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Case summary Apple Inc. in 2012 Apple and its History Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple in California in 1976. Their mission was to introduce an easy to use computer to market, which led to a computing revolution and quickly became the industry leader by selling more than 100,000 Apple IIs in 1980. After IBM entered PC market, IBM PCs, which used Microsoft’s DOS (OS), gained more market share and became the new standard for the PC industry. At the same time, Apple introduced the Macintosh in 1984. However, Apple’s net income fell 62% due to the Mac’s slow processor speed and lack of software limited sales. In 1985, Steve Jobs was forced out and John Sculley took charge of the Mac. Under the direction of Sculley, Apple

History of Apple Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who vision was to change the way people viewed computers. Jobs and Wozniak both college dropouts wanted to make computers user friendly and small enough that the consumers can have them in their homes or offices. The two incorporated the company on January 3, 1977 in Cupertino, California.

The Apple I earned the corporation around $774,000 (Bhanderi). At the time this was Apple’s very first product and to be able to afford this creation Jobs had to sell his calculator in order to do so for $500. However, being their first creation they did experience a few flaws and glitches but were eventually fixed in later models to come. Three years after the release of Apple's second model, the Apple II, the company's sales increased by 700 percent to $139 million (Bhanderi). While jobs was busy with other projects such as NeXT and Pixar, without him Apple slowly lost popularity until he persuaded executive members to buy NeXT in 1996. He was established CEO in 1997, and he held this position until his death 2011(Friedman). Today many say the macbook and iMac are the best computers on the market and are most companies top competitors. The evolution of Apple is incredible considering that Jobs himself was at the time, a college dropout and this company has become was it is

Joseph Rivelli Miss Curtin English 9 1 December 2015 Steve Jobs and The American Dream The American Dream isn't an easy thing to achieve. The American Dream is when someone's hard work, attitude, and determination leads to success and achieving their goals and their happiness. Steve Jobs has achieved the American Dream because his attitude

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Steve Wozniak’s interest in electronics had grown stronger, and he began to regularly attend meetings of a group of early computer hobbyists called the Homebrew Computer Club. The knowledge that Wozniak gained from these Homebrew meetings, as well as his amazing talent, allowed him to build his own computer board, simply because he wanted a personal computer for himself. Steve Jobs took interest in this, and he quickly understood that his friend 's brilliant invention could be sold to software fanatics, who wanted to write software without the trouble of putting together a computer kit. Jobs convinced Wozniak to start a company for that purpose. Together they created the first Apple Computer on April 1, 1976.

Apple, incorporated. Created by innovative CEO Steve jobs (who recently passed away) and with the support of Steve Wozniak, is now a multinational corporation that’s focuses on consumer electronics, computer software, and commercial servers. With its broad line of revenue including: the apple computer, iPod, iPhone, iPad, and Mac apple strived for success with the idea to reach all consumers as its target market. The company started from Steve Jobs parent’s garage to its first building in Cupertino, California in 1977. The first computer (Apple I) was created in 1976 and sold to a local computer store called “The Byte Shop” offered at 500 dollars per assembled computer. This became the first computer to display text at 60 characters per

Steve Jobs was an American pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s along with Steve Wozniak. Jobs cofounded Apple from his parents’ garage in 1976, was overthrown in 1985, and returned to save the company from near bankruptcy in 1997. By the time Jobs died in October 2011 at age 56, he built Apple into the world’s most treasured company. Jobs funded Pixar and was also the founder and CEO of NeXT Inc. Wozniak is an American inventor, electronics engineer, as well as the computer programmer who developed the 1976 Apple I. He predominantly designed the 1977 Apple II, the development of its rare case was overseen by Jobs and Frederick Rodney developed the distinctive power supply.

The world was introduced with innovation and futuristic ideas by Steve jobs and he is a well reputed innovator all over the world. The Life of Steve jobs was full of his creativity and ideas towards the digital world. The ideas are perceived as good and bad by many people

Jobs was interested in machines early in his life (Pilar). Taking objects apart and seeing how they work was something he loved to do. To start off, Steve got a summer internship at Hewlett-Packard ("Steve Jobs: An Extraordinary Career”). Hewlett-Packard (HP) is a printer manufacturer. Jobs initially wanted parts. Later in 1974, both Jobs, and Wozniak worked at a company called Atari and designed video games and other products (Pilar). Both Jobs, and Wozniak were part of group of computer enthusiasts whose focus was building computers and computer chips (Pilar). Jobs and Wozniak wanted to make computers small enough for people to have them in their homes or offices ("Apple Computer, Inc”). In 1975 Steve and Wozniak set up shop in Jobs’ parents’ garage ("Steve Jobs: An Extraordinary Career”). In the garage they started out building the Apple 1, their very first computer. Their desire for better computers drove the Apple company into what it is today.

Steve Jobs’ first rise began in 1976 when he and friend Stephen Wozniak founded Apple Computers. Apple became very successful in the early years after their startup, aided in large part by the release of the Macintosh, the very first successful computer with a graphical user interface otherwise known as a GUI.

Lacking direction, he dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes at the school. Jobs later recounted how one course in calligraphy developed his love of typography.In 1974, Jobs took a position as a video game designer with Atari In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Wozniak started Apple Computer.

The development of Apple Inc. came during the unstable economic times of the 1970’s. Best friends and college dropouts, Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak pooled their electronic and business

A Short History Apple Computer Company got its start in the early seventies when the two cofounders wanted to create a computer for every person. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak got together and started creating one of the first personal computers. After CEO Steve Jobs was forced to leave the company and then return after ten years of working with other technical companies. In 1996, he made his return and they began to look into the music industry as there next big idea.

Organization Overview and Background This paper presents a case study of Apple Inc. Apple Inc. is a technology based corporation with emphasis on computer software and hardware (MAC and Apps), tablets (IPad), smart phones (IPhone), and mp3 plays, (ITouch). Apple Inc. has grown tremendously over the years and ever since 2001