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Apple Begins
Apple was established on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, to sell the Apple I personal computer kit. -
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APPLE
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Apple II
The Apple II is publicly introduced for $1295. -
Apple lisa
The Lisa Project, a $2000 Apple III-like computer, begins under Ken Rothmuller. Expected release was March 1981. -
Apple goes public
December 12: Apple goes public. Apple's share rises 32% that day, making 40 employees instant millionares. -
Macintosh Project
Jobs forces himself into the Macintosh Project, after earlier dismissing and often trying to cancel it. -
Jobs Quit
After Jobs forces Raskin out of the Macintosh project, he officially resigns. -
MAC PLAN
The Macintosh Introduction Plan, a list of popular developers and celebrities that are invited to beta-test the Mac, is written -
Coup
Jobs tries to force Sculley out of Apple by forming a coup against him. -
Power up-grade card
Apple releases the 66 MHz PowerPC Upgrade Card, the first commercial PowerPC produc -
iMac
Apple announces the iMac and new PowerBook G3 models. Two of the most innovative machines I've ever seen. -
Profit
Apple announces its first profitable year since 1995. Mac OS 8.5 is released to an ecstatic audience, promised Copland features appear. It is found that 43% of all iMac buyers are new to the Macintosh platform, an unimaginable number of new prospective buyers. -
Ipod
The original iPod was released in October 2001. Said to have 1000 songs in your pocket. -
Iphone
On June 28, 2007, during an address to Apple employees, Steve Jobs announced that all full-time Apple employees and those part-time employees that have been with the company at least one year would receive a free iPhone. -
Ipad
The iPad was announced on January 27, 2010, by Steve Jobs at an Apple press conference at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Jobs later said that Apple began developing the iPad before the iPhone, but temporarily shelved the effort upon realizing that its ideas would work just as well in a mobile phone -
RIP JOBS
Jobs died at his California home around 3 p.m. on October 5, 2011, due to complications from a relapse of his previously treated islet-cell neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer, resulting in respiratory arrest.
