How Apple Came To Be

How Apple came to be

Introduction

Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, on February 24 in 1955. Steven Paul Jobs was known as Steve Jobs, and he was a businessman, and tycoon sector of business computing, and entertainment U.S. It was co-founder, and chief executive of Apple Inc. they have maximum individual shareholder of The Walt Disney Company.

Discussion

Steve Jobs founded Apple in 1976 along with his college friend named Steve Wozniak in the garage of his home. After an internship at Hewlett Packard in 1974 Jobs was hired by Atari Inc. as a game designer. By then joined what would be his first partner, Stephen Wozniak the engineer, in whose garage created the Apple I, considered the first personal computer in history. In 1976, with the proceeds from the sale of his Volkswagen van, the company founded Apple Computer, based in the Jobs family garage. Steve Jobs Apple chose the name as a reminder of the days when he worked in the collection of your favorite fruit, the apple.

The Apple II, an improvement from the previous model, was introduced in 1977, becoming the first consumer computer. Apple Orders poured in and became the fastest growing company in America. Three years later, Apple went public with a price of $ 22 per share, which made Jobs and Wozniak millionaires. By then, Jobs acquired the reputation of genius, endowed with a creativity that allowed him to build a computer and simultaneously sell it.

After the Apple II, Jobs and Wozniak were engaged in the creation of the Macintosh, the first computer affordable and easy to use without needing to know information, so that Jobs is considered the true originator of the concept of PC (Personal Computer, PC staff). The launch of the Macintosh in 1984 signaled a ...