A timeline shows us just how much Apple has changed the core of the tech industry in only four decades, bringing the abstract concept of computing from college campuses to our pockets. History has been changed, plain and simple!
Want to use this infographic on your site? History was made with each new innovation, whether it be the now-ubiquitous iPhone, the convenient idea of the personal computer, or the industry-creating tablet.
In our Apple timeline, you can see how much the company changed and how a few pivotal moments have revolutionized the entire technological world.
What is the history of the Apple company? The company was founded in a garage by two college dropouts on April 1, Steve Jobs, who since his death has been glorified in several films and documentaries, would leave the company but then return to help save it from foundering in the late s. What was the first Apple product?
It was a computer, more specifically the Apple I, which had distinctly convenient computer terminal circuitry and usability. It was able to display color graphics, which was exceptional at the time, and was considered to be one of the main three personal computers of In our Apple computer timeline with pictures, you can see that the Apple II and its successors would keep the company going throughout the s and early s.
Wozniak left Apple in due to a diminishing interest in the day-to-day running of Apple Computers. Jobs then hired PepsiCo's John Sculley to be president. However, this move backfired and after much controversy with Sculley, Jobs left in and went on to new and bigger things.
Through the rest of the s, Apple was still doing well and in it posted its highest profits yet. This was, however, mostly due to the plans that Jobs had already set in motion before he left, most notably his deal with a tiny company by the name of Adobe, creator of the Adobe Portable Document Format PDF. Together the two companies created the phenomenon known as desktop publishing.
Back in Sculley turned down an appeal from Microsoft founder Bill Gates to license its software. This decision would later come back to haunt him because Microsoft, whose Windows operating system OS featured a graphical interface similar to Apple's, became their toughest competition in the late s and throughout the s.
Over the course of a few years, Apple's market share suffered slowly after its peak in and by , experts believed the company to be doomed. It was not until , when Apple was desperately in need of an operating system, that it bought out NeXT Software Jobs' company and the board of directors decided to ask for some help from an old friend: Steve Jobs.
Jobs decided to make some changes around Apple. He forged an alliance with Microsoft to create a Mac version of its popular office software. Not long after this decision was the turning point for the company.
Jobs revamped the computers and introduced the iBook a personal laptop followed by iPod, an mp3 player, which became market leader. The iPhone, a touch screen cellular phone, introduced in was one of the world' most successful products and the company has released several new versions since. Other popular products include iPad tablet and Apple Watch. The popularity of iPhones made Apple the first company valued at one trillion dollars in and two years later it doubled that figure.
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With Jobs gone, Sculley had a free hand at Apple. At first, things seemed great, and Apple introduced its PowerBook laptop and System 7 operating system in System 7 introduced color to the Macintosh operating system, and would stick around with updates until OS X was released in The s would see Apple get into lots of new markets, none of which really worked out.
Possibly the most famous Apple flop of the '90s was 's Newton MessagePad, which was Sculley's own brainchild. Most software was written for Intel processors, plus they got cheaper and cheaper over the years. At the same time, Microsoft's influence was on the rise. Macs offered an excellent, but limited, library of software on expensive computers. Meanwhile, Microsoft was selling Windows 3. Between the high-profile flops and the costly decision to move to PowerPC, Apple's board had had enough.
After Apple missed on its first quarter earnings in , Sculley stepped down and was replaced as CEO by Michael Spindler, a German expatriate who had been with Apple since Spindler had the unfortunate job of following through with Sculley's big PowerPC mistake. In , the first Macintosh running on a PowerPC was released.
But Apple's fortunes continued to sag as Windows took off. Amelio's tenure was equally troubled. Under his reign, Apple stock hit a year low largely because Steve Jobs himself sold 1. On the July 4 weekend that same year, Jobs would stage a boardroom coup and convince Apple's board to install him as interim CEO.
Amelio resigned a week later. It was a new era for hardware and software, too. Jobs had Jony Ive spearhead the design of the iMac, an all-in-one computer released in And in , Apple finally moved to an Intel-based system architecture. Apple had two massively influential product releases in the s, beginning with the iPod in It blew other MP3 players out of the water and radically altered the way we listen to music. The iPod also launched Apple's white earbuds as a status symbol.
But the single biggest victory for Apple — and arguably the world of technology as a whole — was 's introduction of the iPhone. When it went on sale, customers lined up outside stores in the US to get their hands on one. The company has also expanded into services, which has helped fuel Apple's growth as iPhone sales have lagged.
Apple now offers its own music- and video-streaming services, its own payments system and credit card, and other subscription offerings in news and gaming. Loading Something is loading. Email address.
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