Apple Inc is an American technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California that designs, develops and sells consumer electronics like Mac computers, the iPod, iPhone and iPad. Apple was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne to sell the Apple I personal computer kit and is vertically integrated, designing their own hardware and software for their products.

2. What Is Apple?
• Apple Inc is an American multinational
corporation, headquartered
in Cupertino, California, that designs,
develops, and sells consumer electronics,
computer software, online services, and
personal computers. Its best-known hardware
products are the Mac line of computers,
the iPod media player,
the iPhone smartphone, and the iPad tablet
computer.

3. When Was Apple Found?
• Apple was established on April 1, 1976,
by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald
Wayne to sell the Apple I personal computer
kit. The Apple I kits were computers single
headedly designed and hand-built by
Wozniak and first shown to the public at
the Homebrew Computer Club.

4. Vertical Integration In Apple
Apple, overall are vertically integrated, as they
only work as one. For example when creating and
designing apple products, they use their own
resources to create the product. They also make
the hardware and software when creating a
product.