Apple Inc (Nasdaq: AAPL, LSE:ACP), formerly known as Apple Computer Inc, is headquartered in Cupertino, California, USA, and its core business is electronic technology products. At present, the global computer market share is 7.96%. Apple's Apple II promoted the personal computer revolution in1970s, and the Macintosh relay continued to develop in1980s. The most famous products are Apple II, Macintosh computer, iPod digital music player, iTunes music store and iPhone, which is famous for the innovation of high-tech enterprises. 20071October 9, 65438, Apple Computer Company was renamed Apple Company.

Apple was founded by Jobs, stephen wozniak and Ron Wayne in April 1976. Headquartered in Petinos, California, USA, it is located in the heart of Silicon Valley. 1In the spring of 975, Apple I was designed by Wozon. At that time, Byte's computer store bought 50 Apple I's, and the price was 666.66 dollars. 1976, Woz completed the design of Apple.

1977 Apple was officially registered as a company and launched a new Apple logo that is still in use today. At the same time, Apple also got its first investment-92,000 dollars from Mike Markkula.

1978, when Apple was preparing to go public, Xerox pre-purchased the shares of Apple1000,000 US dollars, and allowed Apple engineers to study the graphical interface of PARC operating system, which had long been regarded as garbage by Xerox. But Apple's engineers turned decay into magic and brought the graphical interface into a brand-new time and space. Apple1980 65438+February 12 went public, and in 20 12, it set a market value record of $623.5 billion. As of June 20 14, Apple has been the largest company in the world by market value for three consecutive years. Apple ranked 15 in the list of the world's top 500 companies in 20 14 years. On September 30th, 20 13, in the "Best Brand in the World" report of HarmonyOS Group, Apple surpassed Coca-Cola to become the most valuable brand in the world. In 20 14, Apple brand surpassed Google and became the most valuable brand in the world.

Apple specializes in developing, manufacturing and selling personal computers, servers, peripherals, computer software, online services and personal digital assistants. 1995 was the third largest PC supplier in the world, ranking 1 1 in the list of "Global Information Technology Companies 100" and 25th in the list of "Top 50 Global Software Manufacturers". 1994 and 1995, it ranks first in the global multimedia market.

Apple has many firsts in the history of microcomputers:

For the first time, there was a plastic shell;

Bring your own power supply equipment for the first time without a fan;

Intel Dynamic Memory; This is the first installation; For the first time, the motherboard is equipped with 48K capacity;

Playing color games for the first time;

Set the built-in speaker interface for the first time;

Install the game control key for the first time;

For the first time, it has high-resolution graphics function;

CPU and motherboard can enjoy RAM for the first time ... ...

Apple Ⅱ+,Apple Ⅲ, and later Lisa are difficult to reproduce the glory of Apple Ⅱ. 1979, Woz won the Hope Award. This award is specially set up for young computer scientists who have made outstanding contributions. It was named after Grace M Hope (1906- 1992), a famous female computer scientist and one of the earliest programmers in the world. Generally, only one person will be awarded every year from 197 1.

Apple Computer Company described the company's performance as follows: Apple Computer Company launched the personal computer revolution in the 1970s through Apple II, and the introduction of Macintosh completely transformed personal computers in the 1980s. Through its creative hardware, software and Internet technologies and equipment, Apple is committed to bringing the best computer experience to students, educators, creative experts and ordinary consumers all over the world.