO at the time John Sculley
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The Powerbook set the president for the shapes of laptops for the future.
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Allied with IBM and Motorola with the goal of creating a new computer platform (PowerPC Reference Platform)
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At the 1997 Macworld Expo Steve Jobs announced the Apple are joining Microsoft to release new versions of Microsoft Office for the Macintosh, and that Microsoft had made a $150 Million investment in non-voting apple stock.
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The NeXT Deal brought Steve Jobs back to the company as an advisor, which would later prove to be a good move as the company returned to making vast amounts of profit.
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The iMac design team was led by the same person who designed the iPod and iPhone. The iMac featured modern technology and a unique design, and sold almost 800,000 units in the first five months.
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Mac OS X, based on NeXT's OPENSTEP and BSD Unix, was released on March 24, 2001 after several years of development. Aimed at consumers and professionals alike, Mac OS X aimed to combine the stability, reliability and security of Unix with the ease of use afforded by an overhauled user interface.
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On May 19, 2001, Apple opened the first official Apple Retail Stores in Virginia and California
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Apple debuted the iPod portable digital audio player but was first sold November 10 2001 was phenomally successful with over 100 million units sold within six years.
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On January 10, 2006, the new MacBook Pro and iMac became the first Apple computers to use Intel's Core Duo CPU. By August 7, 2006, Apple made the transition to Intel chips for the entire Mac product line—over one year sooner than announced.
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During his keynote speech at the Macworld Expo on January 9, 2007, Jobs announced that Apple Computer, Inc. would there after be known as "Apple Inc.", because the company had shifted its emphasis from computers to consumer electronics. This event also saw the announcement of the iPhone and the Apple TV
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In July 2008, Apple launched the App Store to sell third-party applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Within a month, the store sold 60 million applications and registered an average daily revenue of $1 million, with Jobs speculating in August 2008 that the App Store could become a billion-dollar business for Apple.
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The iPhone 3GS is a smartphone that was designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It is the third generation iPhone, successor to the iPhone 3G. It was introduced on June 8, 2009, at the WWDC 2009 which took place at the Moscone Center, San Francisco
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After years of speculation and multiple rumored "leaks", Apple announced a large screen, tablet-like media device known as the iPad on January 27, 2010. The iPad ran the same touch-based operating system as the iPhone, and many iPhone apps were compatible with the iPad. This gave the iPad a large app catalog on launch, despite very little development time before the release
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In June 2010, Apple released the iPhone 4, which introduced video calling, multitasking, and a new uninsulated stainless steel design that acted as the phone's antenna. Later that year, Apple again refreshed its iPod line of MP3 players by introducing a multi-touch iPod Nano, an iPod Touch with FaceTime, and an iPod Shuffle that brought back the buttons of earlier generations
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On August 24, 2011, Jobs resigned his position as CEO of Apple. He was replaced by Cook and Jobs became Apple's chairman. Prior to this, Apple did not have a chairman and instead had two co-lead directors, Andrea Jung and Arthur D. Levinson, who continued with those titles until Levinson became Chairman of the Board in November.
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On October 5, 2011, Apple announced that Jobs had died, marking the end of an era for Apple.
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iPhone 5 (released September 21, 2012) becoming Apple's biggest iPhone launch with over 2 million pre-orders.
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The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The devices are part of the iPhone series and were unveiled on September 9, 2014, and released on September 19, 2014. The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus jointly serve as successors to the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S.
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The macbook was relaunched in 2015, 9 years after it was first introduced.
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Apple had 453 retail stores across 16 countries as of March 2015
