Apple

Evolution of the Apple Company

  • Apple II

    Apple II
    Designed by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, the Apple II became the company’s first hit product as noted by “Woz” in a recent interview with Bloomberg Businessweek. “We only sold about a hundred Apple I’s,” recalled Wozniak. “Of the Apple II’s, we probably sold a few thousand through the first year. And then [we designed] a spreadsheet program that let small businessmen do more work in one hour than they could do in 10 years with pencil and paper. Sales shot up.
  • Macintosh personal computer

    Macintosh personal computer
    The first model in Apple’s line of Macintosh personal computers and the first mass-produced desktop to feature a graphical user interface (GUI) and a mouse, the original Mac helped establish the user-friendly design ethos that characterizes so many of Apple’s products.
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  • Apple Scanner

    Apple Scanner
    In August 1988 Apple Computer introduced the Apple Scanner. It was their first A4 (8.5 in × 14.0 in) flatbed scanner. It was capable of a 4-bit image with 16 levels of grey in a maximum resolution of 300 dpi. The scanner could complete a full scan in 20.4 seconds. It shipped with a SCSI connection with an optional ADB port.
  • AppleDesign Powered Speakers

    AppleDesign Powered Speakers
    Along with the PowerCD, Apple released two versions of their desktop speakers: the AppleDesign Powered Speakers and the redesigned AppleDesign Powered Speakers II a year later. The original speakers came in Platinum gray to match Apple's desktop line, while the second generation were curvier and also came in a darker gray color designed to match the PowerBook line and PowerCD. Both were powered with an AC adapter and could be attached to any audio output source, with two separate inputs.
  • iMac G3 desktop computer

    iMac G3 desktop computer
    The first computer to be released following Jobs’s return to Apple, the iMac G3 was known for its bright, Bondi blue-colored, translucent casing and its unusual all-in-one design. The iMac also eliminated the floppy-disk drives that were found in the company’s previous computers and added USB ports. Besides being the first Apple product to use the “i” prefix in its name, the iMac was also the first major Apple product to be designed by renowned industrial designer Jony Ive.
  • Apple iPod

    Apple iPod
    Subsequently branded in 2006 as the “iPod classic,” the iPod was the first portable media player released by Apple. It featured a black and white LCD screen and 5GB of memory for storing approximately 1,000 audio tracks in MP3 format. The device featured a unique “click wheel” navigation interface and came with Apple’s iconic white earbuds.
  • Apple iPhone

    Apple iPhone
    As the source of over half the company’s annual revenue, according to its latest earnings report, the iPhone and its various predecessors are by far Apple’s most successful product. Featuring a user interface that relies primarily on a capacitive touchscreen, the iPhone reshaped the mobile phone industry and spawned countless imitators. Although there are many touchscreen-enabled smartphones available on the market today, Apple’s iPhone is still considered the gold standard of mobile devices by
  • MacBook Air

    MacBook Air
    Originally introduced as a premium version of Apple’s lower-cost MacBook, the MacBook Air has since become the company’s entry-level laptop, below the larger MacBook Pro. Besides being Apple’s first computer to offer a solid-state storage drive option, the thin design of the MacBook Air helped popularize the overall ultralight notebook category of laptop computers.
  • Apple iPad

    Apple iPad
    Apple essentially invented the tablet category when it launched its first iPad in 2010 and it has dominated the market ever since. The original iPad featured a 9.7-inch touchscreen that was ideal for viewing media content. In 2012, Apple released a 7.9-inch version of the iPad known as the iPad mini. The latest iterations of Apple’s tablets, the iPad Air 2 and the iPad mini 3, feature Retina displays and Touch ID fingerprint sensors.
  • Apple's Siri Personal Assistent

    Apple's Siri Personal Assistent
    Siri has been an integral part of iOS since iOS 5[4] and was introduced as a feature of the iPhone 4S on October 14, 2011.[5] Siri was added to the third generation iPad with the release of iOS 6 in September 2012, and has been included on all iOS devices released during or after October 2012.[6][7]