Few people know it, but more than half of Americans own an Apple product. The massive technology company was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The company was later incorporated on January 3, 1977. Apple is known as one of the most advanced technology companies in the United States. Apple is behind the greatest technological revolution in history. Apple has risen above all other technology companies. The company has a certain way of leaving customers on the edge of their seats waiting for the latest and greatest Apple product. Steve Jobs and Steven Wozniak had been friends since high school, and they were both very interested in electronics. After both dropping out of school, they both found themselves in a career related to electronics. Jobs found employment at Atari and Wozniak at HP. Wozniak was the original designer of the very first Apple computer. Jobs had an eye on the future and convinced Wozniak to sell the computer. Quite early on, on April 1, 1976, Apple had started. At first, people didn't take Apple very seriously. However, in 1977, Apple introduced the Apple II, which is when the company took off. The introduction of the Apple II opened the doors for the company. It was the first computer with a hard plastic outer shell, it was also the first computer with color graphics. The Apple II was essentially the beginning of the company. Another thing that gave the company a boost in 1978 was the Apple Disk II, which was just a simple, inexpensive floppy disk drive. With the increase in sales, the number of businesses also began to increase. In 1980, Apple had a few thousand employees. 1980 was also the year Apple released its last computer, the Apple III. It was in 1979 that Jobs and some engineers began working on ...... middle of paper ...... which received the license, believing that Apple was too restrictive on their agreements. Over the years, Apple's big problem was not just selling computers, but building them. In June 1995, Apple had backorders worth more than $1 billion and did not have the materials needed to make them. In addition to the current problems Apple is facing, Windows released its latest version of its software, Windows '95, which is too similar to the Mac and yet more simplistic. Very soon, Spindler was asked to resign due to the significant losses suffered by the company while Apple had recorded a loss of sixty-eight million dollars due to poor market valuation. Spindler was replaced by Gil Amelio, who was previously president of National Semiconductor. Throughout 1996 and part of 1997, Ameilo did his best to help Apple return to profit, but his efforts ultimately failed...