The History of Apple By lazypants44 Apr 1, 1976 Apple Was Founded By The Steves 1977 Apple II was Invented 1984 Macintosh All In One Launches 1985 Steve Jobs Leaves Apple After Being Forced Out by Board 1991 First PowerBook Released 1994 First Power Macintosh Introduced 1997 Steve Jobs Returns Back To Apple As Adviser And Eventually Takes CEO Tile Once Again 1998 First iMac All In One Computer Reminiscent Of The Macintosh Introduced 2001 First iPod Introduced 2006 First MacBook Pro Released 2007 First iPhone Launch 2010 The First iPad and The iPhone 4 Sep 21, 2012 iPhone 5 and 6 series The iPhone 5 came out on September 21, 2012 and the iPhone 6 came out on September 19, 2014 Sep 16, 2016 The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Sep 12, 2017 iPhone 8