Name: Apple Inc.
Founded: 1976
Founders: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne
Official website: apple.com
Apple Inc. is one of the Big Four tech companies that are dominating the market in modern times, alongside Google, Amazon, and Facebook. It focuses on just about everything it can, including computer hardware, software, mobile devices as well as different services, from news to gaming. The headquarter takes place in Cupertino, California, but the products and services are available all around the world.
It all started by the end of the 70s when Jobs and Wozniak created their first computer, which was almost lost to Wozniak’s boss at the time due to legal issues. Nevertheless, the computer started selling in 1976 followed by its successor and the official foundation of Apple Computer Inc. which was renamed to simply Apple Inc. almost three decades later. This marked an important moment for the brand, marked by the famous logo of an apple with a bite taken away. Over time, the company went through some rough patches but still managed to developed fast while the market of PCs grew in the 90s. At the turn of the century, Jobs became the CEO and started the Think Different campaign that led the company to become the world’s largest tech company by revenue in 2019, and one of the most famous brands since the start of the century.
Now, the company sells a much wider variety of products, including iPhone smartphones, iPad tablets, Mac PCs, iPod media players, smartwatches, AirPods wireless earbuds, HomePod smart speaker, as well as complementary software: macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS and as of recently, iPadOS. There are also many services such as Apple Arcade gaming service, as well as many more things that would make our list quite too long.
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