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Apple Computer, Inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, releasing the Apple I computer that same year. After Wozniak's innovative engineering and Jobs's marketing vision, the company quickly introduced the user-friendly Apple II. A key milestone was the 1984 introduction of the Macintosh, which popularized the graphical user interface (GUI) and began redefining personal computing with its mouse and desktop metaphors.