(1) Apple was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in Jobs' parents' garage, where they designed and built their first computer, the Apple I. (2) After some early successes with the Apple II and software like VisiCalc, Apple grew rapidly in the late 1970s and early 1980s. (3) In the 1980s and early 1990s, Apple struggled against competition from IBM and Microsoft as the PC became dominant, though they introduced important innovations like the first GUI computer and laptops.