The history of apple

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I have always been fascinated with computers and certain types of technology. But apple has always been of interest to me and how it has become what it is today.

Apple got its start in 1976 when Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs were trying to design a computer known as the Apple 1, in Jobs family garage. Wozniak tried to sell the Apple 1 in 1977 because in 1976 they thought the market for technology wasn't ready for such a major change so soon.

Apple began to grow when the duo started to design the apple 2. The apple 2 would include color graphics and comes in its own plastic casing. It would be the first real computer to come pre-assembled, and makes it more attractive to a larger group of consumers. After the Apple 2 there orders increased drastically.
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In 1979 Steve Jobs began to work on the design for the Macintosh. He got some design ideas from Xerox PARC in Palo Alto. Jobs said "I thought it was the best thing I'd ever seen in my life". Jobs tried to make the Mac in expensive and easy to use, but the Mac ended up being 1,000 dollars. And only printed paper in dot matrix. That was until jobs paired up with a man named John Warnock who started his own company named Adobe and knew how to print what you saw on the screen.

In 1994 Apple made the PowerMac which ran on the PowerPC chip that made it extremely fast. Jobs and Wozniak paired with IBM and Motorola for the PowerMac.

In 1995 Apple lost millions of dollars due to a man named Bill Gates and his creation called Windows'95. In 1997 Apple made an agreement with Microsoft that gave them a 5 year patent cross-line.

Ever since then Apple and grown immensely and has done better than any of there competitors.

The Venus Of The Sea

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Steve Jobs yacht was launched at aDutch shipyard on Sunday October 28, where the boat designed by Jobs and designer Philippe Starck was named "Venus," after the Roman goddess of love, beauty, prosperity and victory.

The ship was launched at shipbuilder Koninklijke De Vries in Aalsmeer, The Netherlands. Steves wife Laurene and their children, Reed, Erin and Eve were there to.

"People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things." This is what got Steve through the designing of his luxurious yacht.
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The family gave everyone of the workers who helped on the boat a thank you note, along with a gift for their appreciation. It was an iPod Shuffle with the name of the ship engraved on the back.

The yacht looked as it was described in the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson. In the book, Isaacson wrote about Steve showing him models and blue printe of the yacht, isaacson said it was "sleek and minimalist."

The yacht is between 230 and 260 feet long. It's a beautiful ship with teak decks and big panes of glass ceiling-to-floor glass. The boat has seven 27-inch iMacs that control the ship. A photo showed six of them lined up on a counter.

CNN quotes "The late Apple CEO was aware he might not live to see the boat launched, but continued to tinker with its design. Now, at its christening more than a year after his death, his quotes about the yacht become even more poignant. In the Isaacson book, Jobs said." Steve told a CNN reporter, "I know that it's possible I will die and leave Laurene with a half-built boat. But I have to keep going on it. If I don't, it's an admission that I'm about to die."
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Every Apple Has Its Blossom

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In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Wozniak started Apple Computers. The duo started in the Jobs family garage, and funded their entrepreneurial venture after Jobs sold his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak sold his beloved scientific calculator. Wozniak conceived a series of user-friendly personal computers, and—with Jobs in charge of marketing—Apple initially marketed the computers for $666.66 each. Jobs told CNN, "What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds." (CNN Quote).

The Apple I earned the corporation $774,000. Three years after the release of Apple's second model, the Apple II, sales increased by 700 percent, to $139 million. In 1980, Apple Computer became a publicly traded company with a market value of $1.2 billion on the very first day of trading. Jobs looked to marketing expert John Scully of Pepsi-Cola to help fill the role of Apple's president.

However, the next several products from Apple suffered significant design flaws resulting in recalls and consumer disappointment. In 1984, Apple released the Macintosh, marketing the computer as a piece of a counter culture lifestyle: romantic, youthful, creative. In 1985, Jobs resigned as Apple's CEO to begin a new hardware and software company called NeXT, Inc.

The following year Jobs purchased an animation company from George Lucas, which later became Pixar Animation Studios. Believing in Pixar's potential, Jobs initially invested $50 million of his own money into the company. Pixar Studios went on to produce wildly popular animation films such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. Pixar's films have netted $4 billion. The studio merged with Walt Disney in 2006, making Steve Jobs Disney's largest shareholder.

Despite Pixar's success, NeXT, Inc. floundered in its attempts to sell its specialized operating system to mainstream America. Apple eventually bought the company in 1997 for $429 million. That same year, Jobs returned to his post as Apple's CEO. Much like Steve Jobs instigated Apple's success in the 1970s, he is credited with revitalizing the company in the 1990s. With a new management team, altered stock options and a self-imposed annual salary of $1 a year, Jobs put Apple back on track.

In 2003, Jobs discovered that he had a neuroendocrine tumor, a rare but operable form of pancreatic cancer. Instead of immediately opting for surgery, Jobs chose to alter his pescovegetarian diet while weighing Eastern treatment options. In 2004, he had a successful surgery to remove the pancreatic tumor.

Apple introduced such revolutionary products as the Macbook Air, iPod and iPhone, all of which have dictated the evolution of modern technology. Almost immediately after Apple releases a new product, competitors scramble to produce comparable technologies.

In 2007, Apple's quarterly reports were the company's most impressive statistics to date. Stocks were worth a record-breaking $199.99 a share, and the company boasted a staggering $1.58 billion dollar profit, an $18 billion dollar surplus in the bank, and zero debt.

In 2008, iTunes became the second biggest music retailer in America-second only to Wal-Mart. Half of Apple's current revenue comes from iTunes and iPod sales, with 200 million iPods sold and six billion songs downloaded.


On October 5, 2011, Apple Inc. announced that co-founder Steve Jobs had died. He was 56 years old at the time of his death.

Jobs bio

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The life of Steve Jobs. Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, to Joanne Schieble (later Joanne Simpson) and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali. As an infant, Steven was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs and named Steven Paul Jobs. Clara worked as an accountant and Paul was a Coast Guard veteran and machinist.

The family lived in Mountain View within California's Silicon Valley. As a boy, Jobs and his father would work on electronics in the family garage. Paul would show his son how to take apart and reconstruct electronics. While Jobs has always been an intelligent and innovative thinker, which has always been an interest to me. His youth was riddled with frustrations over formal schooling.

Not long after Jobs did enroll at Homestead High School (1971), he was introduced to his future partner, Steve Wozniak, through a friend of Wozniak's. Wozniak was attending the University of Michigan at the time. In a 2007 interview with ABC News. "We both loved electronics and the way we used to hook up digital chips," Wozniak said.

After high school, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Lacking direction, he dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes. In 1974, Jobs took a position as a video game designer with Atari. Several months later he left Atari to find spiritual enlightenment in India, traveling the continent and experimenting with psychedelic drugs.

In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Wozniak started Apple Computers. The duo started in the Jobs family garage, and funded their entrepreneurial venture after Jobs sold his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak sold his beloved scientific calculator. Apple has always been something I've wanted to know more about.

Jobs and Wozniak are credited with revolutionizing the computer industry by democratizing the technology and making the machines smaller, cheaper, intuitive and accessible to everyday consumers.