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Apple 2 1977
the company hit jackpot with 1977's apple 2, desktop computer with case. -
Macintosh
it was the first computer to successfully integrate two things that are now commonplace: -
Pixar
Steve Jobs bought Pixar -
Next
After the success of the Macintosh, Jobs was marginalized by Apple's board of directors, so he left to found a new computer company called NeXT -
IMAC
after NeXT failed to gain traction, Jobs sold the company to Apple and came back into the fold in 1996. Two years later, the company released a complete rewrite of the desktop PC — the candy-colored iMac. -
Apple stores
Apple retail stores began popping up in 2001 -
Itunes Store
iTunes was the first hint at Jobs' vision to turn the home PC into a "digital lifestyle hub". -
Iphone
During his keynote address at Macworld 2007, Jobs said Apple would announce three things: "A widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone and a breakthrough internet communications device. An iPod, a phone and an internet communicator." Of course, it was all three of those things in one — the iPhone. -
App Store
With the arrival of the iPhone SDK in 2008, developers could create their own native apps for the iPhone and sell them through the App Store built into iTunes -
Ipad
But Jobs got sentimental when showing off the first iPad in 2010. He said it was a culmination of years of work, starting with OS X, then iTunes, then the iPhone, then the App Store.
