Thursday, March 31, 2016

Apple, 40 years of changing the world – rionegro.com.ar

Cupertino During its 40-year history, Apple has had many lights as shadows after a stratospheric rise, the company was on the brink of bankruptcy until Steve Jobs, the cofounder disowned, he returned to take the reins and make it the definitive word of the technological future that has changed the world.

Thanks to a mutual friend, the high school student 15 years Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and university, 20, met in 1971. Wozniak was passionate developer who excelled as a technical genius among other young computer hobbyists in Silicon Valley. A Jobs, by contrast, lacked the talent, but he made a very definite vision of how to change the world with technology.

In 1977, the venture capitalist Mike Markkula was cited with two young longhaired, who was then assembled his first computer in the garage of Jobs’ parents in Los Altos. In April 1976, Jobs and Wozniak founded the company Apple had with Ronald Wayne, who left the company shortly after deciding that, as a parent, could not take their share of financial responsibility.

Long before IBM, Intel and Microsoft laid the foundation of the personal computer, Jobs and Wozniak had implemented the idea of ​​a computer that could be used personally.

Jobs left his own company after internal fighting, but soon went to look. As CEO, Jobs renewed models of Apple computers. The first iMac (1998) was aimed at Internet and found a large number of buyers thanks to its unusual design. In 2001, the manager and his team stormed the music market premiering the iPod.

The teacher Jobs maneuver was in 2007 when, in a presentation in San Francisco unforgettable revolutionized the mobile phone industry showing the first iPhone. Apple’s new device soon unseat big companies like Nokia and Blackberry.

Only Google was able to hold him with your Android system and even managed to overtake Apple in number of units sold. However, until today the competition can only afford to dream of what I achieved in profits and sales for the iPhone. (DPA)

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