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The company offers its products online and has a chain of retail stores known as Apple Stores. Founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne created Apple Computer Co. on April 1, 1976, to market Wozniak's Apple I desktop computer, [2] and Jobs and Wozniak incorporated the company on January 3, 1977, [3] in Cupertino, California.
He was a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with his early business partner and fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955 and adopted shortly afterwards. He attended Reed College in 1972 before withdrawing that same year.
On April 1, 1976, Jobs and Wozniak formed the Apple Computer Company (now called Apple Inc.) along with administrative supervisor Ronald Wayne, whose participation in the new venture was short-lived. The two decided on the name "Apple" shortly after Jobs returned from Oregon and told Wozniak about his time spent on an apple orchard there. [41]
Shortly after founding the company, Wayne sold off his 10% stake, leaving Jobs and Wozniak. Wozniak created Apple's first device, the Apple I, building the original by hand with a wooden casing as ...
Drexler sat on the board of Apple for 16 years during a period when Gap was valued at $15 billion — at the time, a bigger market cap than Apple. Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976, was ousted in 1985 ...
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were born the same year. Both dropped out of college. Both started companies with good friends: Gates founded Microsoft with Paul Allen in April 1975; Jobs founded Apple
In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple in Jobs's parents' home on Crist Drive in Los Altos, California. [8] Wozniak called the popular belief that the company was founded in the garage "a bit of a myth", [9] although they moved some operations to the garage when the bedroom became too crowded. [10]
The Apple Computer 1 (Apple-1 [a]), later known predominantly as the Apple I (written with a Roman numeral), [b] is an 8-bit motherboard-only personal computer designed by Steve Wozniak [5] [6] and released by the Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) in 1976.