Company Apple

Apple Company was founded as a partnership in April Fool's Day, April 1, 1976 three men, who formerly worked at Atari: Stephen Gary Wozniak, 1950 born Steven Paul Jobs (1955-2011) and Ronald Gerald Wayne (1934). Company acquired the status of the corporation January 3, 1977 already without Wayne, who sold his stake for $ 800. Wayne was the first charter of the Apple I, wrote the first partnership agreement and drew the first logo of the company.

In order to establish the initial capital of the new company, Steve sold his Volkswagen and Steve Wozniak sold his "fancy" for the time calculator Hewlett-Packard for $ 500.

The first 30 years of Apple called Apple Computer Corporation. January 9, 2007 the word was deleted from the computers of the company name, which meant that the market is no longer limited to the electronics corporation among computers.

Steve Jobs has set the price of the computer 4K Apple I 666.66 dollars (in the course of 2011 is 2,572 dollars), making it exactly twice the cost. Fundamental Christians immediately raised a fuss about the fact that the 666 - it is the "number of the devil».

Origin computer corporation Apple I (1976), did not have a keyboard and monitor, and looked like a simple circuit board. Apple II was presented on 16 April 1977 and has become widely implemented as a home computer.

In 2010, the Apple Corporation has bypassed Microsoft and became the most valuable company in the world. In 2010, Apple was worth 222, 12 billion dollars, while Microsoft was evaluated "only" 219, 18 billion. In August 2011, Apple changed the Exxon at the site of the world's most valuable company.

In July 2011, the US Treasury has been operating balance of $ 73, 7 billion dollars. At the same time, the operating cash reserve equal to 76 companies Apple, $ 4 higher than the same article of the Government. While the United States spends $ 200 billion more than it collects in taxes, corporation Apple gets a large income.

The first logo of the company that created the Ronald Wayne, co-founder of Apple, depicts Isaac Newton, leaning against the apple tree. Figure accompanying line from a poem by William Wordsworth: "Newton ... The mind always wanders alone through the oceans strange thoughts." Steve Jobs felt that this logo was "too smart", and was later chosen bitten apple.

Jean-Louis Gass (1944), the former CEO of Apple Computer, suggested that the logo looks like a symbol of passion and knowledge, "... bitten apple with randomly arranged in strips rainbow colors. You can not even imagine a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope and anarchy. " In 1997, Jobs, after all, rejected the multicolored logo and replaced it with a completely white bitten apple.

Apple Corporation had approximately $ 625 profit from each of the 40 million iPhones sold in 2009. It has also been obtained for 164 dollars for each sold iPods, 1279 - for each Mac and 6665 dollars for each Ipad.

Most of the annual income of the corporation Apple receives from the sale of products developed in the last ten years. It iPods, iPhones, Ipad and aytyuns. Almost half of the annual profit, more precisely, about 30 billion accounts for products developed in the last four years.

In 1983 the corporation Apple got into the top 500 US corporations with the highest incomes under the 411 number, lasted only five years. This was the fastest growth among companies in the history.

On average, Apple stores sell branded goods at 93,150 dollars a day, which is equal to 3900 dollars per hour or $ 65 per minute.

In 2009, Apple sold 40 million iPhones - which means that the hour was sold 4853 devices per minute - 76 and 1, 27 iPhone per second. IPhones are sold in 89 countries.

In 1989, the first portable Macintosh was the first computer company Apple portable.

Today, the company receives from the sale of Apple portable hand-held devices and music recordings benefit twice as much than from sales of Apple computers.

In 2010, a British newspaper was made that one of Chinese enterprises for the production of iPods account difficult working conditions. It was noted that in some countries, enterprises Apple child labor.

Environmentalists have criticized Apple for not doing enough to develop special programs for recycling used electronic equipment, produced by the corporation.

The first iPhones were released in the US June 29, 2007.

IPhones Apple Corporation brings about 39% of gross income.

Steve Wozniak ("Woz" and "Wizard of Woz") has developed the first computers
Apple Corporation. Even though he left Apple in 1985 to found his own company, he still appears in the payroll of the corporation, and sometimes represents the company at the official events. During the life of Steve Jobs, Wozniak said: "Steve (Jobs) is not very savvy and electronics».

In 2010, sales of products of the corporation Apple reached 65, 23 billion dollars. If Apple were a country, it would be placed on this indicator 68 in the world.

The largest retail store Apple Corporation is on Regent Street in London and occupies 2320 square meters. The smallest Apple retail store is located in Santa Rosa Plaza in California and is located on an area of ​​50 m².

Get to work at the company store of Apple Corporation is extremely difficult. In 2009, Apple experts claimed that 10 thousand people applied for a job at one of the stores in Manhattan. Of these, only 200 have been employed.