First and foremost, I’ll be discussing with you and sharing with you an overview of the historical

background of the Apple Company.

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Fun Fact!

The name Apple was actually credited to Job’s idea. It was conceived by Jobs after he returned from an
apple farm in Oregon. Apparently, he thought that the the name sounded “fun, spirited and not
intimidating.”

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Now, Apple Computers, Inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve
Wozniak. Jobs and Woz actually met through a mutual friend who later became one of the earliest
employees of the company. The two Steve’s got along thanks to their shared love of technology. They
both wanted to change the way people viewed computers. They wanted to make computers small
enough for people to have them in their homes or offices. Simply put, they wanted a computer that was
user-friendly.

They both have little to nothing to start on their dreams, that is why their initial office was at the garage
of Job’s home in Los Altos, California.

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Originally, there were supposed to be three of them. The other one is Ron Wayne who left the company
just a few weeks after it was founded. Wayne is the one responsible for the first logo of the company,
which is shown on the previous slide.

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The first accomplishment of the company is the launched of the Apple I, which is launched on the same
day the company was founded. They’ve built Apple I in Jobs' garage and sold them without a monitor,
keyboard, or casing, as you can see on the photos flashed in your screen.

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A year after its launch, Apple was finally incorporated, after a multimillionaire had taken interest on
their Apple I invention. Then on the same year, Jobs and Woz decided to introduce Apple II to the
consumers. With the introduction of colour graphics, Apple II was able to revolutionize the computer
industry.

Sales skyrocketed on the following years and a year after the launch of Apple II, Apple finally had a real
office with several employees. In the years that followed, revenues grew exponentially for the Apple
company doubling every four months.

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By the year 1980, the competition was growing difficult with IBM and Microsoft in the market. Apple
released Apple III in the same year to compete with these companies in the corporate computing
market, yet The Apple III was not as successful due to a design flaw.
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In 1983, Wozniak decided to leave the company. He sold most of his shares saying the company was
going in the wrong direction. On the same year, Job decided to hire John Sculley as a replacement for
the CEO position.

However, his decision of hiring Sculley backfired. There were a lot of controversy circulating about the
two of them and tension grew between. Jobs left Apple in 1985 and went on to new and bigger things.
He founded his own company NeXT Software and he also bought Pixar from George Lucas, which would
later become a huge success in computer animation of such movies as Toy Story.

The departure of Jobs in Apple has left a great impact. They have experienced a great amount of decline.
Apple's market share suffered slowly that some experts even believed that the company is doomed.
Sculley was later fired, and a lot of people took over his position after quite some time. There was
Spindler and Amelio. It was only at the term of Amelio that he was able to bring back Jobs to the
company.

It was the year 1997 that Amelio decided to purchase Jobs’ NeXT Computer and brought back Steve Jobs
to Apple. Jobs convinced the board to make him the interim CEO in the same year. The return of Jobs to
Apple was the time that the company rise to profits.

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The following year Jobs introduced the first Imac to the market. Through the years, Apple continues to
influence the markets with ground-breaking technological wonders to date, that most of us are users of.