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Apple Founded
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Apple 1
Apple Inc is founded by Steve jobs and Steve Wozniak. Their first product is the Apple 1 personal computer. this came with a built in keyboard and a 8-bit motherboard.
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Apple 2
A personal microcomputer that was released shortly after the Apple 1, its basically an refined version of it but it used color graphics and built in keyboard which made it stand out than others.
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Apple Lisa
This was also a personal computer but in a more modern way because of their first graphically driven computer which led to their high price with a mouse that controlled the interface and also keyboard as well.
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Macintosh Computer
This was their finished product of their first successful Graphic user interface, you could use your mouse to click icons that represented the app you wanted to go on. This also introduced moving,saving,and deleting files meanwhile the specs were also good with RAM of 198k.
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Apple Lisa Dincontinued
This was one of their groundbreaking innovations but sadly got discontinued 2 years after its release because of its price range and delays of being released. It eventually got people to lose interest and sales were low because of how high the product was at a high 5,000$.
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Jobs Leaves The company
Steve jobs left the company in search of making his own rival company towards apple. This caused a uprise of people that started as rumors and it came true. While leaving he also took some Apple employees that worked with him to start his own company
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Apple buys Jobs company
Apple Paid to get 427 million in cash,shares,stock options,and debt. While jobs wanted it all in cash his co-workers wanted some apple shares instead to compensate for the money. They also gave the considerable spots in their company as well.
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iMac G3
This personal computer was basically a redefined version of their original iMac (Macintosh) but Steve jobs was the man behind this. after the company was declining he revived it with this product which sold really well.
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iTunes Introduction
This was introduced with all iMac products and people were poking around looking at the music or redefined sound jam that people used back then. This grew a lot on people throughout the world.
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iPod MP3 player
This was one of the first MP3 player to pack 1,000 songs with amazing battery life of 10 hours. This boosted some of the music industry and the productions up to now.
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Safari Web Browser
This was introduced with all the devices they had up until this point it gave them a boost of popularity and production since people built off this nanmd the web.
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iTunes Music Store
This was another big innovation that was added in all the divices in that time, this allowed people to buy and download songs with 100,000+ tracks available when it launched. The very first week this came out it sold for than a million songs in such a short time.
https://www.wired.com/2010/04/0428itunes-music-store-opens/