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.