Apple 40th Anniversay: Apple’s Biggest Moments in their Run so far
Apple celebrate their 40th year anniversary this year. Let's take Apple's forty biggest moments so far.Apple changed the way people looked at smartphones.
The road to success was long enough to become on the world's biggest tech names. Nearly after the edge of a financial collapse with even a potential bail-out, Jobs did succeed in the end. April 01,1976 is the day Apple was formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Steve Wozniak was introduced to Jobs by a friend whom he said Jobs was interested in electronics and technology. That's when Apple created their first device, the Apple I computer. Only about 200 of them were built.
A year later, Apple II was announced and it was more successful than their predecessors. There was also a feud with the Beatles and now Apple Inc. where the former sued the tech giants for incorporating their name and logo. Both of them reached an agreement where the latter agreed to sticking the name only in tech business. Apple went public with shares began trading in 1980 at about an opening share of 22$. Today it's a market valued above more than 600billion$.
Later in 1981, an injury from a plane crash forced Steve Wozniak forced him to step down for a while, and finally left for the better of it in 1985 permanently. Later, John Sculley took over from PepsiCo. Later, their first Macintosh device was unveiled and in 1985, Jobs was kicked out by Sculley. Jobs had to start a firm of his own. Apple then sued Microsoft and Hewlett-packard(HP) claiming their operating system looked very similar to Apple's operating system later dismissed by a federal judge.
Apple then acquired Jobs' firm NeXT which meant he would bounce back to Apple and became the interim CEO. Later, the iMac debuted and Jobs was no longer the interim CEO.
In 2001, Apple announced their first retail store and the coming years, Apple introduced their famous portable music player, the iPod. That required purchasing music. This proved in launching their own music platform iTunes. In 2003, Things went too harsh for Jobs, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He waited about a year to inform his employees.
Apple then agreed to get their chips manufactured by Intel for their Macs. In 2007, Apple unveiled the iPhone which changed the way the world looked at a smartphone. This induced a market for an app store for businesses in 2008. Later that year, Jobs had a liver transplant. In 2010, Apple announced iPad what the non-apple world calls them "tablets". In 2009, Jobs went on absence though leaves to take care of his health, he also stepped down as CEO in a shocking move.
In 2011, Steve jobs was all just but a name. The man had passed away on October 05. Post-Jobs era was all about courtroom wars, and even some issues about taxes. Samsung who had been in long battle with Apple paid over 548millionUS$ in damages to Apple in a truckload full of coins.
Apple then acquired Beats by Dr. Dre paying more than 3billion$ in 2014. Apple's now CEO Tim Cook openly admitted to be a gay. Their next announcement was an Apple smartwatch a smart-wearable. It's been a massive record for Apple in their history with now their involvement directly being a tug-of-war with the US Federal Government over creating a backdoor for their iPhones after a terrorist's iPhone was unlockable without Apple's help.
