Current Rane software is downloadable from its product page, and legacy software is available for discontinued units. Apple Inc. Wikipedia. Coordinates 3. 71. N1. 220. 15. 2W 3. N 1. 22. 0. 31. 18W 3. Apple Inc. Formerly called. Apple Computer Company1. Apple Computer, Inc. Public. Traded as. ISINUS0. 37. 83. 31. Industry. Founded. AVADirect_Custom_Computers_Logo.png' alt='Computer Hardware And Software Logos With A Box' title='Computer Hardware And Software Logos With A Box' />The StompLight takes the legwork out of stage lighting by putting the controls at your feetApril 1, 1. Founders. Headquarters. Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California, U. S. Number of locations. Area served. Worldwide. Key people. Products. Services. Revenue. US2. 29. 2. 34 billion1 2. US6. 1. 3. 44 billion1 2. US4. 8. 3. 51 billion1 2. Total assets. US3. Total equity. US1. Number of employees. Divisionsi. Phonei. Pad. Mac. Services. Other Products123Subsidiaries. Websiteapple. com. Apple Inc. is an American multinationaltechnology company headquartered in Cupertino, California that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. The companys hardware products include the i. Phone smartphone, the i. Pad tablet computer, the Mac personal computer, the i. Pod portable media player, the Apple Watch smartwatch, the Apple TV digital media player, and the Home. Pod smart speaker. Apples consumer software includes the mac. OS and i. OS operating systems, the i. Tunes media player, the Safari web browser, and the i. Life and i. Work creativity and productivity suites. Its online services include the i. Tunes Store, the i. OS App Store and Mac App Store, Apple Music, and i. Cloud. Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in April 1. Wozniaks Apple I personal computer. It was incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. January 1. 97. 7, and sales of its computers, including the Apple II, saw significant momentum and revenue growth for the company. Within a few years, Jobs and Wozniak had hired a staff of computer designers and had a production line. Apple went public in 1. Over the next few years, Apple shipped new computers featuring innovative graphical user interfaces, and Apples marketing commercials for its products received widespread critical acclaim. However, the high price tag of its products and limited software titles caused problems, as did power struggles between executives at the company. Jobs resigned from Apple and created his own company. As the market for personal computers increased, Apples computers saw diminishing sales due to lower priced products from competitors, in particular those offered with the Microsoft Windows operating system. More executive job shuffles happened at Apple until then CEO Gil Amelio in 1. Jobs company to bring him back. Jobs regained position as CEO, and began a process to rebuild Apples status, which included opening Apples own retail stores in 2. It again saw success and returned to profitability. In January 2. 00. Jobs announced that Apple Computer, Inc. Apple Inc. to reflect its shifted focus toward consumer electronics and announced the i. Phone, which saw critical acclaim and significant financial success. In August 2. 01. 1, Jobs resigned as CEO due to health complications, and Tim Cook became the new CEO. Two months later, Jobs died, marking the end of an era for the company. Apple is the worlds largest information technology company by revenue and the worlds second largest mobile phone manufacturer after Samsung. In February 2. 01. Apple became the first U. S. company to be valued at over US7. The company employs 1. September 2. 01. 7update and maintains 4. July 2. 01. 7update. It operates the i. Tunes Store, which is the worlds largest music retailer. As of January 2. 01. Apple products are actively in use worldwide. Apples worldwide annual revenue totaled 2. The company enjoys a high level of brand loyalty and has been repeatedly ranked as the worlds most valuable brand. However, it receives significant criticism regarding the labor practices of its contractors and its environmental and business practices, including the origins of source materials. History. 19. 768. Founding and incorporation. Apples first product, the Apple I, invented by Apple co founder Steve Wozniak, was sold as an assembled circuit board and lacked basic features such as a keyboard, monitor, and case. The owner of this unit added a keyboard and wooden case. The Apple II, introduced in 1. Apple Computer Company was founded on April 1, 1. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. The companys first product was the Apple I, a computer single handedly designed and hand built by Wozniak,67 and first shown to the public at the Homebrew Computer Club. Bad Disk Hard Repair Sector Software Store here. Apple I was sold as a motherboard with CPU, RAM, and basic textual video chips, which was less than what is now considered a complete personal computer. The Apple I went on sale in July 1. Apple Computer, Inc. January 3, 1. 97. Wayne, who left and sold his share of the company back to Jobs and Wozniak for 8. Apple. 1. 92. 0 Multimillionaire Mike Markkula provided essential business expertise and funding of 2. Apple. 2. 12. 2 During the first five years of operations revenues grew exponentially, doubling about every four months. Between September 1. September 1. 98. 0 yearly sales grew from 7. The Apple II, also invented by Wozniak, was introduced on April 1. West Coast Computer Faire. It differed from its major rivals, the TRS 8. Commodore PET, because of its character cell based color graphics and open architecture. While early Apple II models used ordinary cassette tapes as storage devices, they were superseded by the introduction of a 5  inch floppy disk drive and interface called the Disk II. The Apple II was chosen to be the desktop platform for the first killer app of the business world Visi. Calc, a spreadsheetprogram. Visi. Calc created a business market for the Apple II and gave home users an additional reason to buy an Apple II compatibility with the office. Before Visi. Calc, Apple had been a distant third place competitor to Commodore and Tandy. By the end of 1. 97. Apple had a staff of computer designers and a production line. The company introduced the Apple III in May 1. IBM and Microsoft in the business and corporate computing market. Jobs and several Apple employees, including Jef Raskin, visited Xerox PARC in December 1. Xerox Alto. Xerox granted Apple engineers three days of access to the PARC facilities in return for the option to buy 1. Apple at the pre IPO price of 1. Jobs was immediately convinced that all future computers would use a graphical user interface GUI, and development of a GUI began for the Apple Lisa. In 1. 98. 2, however, he was pushed from the Lisa team due to infighting. Jobs took over Jef Raskins low cost computer project, the Macintosh. A race broke out between the Lisa team and the Macintosh team over which product would ship first. Lisa won the race in 1. GUI, but was a commercial failure due to its high price tag and limited software titles. On December 1. 2, 1. Apple went public at 2. IPO since Ford Motor Company in 1. Success with Macintosh. The Macintosh, released in 1. In 1. 98. 4, Apple launched the Macintosh, the first personal computer to be sold without a programming language. Its debut was signified by 1. Ridley Scott that aired during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII on January 2. The commercial is now hailed as a watershed event for Apples success3. CNN3. 8 and one of the greatest commercials of all time by TV Guide. The Macintosh initially sold well, but follow up sales were not strong4. The machines fortunes changed with the introduction of the Laser. Writer, the first Post.