Timeline: History of the Apple iPhone

Apr 1, 1976

1976

Apple Computer Company is founded by Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Ron Wayne.

Jan 18, 1977

1977

Apple Computer, Inc. is officially created after the company is incorporated. Mike Markkula invests $92,000 in Apple, with intent to invest $250,000.

Nov 18, 1979

1979

November: Jobs takes his first visit to PARC in exchange for allowing Xerox to invest $1 million in Apple.

Jan 19, 1980

1980

Summer: Jobs hires 15 Xerox employees to work on the Lisa Project.

Mar 21, 1981

1981

January: Jobs forces himself into the Macintosh Project, after earlier dismissing and often trying to cancel it.

Oct 25, 1982

1982

January 22: Jobs convinces Bill to write a basic interpreter for the Mac. This will become the failed ms basic
July 30: The applications bundled with the Lisa finally work together under the os for the first time.

Jan 19, 1983

1983

January 19: The Lisa is introduced for $9998. The Apple IIe is introduced for $1395, later aguably becoming the most successful and most popular Apple computer. It will be produced for 10 and a half more years.

Apr 8, 1983

1983

April 8: Jobs convinces John Sculley, tehn president of PepsiCo, to become president and CEO of Apple.

Oct 7, 1983

1983

October 7: The Macintosh Introduction Plan, a list of popular developers and celebrities that are invited to beta-test the Mac, is written.

Apr 23, 1986

1986

January: Apple settles law suit against Jobs out of court. Jobs agrees not to hire any Apple employees for 6 months, and to always make computers that are more powerful than anything Apple has to offer.
February: Jobs finishes selling all but one of his 6.5 million shares of stock to begin Next, Inc.

Jan 3, 1987

1987

January 3: Apple celebrates its tenth birthday. A coffee table book, So Far, later chronicles the experiences of the last ten years.

Jan 19, 1988

1988

October 12: the Next Computer is released for $6500. Apple's newest Mac was half as fast, with no peripherals for $1000 more.

Jan 24, 1997

1997

January 24: Mac, the first part of Apple's new OS strategy, is released exactly 13 years after the introduction of the Macintosh.
January 26: Steve Jobs, back as an "advisor" due to the NeXT deal, announces the future of Rhapsody, Mac OS 8, Allegro, and Sonata, the Mac, NeXT, and Apple in general at Macworld Expo.