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Apple Company Timeline

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  • Pre-foundation

    Pre-foundation
    Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started researching and setting up meetings to form the Apple Company.
  • Apple I and company formation

    Apple I and company formation
    They began their partnership on the road of their company. They had been friends many years before their company and it made the process even better. After forming the company, they started working on their first invention, Apple I Computer. They bought many parts and started right away with making the computer. The computer came with a bootstrap code to ROM which made it easier to start up. Evenually 200 of the Apple I´s were built.
  • Apple II

    Apple II
    After Apple I, they proceeded on to Apple II. There was not much of a difference besides the fact the TV interface was all redesigned and it included color and graphics.
  • Apple III

    Apple III
    Apple III was a problem waiting to happen. They took out the fan in the computer which caused it to overheated. Many of the Apple III´s were called back.
  • Apple IPO

    Apple IPO
    Apple was the biggest IPO because they were the biggest advertisements. When Apple became public it all advanced from there. They held a big meeting to talk about it and Steve Jobs made an emotional speech.
  • The IMB PC

    The IMB PC
    This came out after the 3 Apple Computers. Apple had many advantages and was still on the top.
  • Apple III new model

    Apple III new model
    They created a new model after it was a fail in 1980 but it was too late the damage was already done.
  • Xerox PARC and the Lisa

    Xerox PARC and the Lisa
    The Lisa costed $9,995 . Because of the high price, Lisa failed to penetrate the business market.
  • Macintosh and the "1984" commercial

    Macintosh and the "1984" commercial
    The Macintosh 128k was announced to the press in October 1983, followed by an 18-page brochure included with various magazines in December.[36] Its debut, however, was announced by a single national broadcast of the now famous US$1.5 million television commercial, "1984.¨
  • Jobs leaves Apple

    Jobs leaves Apple
    New Owners, Sculley and Jobs' visions for the company greatly differed.
  • Corporate performance

    Corporate performance
    Apple issued its first corporate stock. They started selling older computers from the Apple brand.
  • The Mac family

    The Mac family
    They added many new computers to the family. Mac was becoming a product of it´s own.
  • Early-mid-1990s

    Early-mid-1990s
    Apple then again got purchased by a new company.
  • iMac, iBook, and Power Mac G4

    iMac, iBook, and Power Mac G4
    While discontinuing Apple's licensing of its operating system to third-party computer manufacturers, one of Jobs's first moves as new acting CEO was to develop the iMac, which bought Apple time to restructure. The original iMac integrated a CRT display and CPU into a streamlined, translucent plastic body.
  • iTools Services

    iTools Services
    Apple started selling set of free web-based tools that included an email account called iTools.
  • Steve Jobs Returns

    Steve Jobs Returns
    Apples company makes a comeback.
  • Mac OS X

    Mac OS X
    Apple introduced Mac OS X (now known as macOS), an operating system based on NeXT's NeXTSTEP and incorporating parts of the FreeBSD kernel.[66] Aimed at consumers and professionals alike, Mac OS X married the stability, reliability and security of Unix with the ease of a completely overhauled user interface.
  • Retail stores

    Retail stores
    Apple annoced the starting the retail stores.
  • iPod

    iPod
    Apple anncouded 1st iPod.
  • iMac 4

    iMac 4
    It was a white desktop computer that was discontuied and replaced.
  • iTunes Store

    iTunes Store
    A music store on all apple devices.
  • iMac G5

    iMac G5
    It was a man-made block that was made from students at Virgina Tech.
  • Retail Store expanison

    Retail Store expanison
    They started opening up stores all over the world. For example, Japan.
  • mac OS X

    mac OS X
    Apple added a new updated graphic service.
  • iCloud

    iCloud
    Apples added the new up to data saving storage.