Apple-Background History
Introduction to Apple, Inc
Background History
Apple Computers Inc is an American based multinational company which deals with consumer electronics goods and computer software’s. It was incorporated in the State of California on January 3, 1977. The company was co-founded in 1976 by Steven P. Jobs and Stephen G. Wozniak. Mr. Jobs who is the company’s Chief Operating Officer came up with the name in early 1976. At the time, he was often visiting and working on a small farm, friends of his owned. It was a hippie commune where Mr. Jobs spent a few months of the year. The first two Apple logos designed by Ron Wayne, and then Rob Janoff were not successful. The current logo is a modification of the failed second logo which had a simple shape of an Apple, bitten into, with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. In 1997, Steve Jobs decided to drop the multi-colored Apple logo and replace it by a solid-colored logo.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak put together their first computer, called the Apple I. They marketed it in 1976 at a price of $666. In 1977, Apple II launched the company to success, earning Apple Computer, Inc over $100 million by 1980, the year the company first offered stock to the public. In February 1985, Stephen Wozniak, designer of the Apple I and an engineer in Yocam’s group, resigned. Steve Jobs’ operating role in the company as chairman was taken away and on September 17, 1985, he resigned from Apple, Inc. In 1996, Apple bought NeXT (a company founded in 1985 by Steve Jobs after he was forced to resign from Apple, that developed and manufactured a series of computer workstations intended for the higher education and business markets) for $429 million. The deal helped bring back Steve Jobs to Apple and he soon became the interim CEO after the directors lost confidence in and ousted then-CEO Gil Amelio. In 2000 Steve Jobs became permanent CEO of Apple, Inc.
Organizational Structure
Mission statement Apple designs Macs, the best
Background History
Apple Computers Inc is an American based multinational company which deals with consumer electronics goods and computer software’s. It was incorporated in the State of California on January 3, 1977. The company was co-founded in 1976 by Steven P. Jobs and Stephen G. Wozniak. Mr. Jobs who is the company’s Chief Operating Officer came up with the name in early 1976. At the time, he was often visiting and working on a small farm, friends of his owned. It was a hippie commune where Mr. Jobs spent a few months of the year. The first two Apple logos designed by Ron Wayne, and then Rob Janoff were not successful. The current logo is a modification of the failed second logo which had a simple shape of an Apple, bitten into, with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. In 1997, Steve Jobs decided to drop the multi-colored Apple logo and replace it by a solid-colored logo.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak put together their first computer, called the Apple I. They marketed it in 1976 at a price of $666. In 1977, Apple II launched the company to success, earning Apple Computer, Inc over $100 million by 1980, the year the company first offered stock to the public. In February 1985, Stephen Wozniak, designer of the Apple I and an engineer in Yocam’s group, resigned. Steve Jobs’ operating role in the company as chairman was taken away and on September 17, 1985, he resigned from Apple, Inc. In 1996, Apple bought NeXT (a company founded in 1985 by Steve Jobs after he was forced to resign from Apple, that developed and manufactured a series of computer workstations intended for the higher education and business markets) for $429 million. The deal helped bring back Steve Jobs to Apple and he soon became the interim CEO after the directors lost confidence in and ousted then-CEO Gil Amelio. In 2000 Steve Jobs became permanent CEO of Apple, Inc.
Organizational Structure
Mission statement Apple designs Macs, the best