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Essay / Brief History of Apple Inc. - 909
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that defines, creates, and offers computer hardware, machine programming, and PCs. Steven Wozniak and Steven Jobs were high school partners. They had both been intrigued by gadgets and both had been considered outcasts. They stayed in touch after graduation and both ended up dropping out and landing positions with Silicon Valley organizations. (Woz for Hewlett-Packard, Jobs for Atari) (Company History) Another workstation club that could be vital to Apple's production began with simply a hand-written notice on notice sheets in some neighborhood colleges stating “HAMMER COMPUTER USER GROUP AND HOMEBREW COMPUTER CLUB.” Is it correct to say that you are building your workstation? Terminal? Television typewriter? I/O device? Alternatively, another computerized mystery box? Alternatively, would you say you save time through time management? » (Lusted page 23) The main gathering of the Homebrew Computer Club took place on March 5, 1975, in a carport in Menlo Park, California. It was from these meetings that Wozniak had an idea: he needed to create an easy-to-understand desktop computer that could be accessible to people who were not desktop enthusiasts and would not like to make their machine. (Lusted page 23) Wozniak had been tinkering with a workstation plan for some time when, in 1976, he sketched out what might become the Apple I. Employments, which had an eye for what was to come, demanded that he and Wozniak attempt to come up with the machine, and in April On January 1, 1976, Apple Computer was designed (Company History) Hobbyists ended up not considering the Apple I except...... middle of paper ......April 5, 1975, in a carport in Menlo Park. Wozniak had been tinkering with workstation design for a long time when in 1976 he described what might become the Apple I. Hobbyists eventually no longer considered the Apple I to be extremely important, and Apple only began to take off until 1977, when the Apple I started to take off. It appeared at a nearby desktop exchange show. On the other hand, the increase in transactions was accompanied by an expansion in the size of the organization and, in 1980, when the Apple III was launched. In 1981, things became a little more difficult because of the plane crash in which Wozniak was involved. Shortly after 1983, Jobs began courting John Sculley, then chairman of Pepsi-Cola. By April it was successful, and Scully became Apple's chairman and CEO. Despite being a successful businessman, it soon became clear that Sculley didn't know much about the PC industry..