Apple history

By Juan C Salcedo
  • Apple was founded as a partnership on April Fool’s Day

    Apple was founded as a partnership on April Fool’s Day

    by three people: Steven Gary Wozniak, Steven Paul Jobs, and Ronald Gerald

  • Apple´s first computer was the Apple 1

  • The Apple II was introduced

  • The Lisa was the first personal computer to offer a graphical user interface

  • The Apple III was released

  • Apple launched the Initial Public Offering of its stock to the investing public.

  • , Apple held its first shareholders meeting as a public company

  • , Apple became the first personal company to reach $1 billion in annual sales.

  • The Apple Macintosh

  • The first Macintosh TV ad was aired during the coveted Super Bowl half-time slot.

  • Apple Computers struggled to survive falling market shares and inefficient leadership.

  • Macintosh XL

  • Apple signed an agreement

    to let Bill Gates use Mac GUI (graphical user interface) technology in Windows 1.0 if Microsoft continued to produce products for the Mac.

  • Macintosh Plus

  • Macintosh ll

  • Macintosh llx

  • Macintosh Portable

    became Apple’s first “portable” Mac computer

  • Macintosh LC

  • PowerBook

  • Macintosh Quadra 950

  • Macintosh

  • PowerBook 540c

  • Power Macintosh 8500

  • PowerBook 1400

  • Jobs returned to Apple because the request of the boardn

  • Steve Jobs replaced the rainbow color of the apple logo with solid white.

    Steve Jobs replaced the rainbow color of the apple logo with solid white.

  • Apple would be entering into a partnership with Microsoft.

  • iMac

  • Power Mac G4

  • iBook

  • PowerBook G4

  • Apple introduced Mac OS X,

  • Apple introduced its first iPod portable digital audio player.