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1. On April 1, 1976 Apple was founded, but it was the June 29, 1975 when Steve Wozniak tested the first prototype of the Apple I. He hit parts of an improvised keyboard and letters displayed on a TV screen. It marked the beginning of personal computing as we know it. 2. To start the company, Steve Wozniak sold his Hewlett-Packard calculator 65 for $ 250. Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen van for $ 1,500, but then had to pay half the repair of the engine. Adding their savings capital to found the company was approximately $ 1,300. 3. Steve Jobs thought of several names for the company before deciding on Apple, including: Matrix, Executek and Personal Computers Inc. None convinced him. In the biography of Walter Isaacson, Jobs says that was following one of its diets of fruit and “had just returned from an apple orchard. In the end I proposed Apple Computer because “it sounded fun, energetic and nothing intimidating (…) with that name adelantaríamos to Atari in the phone book.” 4. Ron Wayne, an engineer at Atari and friend of Jobs convinced Wozniak to quit his job at Hewlett-Packard. His argument: “A great engineer would be remembered only if allied with a big seller.” Steve Jobs offered 10 percent of the shares to Wayne.
The Apple II
5. The statutes were written on April 1, 1976 in the apartment of Ron Wayne. The document consisted of 3 pages and named as founders Steve Jobs (with 45 percent of the shares), Steve Wozniak (with another 45 percent of shares) and Ron Wayne (with 10 percent of the shareholding . 6. Ron Wayne withdrew from society because he did not believe in the future of the company. it sold 10 percent of its shares for about $ 2,300. had he continued with such participation today would have an estimated more than 3,000 fortune million. 7. the first large order for computers Apple was conducted by Paul Tyrrel, owner of a shop called the Byte shop. he ordered 50 units at $ 500 each. it was necessary to buy $ 15,000 in component to comply with the order. were delivered before 30 days. 8. the sale price of the first Apple machines was set by Steve Jobs at $ 666.66. they denied knowing that value was regarded as “the number of the beast”, but after the release prophecy movie that year, faced strong complaints. 9. Steve Wozniak started working on the prototype of the Apple II on 1 May 1976. 10. The first major investor Mike Markkula was Apple. She was impressed by the prototype of the Apple II and signed a credit line of up to $ 250,000 to boost growth of the firm. He stayed with 26 percent of the shares. 11. On June 10, 1977 was launched the Apple II. That year, 2,500 units were sold; four years later, the company reached sales of 210,000 units. 12. In May 1980, came to market the Apple III. It was a failure. Had 128 KB of memory and cost $ 4,340 and outfitting one Synertek 6502A processor clocked at 2 MHz. We had numerous design errors deriving a noticeable warming.
The Mac
The Macintosh
13. In late 1979, he started working on the prototype of the Macintosh. At the beginning it was called “Annie”. The aim was to build a computer for the masses, low price and easy to use. Should integrate the keyboard and display in one unit. Above all, he should have a graphical interface. 14. The IPO of Apple was given on 12 December 1980. They sold 4.6 million shares at $ 22 each. Its symbol was defined as AAPL. At the end of the day, the title was valued at $ 29 and the market value of the company was set at 1,778 million dollars. In 1977, it was valued at $ 5,310. 15. At twenty-five, Steve Jobs boasted a fortune of 256 million dollars. 16. In 1982, they released their first printer, the Dot Matrix, which was compatible with the Apple II, Apple III and the Lisa computer. It costs $ 700 and was able to print 70 lines per minute. 17. In January 1982, Apple released the Lisa computer. The company said it was an acronym for Local Integrated Systems Architecture or Architecture of Local Integrated Systems. However, Jobs had so baptized confess that the machine in tribute to his daughter, Lisa. 18. Mac on the announcement, which was issued in the ‘Super Bowl’ of 1984, had a budget of $ 750,000. Apple’s board rejected it. Some saw it as “the worst ad they had seen” and even ordered the Chiat / Day agency that sold the two advertising spaces that had been acquired (one sixty second and thirty one). 19. At the end, the commercial itself was issued at the beginning of the third quarter of the game between the Raiders and Redskins. More than 96 million people saw the ad. NBC, ABC and CBS channels and 50 radio advertising replicated short. It was directed by Ridley Scott, director of the film Blade Runner. 20. The Macintosh was introduced on January 24, 1984. She weighed 9 kg. It hit stores for $ 2,495 unit and included two programs: MacPaint and MacWrite. 21. On 31 May 1985, following a meeting with the board, Steve Jobs decided to retire from the company. He spent days listening to tapes of Bob Dylan, especially the song The Times They Are-A Changing.
The years without Jobs
The Apple Newton launched in 1993.
22. In the late eighties, Apple had 16 percent share of the computer market. In 1996, without Jobs at the helm of the company, he had fallen to 4 percent. 23. During the crisis, Michael Spindler, who was president of Apple from 1993 to 1996, tried to sell the company to Sun, IBM and Hewlett-Packard. 24. In 1996, Gil Amelio took over. In its first year, the company lost 1,000 million. The value of the stock fell to $ 14. Five years earlier, it was worth $ 70 per share. 25. On December 2, 1996, Steve Jobs returned to Apple stepping offices for the first time in eleven years, when he was dismissed. On 20 December, it was announced that Jobs would be a counselor, part-time president. 26. The Apple Newton, a digital assistant that looked like a tablet, was launched in 1993 and discontinued in February 1998. It incorporated a touch screen and a stylus. It was a failure because I could not recognize the handwriting input with precision and very expensive ($ 700 at the time). 27. The Macworld held in August 1997 marked the tacit Steve Jobs returned to Apple as a leader. During the presentation, Bill Gates’s face appeared on a screen. Giant It looked and did see insignificant Jobs and attendees. It announced an investment of 150 million dollars to help Apple and a commitment to produce software for Mac. After that announcement, Apple shares climbed 33 percent, to $ 26. 28. On September 17, 1997, Steve Jobs announced that he would take over as CEO in office or, in other words, interim president. 29. In October 1997, Michael Dell said that if Steve Jobs and Apple will hold the power, shut down the company and return the money to shareholders. Jobs asked Dell to have more “class”.
The new era of Apple
The iMac 1998.
30. In May 1998 he introduced the first iMac, the result of the relationship between Steve Jobs and designer Jonny Ive. He was released in August of that year for a price of $ 1,299. 280,000 units were sold in a month and a half. For Christmas, they had already achieved 800,000 units. It was the most attractive computer launched in the year, according to Forbes magazine. 31. On 19 May 2001 the first Apple store opened in Tyson’s Corners, near Washington D.C. A big sign saying “Think different” with a picture of John Lennon and Yoko Ono adorned the facade. 32. Phil Schiller was the one who invented the concept of ‘wheel’ to scroll through songs in the iPod. Jobs gave the order to create an interface where they could reach any function in maximum 3 clicks. The slogan to catch customers was “1,000 songs in your pocket”. It was presented on October 23, 2001 and cost $ 399. 33. The iTunes store was launched on 28 April 2003. Jobs was inspired by the success of Napster and other solutions such as Kazaa. He opened with 200,000 songs. Each song cost 99 cents. 34. The Power Mac G4 Cube was so seductive that was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. 35. Only until 2005, Apple computers integrated Intel processors. Since 1994, the company had used a chip called PowerPC, the result of an agreement between IBM and Motorola.
The iPhone and iPad
Steve Jobs at the launch of iPhone in 2007 .
36. When Apple began designing the iPhone, they raised two possible paths: one that used a wheel like the iPod to navigate version (called P1) and another who came to the multi-touch screen. 37. Since 2005, Apple began working on a tablet. As a result, they created multi-touch technology that would be first used in the iPhone. In other words, Apple began work on the iPad before the iPhone. 38. Apple promoted the creation of gorilla glass is used today in almost all mobile devices. The manufacturer, Corning, agreed to create the material because Jobs considered it imperative for the iPhone. 39. When Google created the Android operating system, Steve Jobs felt betrayed, because I believe that the leading search company was taking features created by Apple, such as the multi-touch screen and applications available on the interface. 40. In 2015, Apple became the first company to overcome a market valuation exceeding 700,000 million. That same year, Apple achieved the best quarterly results ever for a corporation. He managed gains of 18,000 million dollars and thus broke the record of the Russian company Gazprom, which stood at 16,200 million dollars. EDGAR MEDINA Technosphere @EdgarMed
40 curious facts of Apple in its 40-year history
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