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Two college dropouts, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, started Apple Computers
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The original Apple computer was a personal computer built by Apple Computer company. They were hand-built by Steve Wozniak and had a wooden casing.
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On April 16, 1977, the Apple II was introduced at the West Coast Computer Faire. This computer featured character-based cell-color graphics and an open architecture. The Apple II also introduced a 5 1/2 inch floppy disk drive and interface, the Disk II. The Apple II was chosen to be the desktop platform for the first "killer app" of the business world, VisiCalc, which was a spreadsheet program.
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On January 19, 1983, the Apple Lisa was released, and was the first computer to offer GUI- Graphial User Interface
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On January 24, 1984, the Apple Macintosh was released, boosted by the famous commercial "1984" that aired during SuperBowl XVIII two days before. The computer included advanced graphics capabilities, which had necessarily been built in to create the Macintosh's GUI
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Steve Jobs leaves his own company after he is ousted from power by the executives.
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On September 20 1989, the Apple Macintosh Portable was released into stores. This computer weighed a bulky 16.5 lbs. and included a 12-hour battery life.
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On May 13, 1991, the System 7 update was introduced for the Macintosh computer. The update added color to the interface and presented new networking capabilities
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In October 1991 (the exact date is not known), the Apple Powerbook was released
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In the year 1994 (the exact date is not known), the Apple PowerMacintosh was released
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On November 10, 1997, the Apple Online Store was introduced. The online store included several products from their catalog.
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Online store featuring applications for books, games, music, news and many other things. News apps in particular were created by several respected Newspapers (Washington Post, New York Times,CNN) to be able to meet the demands of the digital age.
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Apple begins to sell the Ipad which was a ten inch tablet with a touch screen, with capabilities of web browsing as well as apps for news and weather, reducing the need for newspapers in print.
