Apple has its roots in a garage with 16 year old Steve Jobs and 21 year old Steve Wozniak. Wozniak, who would go on to design a computer using a $20 1-2 MHz microprocessor that used a TV as a display, and printed text at 60 characters per second (which was better than the competition of the time); and Jobs who managed to secure the funding, and a retailer who would buy 50 machines at $500 a piece; a huge profit was made. Jobs would eventually expand his company into the early multi-million dollar Apple Inc.
Apple went on to change the world of computers, introducing the mouse, the icon, and the concept of a Desktop computer.
In 1984 an internal power struggle had Jobs ousted from his managerial position, and Apple took less radical approaches. This soon led to the downfall of the company, and over the next 10 years it was driven down into near obscurity.... Until Apple acquired NeXT, a company which had been founded by Jobs. This brought Jobs back into the Apple fold, where he quickly worked his way to the top.
This is roughly around the time when we were all back playing Starcraft on Windows 95.
Again under Steve Jobs, Apple began to aggressively market newer, sexier, premium computers with slick interfaces. Bringing new and unique models to the market; the iMac and the iBook, and eventually the iPhone - which made other cell phones of the time, even Nokia's N95, look primitive and years out of date; and it also came at a cheaper price than the other Smartphones in its class. It took the market by Storm.
Quickly, and one by one Apple surpassed the tech giants: Google, IBM, and eventually Microsoft. Then in the last year it was challenging the position of John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil's successor Exxon Mobil/Esso. This week, the Evil Oil Empire fell beneath Apple; which now leads as the world's most highly valued company.
With new products coming to the market, such as iCloud; expansion into new markets, like China; and Apple's aggressive and brutally effective marketing strategies - it looks like they've got a brighter future ahead.
Did you invest? =P
Apple went on to change the world of computers, introducing the mouse, the icon, and the concept of a Desktop computer.
In 1984 an internal power struggle had Jobs ousted from his managerial position, and Apple took less radical approaches. This soon led to the downfall of the company, and over the next 10 years it was driven down into near obscurity.... Until Apple acquired NeXT, a company which had been founded by Jobs. This brought Jobs back into the Apple fold, where he quickly worked his way to the top.
This is roughly around the time when we were all back playing Starcraft on Windows 95.
Again under Steve Jobs, Apple began to aggressively market newer, sexier, premium computers with slick interfaces. Bringing new and unique models to the market; the iMac and the iBook, and eventually the iPhone - which made other cell phones of the time, even Nokia's N95, look primitive and years out of date; and it also came at a cheaper price than the other Smartphones in its class. It took the market by Storm.
Quickly, and one by one Apple surpassed the tech giants: Google, IBM, and eventually Microsoft. Then in the last year it was challenging the position of John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil's successor Exxon Mobil/Esso. This week, the Evil Oil Empire fell beneath Apple; which now leads as the world's most highly valued company.
With new products coming to the market, such as iCloud; expansion into new markets, like China; and Apple's aggressive and brutally effective marketing strategies - it looks like they've got a brighter future ahead.
Did you invest? =P
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