History of Apple Inc.
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Vallejo, CA
Apple Inc. by: Breanna
17 December 2011
EGL 001 Introduction to English Composition
1 Apple Inc.
Do you own an iPod? Or how about a Mac computer? Apple products are very well known all around the world. Even though they seem like such a great product, it took their creator Steve Jobs and many helpful employees to perfect the iPod to how it is today. Jobs endured financial loss, risk of failure, threats, and lawsuits, and success in only thirty-five years. He fought with all he had, even with his life with cancer. Steve Jobs will always be remembered as a visionary who changed the way the world lives in the eyes of computers. Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. They first started out in 1976 when Steven Wozniak and Steven Jobs were friends in high school and they had both been interested in electronics. They kept in touch after graduation, and both ended up dropping out of college and getting jobs working for companies in Silicon Valley. Wozniak had been designing computers for quite a long time and he came out with the Apple I in 1976, but, unfortunately, itwasn’t taken seriously by their consumers. After that, their team decided to come out with the Apple II, which became very popular because it was the first personal computer to come in a plastic case and include color graphics. This caused Apple to take off and become well known and sales multiplied. In early 1978, the Apple Disk II, which was the most inexpensive, 2 easy to use floppy drive ever, (at the time), made Apple sales further increase. By 1980, when the Apple III was released, they had several thousand employees, and they began to send computers aboard. When Jobs was declared to be a poor project manager and only owned 11% of Apple, he decided to start working with the Macintosh, which would start out as a $500
Vallejo, CA
Apple Inc. by: Breanna
17 December 2011
EGL 001 Introduction to English Composition
1 Apple Inc.
Do you own an iPod? Or how about a Mac computer? Apple products are very well known all around the world. Even though they seem like such a great product, it took their creator Steve Jobs and many helpful employees to perfect the iPod to how it is today. Jobs endured financial loss, risk of failure, threats, and lawsuits, and success in only thirty-five years. He fought with all he had, even with his life with cancer. Steve Jobs will always be remembered as a visionary who changed the way the world lives in the eyes of computers. Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. They first started out in 1976 when Steven Wozniak and Steven Jobs were friends in high school and they had both been interested in electronics. They kept in touch after graduation, and both ended up dropping out of college and getting jobs working for companies in Silicon Valley. Wozniak had been designing computers for quite a long time and he came out with the Apple I in 1976, but, unfortunately, itwasn’t taken seriously by their consumers. After that, their team decided to come out with the Apple II, which became very popular because it was the first personal computer to come in a plastic case and include color graphics. This caused Apple to take off and become well known and sales multiplied. In early 1978, the Apple Disk II, which was the most inexpensive, 2 easy to use floppy drive ever, (at the time), made Apple sales further increase. By 1980, when the Apple III was released, they had several thousand employees, and they began to send computers aboard. When Jobs was declared to be a poor project manager and only owned 11% of Apple, he decided to start working with the Macintosh, which would start out as a $500
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