History of apple
The use of computer and mobile is increasing day by day all over the world. That’s why day by day new companies are coming in the market to provide facilities to the people in this field so that more and more people can use the products made by them.
Today we will talk about a mobile company that has ruled the hearts of people through its products and even after so many years, the trust of people has increased day by day in the field of its design, quality, and hardware. We are talking about the world’s largest and powerful American company Apple.
Start of Apple Company
history of apple
The use of computer and mobile is increasing day by day all over the world. That’s why day by day new companies are coming in the market to provide facilities to the people in this field so that more and more people can use the products made by them.
Today we will talk about a mobile company that has ruled the hearts of people through its products and even after so many years, the trust of people has increased day by day in the field of its design, quality, and hardware. We are talking about the world’s largest and powerful American company Apple.
apple company start
In the year 1975, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne thought of forming a company together and started with Steve Jobs’ garage, the company was founded on April 1, 1976 on April Fool’s Day and on January 3, the company was named Apple Computer Inc. At that time, they had only one goal, how to design and sell personal computers, but a few days after the start of the company, Ronald Wayne sold his 10% share for $ 800 for some reason and took the exit from the company. When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak took charge of the company, Wozniak himself designed a personal computer named Apple. It was an 8-bit desktop computer that identified the Apple company in the computer market.
Following the modest success of the Apple 1, Wozniak designed a microcomputer that was developed into the Apple 2, also an 8-bit home computer and one of the world’s first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products. It was introduced by Wozniak and Jobs at the West Coast Computer Faire in 1977, and marked Apple’s first launch of a personal computer aimed at a consumer market branded for American homes rather than for businessmen or computer hobbyists. After huge success, Apple III was launched in May 1980 for the purpose of competition from companies like IBM and Microsoft. On December 12, 1980, Apple Company launched its IPO. The price of which was $ 24 per share, after which Apple became a public company. currently worth more than $150 per share
Steve Jobs – a brand and controversy
Steve Jobs is not only recognized as the co-founder of Apple, but he is also considered the biggest name in the world of technology. Today Steve Jobs is a brand in itself. It was in the year 1984 when the company launched Apple 3 and Lisa. The computer was launched and both these products flopped badly, due to which there was a dispute with the company’s CEO John Scully in about 1985, then in the meeting of the board of directors, it was decided to remove Steve Jobs from his own company. Later, Steve Jobs resigned from Apple on September 17, 1985. However, five of his close co-workers had resigned from Apple along with him.
They say that struggle and failure only opens the way to success for a human being.
Steve Jobs, along with his other colleagues, made a new beginning as NeXT Computer, during which his luck also supported him and a big businessman, Perot, invested in his company, after this, on October 12, 1988, NeXT in an event. Launched the computer. However, NeXT was also very advanced like Apple, so it was also very expensive, due to which NeXT suffered a lot, after this Steve Jobs realized this and he made NeXT Commuter Company a software company, he also had a lot of success in this. Later, in 1986, Steve Jobs bought a graphics company Pixar Movie and partnered with Disney, after which Steve climbed the ladder of success and never looked back in his life.
Then came the period when the Apple company was running at a loss. In 1996, Apple talked to Steve to buy the Next company and the deal was finalized for $ 427 million. This time Steve Jobs returned to the Apple company as CEO, he As soon as he returned to the company, he canceled various projects and started a new project, which was named ‘Think Different’ i.e. ‘Think something new’. But during this time, under the guidance of Steve, the company launched Apple IPOD music player and iTunes. Under the leadership of Jobs, the company started growing again. In 2004, Jobs resigned from the post of CEO due to cancer and Team Cook became the new CEO of the company. become
After this, in 2007, Apple revolutionized the mobile world by launching its first mobile phone, while after this, Apple is continuously touching new heights of success by launching new products one after the other
Interesting facts
- Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen and Steve Wozniak his calculator to start the Apple company.
- For his last 15 years in the Apple company, Jobs took only $ 1 as salary. Despite this, Jobs’ total capital was more than $ 7 billion. Steve was the largest shareholder of the company.
- Apple’s first computer cost $666.66 to build.
- Even though Apple is an American company, 61 percent of Apple’s business is from outside America.
- In 2012, Apple sold 40 million iPhones. This means on an average around 110000 iPhones were sold per day
- Apple CEO Tim Cook emails his employees every day at 4.30 am
- Every third person working in the company is an Indian