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Apple International
Apple Inc. is an American Multinational Technology Public Company.
It’s headquarter is Cupertino, California USA.
Services are designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software,
online services, and personal computers.
It’s best-known hardware; products are the Mac line of computers, the iPod media
player, the iPhone smartphone, the iPad tablet computer, and the Apple
Watch smartwatch.
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Founders
Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne on April 1,
1976, to develop and sell personal computers.
It was incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. on January 3, 1977, and was renamed as
Apple Inc. on January 9, 2007.
Multimillionaire Mike Markkula provided essential business expertise and funding of
$250,000 during the incorporation of Apple. During the first five years of operations,
revenues doubled every four months, an average growth rate of 700%.
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Values
Apple is the world's second-largest information technology company by revenue
after Samsung Electronics.
World's largest technology company by Total Assets.
The world's third-largest mobile phone maker.
On November 25, 2014, in addition to being the largest publicly traded corporation in
the world by market capitalization.
Apple became the first U.S. company to be valued at over $700 billion.
As of March 2015, Apple employs 98,000 permanent full-time employees.
Maintains 453 Retail Stores in sixteen countries and operates the online Apple
Store and iTunes Store.
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Rise of Apple Product as Brand
Apple’s First Product – APPLE I
Ordered by THE BYTE SHOP – Paul Terrell (Owner) 50 machines and pays
US $500 each (Present market price US $ 2.07 thousand).
It was sold as a Mother Board (with CPU, RAM and Basic textual-video
chips).
It was went on sale in July 1976.
APPLE II
Apple II introduced on April 16, 1977.
It was represented to the public at the first WEST COAST COMPUTER
FAIRE.
On the first day of exhibition, Jobs introduced Apple II to a Japanese
chemist named Toshio Mizushima who became the first authorized
Apple dealer in Japan.
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Rise of Apple Product as Brand
APPLE III
In May 1980, Apple III was introduced on an attempt to compete
with IBM and Microsoft in the business and corporate market.
APPLE LISA
Apple Lisa was introduced in 1983 to public as first personal computer
with a GUI – Graphical User Interface.
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5th Product – Macintosh (Success with Macintosh)
In 1984, Apple launched the Macintosh.
The Macintosh initially sold well, but follow-up sales were not
strongdue to its high price and limited range of software titles.
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Job Leaves the Apple - 1985
In 1985, a power struggle developed between Jobs and CEO John Sculley, who had been
hired two years earlier.
The Apple board of directors instructed Sculley to "contain" Jobs and limit his ability to
launch expensive forays into untested products.
Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT Inc. the same year.
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Apple Decline, Restructuring and Acquisitions (1991 – 1997)
In 1996, Gil Amelio – CEO, he made numerous changes at Apple including extensive layoffs
and cut cost.
Amelio chose to purchase NeXT and its NEXTSTEP OS and bring Steve Jobs back to Apple.
1997–2007: Return to profitability
Jobs acts the Interim CEO and with the design talent of Jonathan Ive, rebuild the Apple status.
On November 10, 1997, Apple starts up with Apple Online Store.
On August 15 1998, introduced Macintosh 128K – iMac, later with iPod and iPhone.
In first five months Apple sold almost 800,000 units due iMac modern technological featured.
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Apple Stock Share Price
Between early 2003 and 2006, the price of Apple's stock increased more than tenfold, from
around $6 per share (split-adjusted) to over $80.
In January 2006, Apple launched first laptop with an Intel Microprocessor, namely The MacBook Pro.
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