Found company
Jobs, Wozniak, and Wayne sign Apple Computer into existence out of the garage of Jobs’ parents’ home in Los Altos, California. The trio sign a 45-45-10 percent agreement in Wayne’s apartment in Mountain View. The agreement reads:
Wozniak shall assume both general and major responsibility for the conduct of Electrical Engineering; Jobs shall assume general responsibility Electrical Engineering and Marketing, and Wayne shall assume major responsibility for Mechanical Engineering and Documentation.
Incorporation
Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne register the corporation Apple Computer, Inc. under the laws of the State of California. The official logo for the corporation is an Apple with a bite taken out.
IPO creates 300 millionaires
Apple launches its IPO on the NASDAQ selling 4.6 million shares at $22 per share. As soon as the bell rung in the NYSE about 300 millionaires were instantly created, some 40 of which are Apple employees and investors. Steve Jobs, the largest shareholder, made $217 million dollars alone.
Debuts Lisa
0 CommentsApple debuts Lisa, an update to its line of office computers, at its annual meeting in Cupertino, California. The Lisa sports a graphical user interface instead of complex command lines. Instead, users manipulate digital pictures on the screen with a hand-held device called a mouse. The machine has an internal memory of one million characters, about sixteen times than the average currently available personal computer. Two floppy disks are included, and the hard drive can store five million characters. The computer comes with six programs which include a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a graphics program, and an interface that allows users to draw picture freehand on the screen. The machine sells for $9,995.
Cuts Lisa price
0 CommentsApple cuts the price of Lisa from $9,995 to $8,190. Analysts had suggested the Lisa would have difficulty selling to corporations:
Lisa sales have been difficult into the corporate marketplace …
A drawback to the computer, which added to its low sales numbers, was its inability to communicate with large mainframe computers large corporations use.
1984 commercial
0 CommentsDuring the commercial break of the XVIII Super Bowl, Apple airs a sixty-second spot to market the release of its Macintosh personal computer to compete with IBM’s PCjr. The commercial cost $400,000 to produce. To air during the Superbowl, the company paid $800,000. The commercial features a grayed out landscape reminiscent of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. A colorful runner blasts a television screen with a hammer, transforming the drab world into the colorful world of Apple Computer, Inc.:
On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you’ll see why 1984 won’t be like “1984.”
Introduces Macintosh
One year on the heels of its Lisa debut, Apple introduces Macintosh at its annual shareholder’s meeting. The machine sports a graphical interface system that allows users to click on pictures with a device called a mouse. The development of the Macintosh is spearheaded by Apple chairman Steve Jobs, and the device is compatible with its Lisa systems, but not with its competitor IBM, which some analysts say could hurt sales because many corporations use IBM systems. The computer weighs seventeen pounds and is priced at $2,495.
Fired
Jobs is fired after a board meeting decided that his decision to drop the price of the 2nd-generation Mac was unacceptable. John Sculley, CEO, said to Jobs:
Steve, it’s not going to make any difference. The reason the Mac is not selling has nothing to do with the price or with the advertising. If you do that, we risk throwing the company into a loss.
iPod launch
Jobs introduces the iPod, a portable digital media player which can pack 5GB of music into a box the size of a deck of cards. The event is low key and is held at the Apple campus in Cupertino:
The biggest thing about iPod is it holds 1000 songs. Now this is a quantum leap because for most people this is their entire music library
iPhone 1st gen launch
Jobs announces the launch at MacWorld 2007.
We want to reinvent the phone. What’s the killer app? The killer app is making calls. It’s amazing how hard it is to make calls on phones. We want you to use contacts like never before.
iPhone 3G launch
Jobs launches the iPhone 3G with its tapered look and thinner edges. The faster cellular connectivity of the iPhone 3G allows for download speeds nearly as quick as WiFi and speeds that are 2.5 times as fast as EDGE. The new 8GB iPhone is priced at $199 with a new two-year contract, while the 16GB iPhone (which will be available in white at a later date) will cost $299 under the same terms.
We’re gonna take it to the next level
Introduced Stone to Forstall
Stone says Conway introduced him to Forstall, and this led to Twitter’s integration into the iPhone and iPad. Stone:
The relationship with Apple was a huge, huge deal for us.
Dies at 56
Jobs passes away surrounded by his loving family. He had been ill for a number of years suffering from pancreatic cancer and was 56 years old. Apples board of directors say:
Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives.
Funeral
Jobs is remembered by a small gathering of close friends and family attending at the Campus of Stanford Universities Memorial Church. Among the guests present are Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and Joan Baez. California Gov. Jerry Brown declares the day to be Steve Jobs Day in the state of California and went on to say.
His innovations transformed an industry, and the products he conceived and shepherded to market have changed the way the entire world communicates. Steve Jobs embodied the California dream.
iPhone 5 launch
0 CommentsApples’s latest smartphone is available in black or white and comes with either 16MB, 32MB or 64MB of storage. The phone is 18% thinner than its predecessor the 4S.The new iPhone 5, is the first Apple smartphone with a new four-inch screen and features the high-speed Long-Term Evolution network, also known as LTE.
We started with that first iPhone, and each and every year we introduce new versions. Each time setting a new bar, said Apple’s VP of marketing Phil Schiller. We’re gonna do that again today. Today we’re introducing iPhone 5.
Jony Ive Redesigns Things
Web designer Sasha Agapov launches the Jony Ive Redesigns Things Tumblr blog, poking fun at the Apple iOS 7 designer. It imagines how Ive would redesign iconic brands like Star Wars, Coca Cola as well as everyday items like bananas. It starts with a Dribbble post imagining an Ive redesign of Google:
Then it just became kind of chaotic—Twitter was full of great jokes and the design community started to show its disapproval by making quite funny mock-ups of new iOS icons and colors. So I made the blog to save and store all the good products of this new craze.
Android ‘dominates malware market’
Cook criticizes Google for not encouraging users to upgrade to a new version of Android. He says that nine out of ten iDevice users have upgraded to the latest version of iOS, but fewer than one out of ten Android users have the latest version, which introduces security risks:
This [upgrading] is particularly important for Android, which dominates the mobile malware market.
First Bitcoin app on Apple Store
Coinjar is the first bitcoin app to re-emerge on the iTunes App Store after Apple revises its policy regarding the virtual currency.
(Re)-Introducing CoinJar for iPhone in Australia & the UK. https://t.co/MSYAWeRkzI
— Asher Tan (@ashertn) June 3, 2014
Currently, Coinjar’s app is only functional in the UK and Australia.
iWatch release in fall
0 CommentsThe iWatch may be released in October, according to recent Wall Street Journal and Reuters’ reports. The watch will be available in several different sizes and will feature a 2.5 inch rectangular screen and 10 sensors to track health and fitness activities. Unnamed sources have been cited by both publications.
Bigger iPhones on the way
According to Bloomberg, suppliers in China are working on two new iPhones with larger displays. The display screens on the new phones will be 4.7 inches and 5.5 inches, and the phones will also be rounder and thinner. The current screens on the current 5S and 5C models measure 4 inches. The phones are expected to be at retailers around September, 2014.