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Apple Inc. is a multinational American technology company with its headquarters in Cupertino, California, USA. Apple is the largest technology company by revenue (US$365.8 billion in 2021), the largest company by market capitalization (as of June 2022), the fourth-largest vendor of personal computers by unit sales, and the second-largest manufacturer of mobile phones.
Along with Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Meta (Facebook), and Microsoft, it is one of the Big Five American information technology businesses.
On April 1, 1976, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Ronald Wayne established Apple in order to develop and market Wozniak’s Apple I personal computer. Jobs and Wozniak founded Apple Computer, Inc. in 1977, and the Apple II, the company’s subsequent computer, became a best-seller and one of the first mass-produced microcomputers.
In 1980, Apple went public, achieving immediate financial success. The company produced computers with novel graphical user interfaces, such as the original Macintosh, which was introduced in 1984 in a highly regarded advertisement.
Problems began to arise in 1985 due to the high cost of its products and power struggles among executives. Wozniak left Apple on good terms and went after other ideas, while Jobs quit bitterly and started NeXT, taking some Apple employees with him.
