Apple history

 On April 1, 1976, the American company Apple Inc., a producer of electronic equipment and software, was founded. It all started in 1971 when two young electronics enthusiasts, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, aged 21 and 15, designed circuits on paper to try to optimize them. Eventually Wozniak set out to build his own computer at his work, Hewlett-Packard (HP).

1979 - In April 1979, the Apple II is presented to the public, which carries the famous apple logo, in this case in colors, because it refers to the fact that it was one of the first computers to have a color monitor. However, other unconfirmed theories suggest that the logo alludes to Alan Turing, a mathematician who committed suicide after biting an apple poisoned with cyanide, and the colors were due to his homosexuality. It is also said that the apple refers to knowledge or "to bite the computer byte."

1980 - In that year the Apple III was launched. Despite being a better version, it had many problems such as overheating, becoming the company's first commercial failure, which is why the next equipment launches would bear the Apple II name. And on the other hand, on December 12, 1980 Apple plunged into the stock market causing many of its employees to become millionaires.

1981 - After the failure of Apple III, two promises to the company emerged: the Lisa, a new generation of computers and a possible rival to the IBM PC, and the Macintosh, an inexpensive and easy-to-use computer designed for the home market. However, 1981 was a tough year for the company, causing 40 workers to be laid off and even the president himself was replaced by Markkula and Jobs took over as director.

1983 - In that year Lisa became the first computer with a graphical interface and mouse, its high price (10,000 dollars) made it not sold and was the second failure of the company. After this Jobs was fired as director and replaced by John Sculley, vice president of Pepsi in his time, who would be the third director of Apple.

1984 - After the failure of the Apple III and the Apple Lisa, the company turned to Jef Raskin's little project first and Steve Jobs later: the Macintosh. After numerous delays and problems, especially with the software, which was not prepared until practically the last moment, and after the broadcast of a prominent television commercial during the Super Bowl celebration that year, a commercial directed by Ridley Scott and considered the Best TV Commercial of the 1980s by Advertising Age, 21 the computer was aired on January 24.

1985 - In 1985, a power struggle ensued between Steve Jobs and CEO John Sculley, who had been hired by Jobs himself two years earlier. Jobs was unwilling to be relegated to an irrelevant position at the company he founded (his office was moved to a nearly deserted building on the Apple campus that Jobs called Siberia) and began conspiring with Apple executives to take over. control. Sculley learned that Jobs had been trying to stage a coup and called a board meeting on April 10, 1985, at which Apple's board of directors unanimously sided with Sculley and Jobs was removed. of its functions as manager. A few weeks later Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT Inc. that same year.

1986 - 1995 - With Jobs in exile, Apple moved on, doing quite well in an era dominated by IBM and its "clones." These computers weren't special at all. In exchange for Apple's hardware, the IBM PC had an open architecture, meaning that its way of operating could be copied and anyone who knew about computers could make one without IBM forcing them to pay for royalties.

Why? Because IBM did not have such an "operating system," the privilege was owned by Microsoft. In the same way that the microprocessor is the brain of the machine, the operating system is like a central nervous system.

1996 - At the end of 1996, Apple had billions of dollars in losses, low morale, and a 3-4 percent market share. On a cover published by Business Week, there was "The Fall of an American Icon." A long time had passed since the days in Jobs's garage.

Faced with the Apple crisis, Amelio undertook actions aimed at ensuring that the company's financial position would allow it, at least, to have some future. In late 1996 he had the brilliant idea to go back in time and bring back someone named Steve Jobs.

1997 - In the summer of 1997, the one who walked out through the revolving doors of Apple's front door was Amelio. In the time since then, he has arranged a radical change of objectives for the company trying to maintain its positive profitability through one year. The heart of the new Apple was the iMac. An integrated computer and monitor, looking way ahead of this era. The iMac came in translucent and turquoise colors. Its curved lines made the 1984 Mac look junk and out of the century. The price was $ 1,299.00 for an Apple, it was cheap.

1999 - At the beginning of the year, due to strong sales of the iMac, which already came with new colors, Apple's market share reached 10 percent and its share price reached the highest level in many years.

2002 - In April of that year, Apple launches the iPod, a portable MP3 player that revolutionizes the way we listen to music, for this reason Apple also launches the iTunes Store, giving people an easy way to buy music online.

2003 - 2006 - Between these years, Apple was launching updates or accessories of all kinds, such as the iTunes store, which allowed you to buy music to store it on an iPod.

2007 - In December of that year, Apple introduced the iPhone, one of the first smartphones and for the first time without a keyboard. Crowds line up at stores to buy it.

2008 - Apple launches the app store for its iPhone devices.

2010 - On July 30 of that year, Apple launched the iPad, a touchscreen tablet PC that ushers in a new genre of mobile computing. It is an instantaneous phenomenon.

2011 - On February 24th the newest line of Macintosh portable computers that were introduced in January 2006, by Apple Inc. It is the higher-end model of the MacBook family, sitting above the consumer-focused MacBook Air.

On October 5, Steve Jobs died at his home in California around 3 in the afternoon on October 5, 2011, at the age of 56.

2012 - A line of mini tablet computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. It is a sub-series of the iPad line of tablets, with a reduced screen size. The ipad mini.

2015 - On April 24 the Apple Watch was launched, a smartwatch that connects to your iPhone to deliver notifications, make calls, send texts, and run apps.

2016 - Airpods are released; wireless Bluetooth earbuds created by Apple, designed specifically to work with your iPhone and iPad.

2019 - Macbook Pro with touchbar. The Touch Bar adds a row of multi-touch controls to the top of the MacBook Pro's keyboard. The Touch Bar also includes a Touch ID sensor on its right side, integrated into the Power button, which adds quick account switching and Apple Pay authorization to your Mac.

It is worth mentioning that between those years there were great launches, like all iPhones, until 12, and all versions of the ios operating system.