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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.
Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. Jobs was also the founder of NeXT and chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar.
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 ...
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]
On October 5, 2011, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs left his legacy after creating and growing the biggest company in the world from scratch in a garage. The man who brought us the MacBook, the iPhone ...
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]
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 ...
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.