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The company I chose is Apple Incorporated. This grand company, Apple, Inc., engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of mobile communications (iPhone), media devices (iPad and Apple Watch), personal computers (iMac and MacBook), Apple TV, and portable digital music players (iPod). When it comes to software applications, iOS, OS, X, and watch OS brands are offered, along with operating systems under the iCloud and Apple Pay brands. I’ve selected Apple because it is a power house in the technology industry and I hope to learn more about the company to gain a deeper understanding on how it was created and how it has come to be what we all know it as today. A greater accomplishment would be for me to someday create my own company and have …show more content…

Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak, along with their friend Ronald Wayne, established a company named Apple Computer. The partnership between Jobs and Wozniak began in 1971 when they first met at Hewlett-Packard (where Wozniak worked) through a mutual friend. The collaboration started in 1972 where they sold a device called “blue box” which allowed users to illegally make free long-distance calls on AT&T’s network without getting traced. Ex-Intel manager named Mike Markkula invested $92,000 in the company towards the end of 1976, around the same time; Apple Computer secured a bank loan of $250,000. They managed to get $600,000 in venture funding which set the company in the right direction to rise to the top. The logo that we all know to be “Apple” was designed in 1977, right before the company went public in …show more content…

iTunes elaborate library of songs from all different genres positively influenced consumers to purchase more than 5 billion downloads by 2008. The second PC, after the iMac, the MacBook Pro was released in 2006 and it featured Intel’s Core Duo processor and a 15in. screen, which increased to a 17in. screen the following year. The golden Apple years were 2003-2007, where the company’s stock price increased over 10 times. Apple Incorporated is still on the rise with its amazing

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