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Apple Inc.

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    Apple Inc.

  • First established

    Apple was established in Cupertino, California by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne.
  • Apple's first product--Apple I

    Apple's first product--Apple I
    The Apple I, Apple's first product, was sold as an assembled circuit board and lacked basic features such as a keyboard, monitor, and case. Its price was $666.66 at that time.
  • Incorporated without Wayne

    Incorporated without Wayne
    Apple was incorporated January 3, 1977 without Wayne, who sold his share of the company back to Jobs and Wozniak for $800. And the company was named Apple Computer Inc.
  • First Personal Computer--Macintosh (Mac)

    First Personal Computer--Macintosh (Mac)
    The first Mac was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface rather than a command-line interface.
  • First Portable Mac

    First Portable Mac
    The Macintosh Portable was Apple Inc.'s first attempt at making a battery-powered portable Macintosh personal computer that held the power of a desktop Macintosh.
  • PowerBook 100 series born

    PowerBook 100 series born
    Apple introduced the PowerBook. But the success of the PowerBook and other products brought increasing revenue.
  • Birth of iMac

    Birth of iMac
    The iMac featured modern technology and a unique design, and sold almost 800,000 units in its first five months.
  • OS X operating system

    OS X operating system
    Mac OS X, is a series of Unix-based graphical interface operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc.
  • First Apple retail store opened

    First Apple retail store opened
    Apple opened the first official Apple Retail Stores in Virginia and California.
  • iPod series announced

    iPod series announced
    The iPod line was announced by Apple on October 23, 2001, and released on November 10, 2001. The series includes iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano, iPod Classic, and iPod Touch.
  • Intel-based Mac computers first announced to be produced

    Intel-based Mac computers first announced to be produced
    At the Worldwide Developers Conference keynote address on June 6, 2005, Steve Jobs announced that Apple would begin producing Intel-based Mac computers. the new MacBook Pro and iMac became the first Apple computers to use Intel's Core Duo CPU.
  • First iPhone born

    First iPhone born
    The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007. Meanwhile, the company was renamed as Apple Inc.
  • First Apple tablet (iPad) born

    First Apple tablet  (iPad) born
    Apple introduced their much-anticipated media tablet, the iPad running a modified version of iOS. And now the third generation of iPad was born one month agol