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The iMac G3, originally released as the iMac, is a series of Macintosh personal computers that Apple Computer sold from 1998 to 2003. The iMac was Apple's first major product release under CEO Steve Jobs following his return to the financially troubled company he co-founded. Jobs reorganized the company and simplified the product line.
Alongside Next's products and software came Steve Jobs, Apple's co-founder who had been ousted from the company years earlier. Jobs initially was brought on at Apple as an adviser, but Jobs replaced Gil Amelio as interim CEO in 1997 and began a reorganization of the company. He reduced Apple's multitude of confusing computer options to just ...
He began his first year there in late 1968 along with Bill Fernandez, [25] who introduced Jobs to Steve Wozniak, and would become Apple's first employee. Neither Jobs nor Fernandez (whose father was a lawyer) came from engineering households and thus decided to enroll in John McCollum's Electronics I class. [25]
On April 1, 1976, Apple Computer Company was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. [25] [20] The company was registered as a California business partnership. [26] Wayne, who worked at Atari, Inc. as a chief draftsman, became a co-founder in return for a 10% stake.
The first model came in a blue-green hue, called “bondi blue and ice” by Apple, but it later was available in a rainbow of colors. It marked the first major Apple work by iconic designer Jony Ive.
At the Macworld Conference and Expo on January 10, 2006, Steve Jobs announced that the new iMac would be the first Macintosh to use an Intel processors. The introduction of the new iMac alongside the MacBook Pro was the start of the Mac transition to Intel processors, six months earlier than the timetable Apple established. [4]
In the first case, Jobs had no reason to feel particularly optimistic about Apple in 1985, given the circumstances of his ouster -- not to mention that Apple may have gone the way of the dodo bird ...
Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, is the fourth-richest woman in the world, mainly thanks to her late husband.