By: Heath BarnacascelPrinciples of Business

Period 3

•The company was founded by 2 college dropouts •Apple was established on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne•These college dropouts established Apple to present the Apple 1 Personal Computer Kit•The Apple 1 went on sale in July 1976 and was market-priced at $666.66•From there on they started making new inventions and updates to the computers

•Ipod Touch- ranges from $229.00 to $399.00 depending on gig • iMac- ranges from $1199.00 to $2199.00 depending on size and memory•MacBook Pro- ranges from $1999.00 to $2799.00 depending on size and memory

•Apple headquarters in located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Cupertino, California•Right now, Apple creates 13,920 job openings •Apple opened for business in 1976 on April 1st

•Steve Jobs is the CEO of apple and also co-founder in 1976•He also co-founded Pixar animations Studio•Because of him Apple leads the country in innovation•They are also the leading DigitalMusic Revolution

IBM is a major competitor of the APPLE COMPANY

Dell is a major competitor of the APPLE COMPANY

Microsoft is a major competitor of the APPLE COMPANY

The reason that apple is so successful is because when they invent or update one of their products they make it while considering the wants of their customers

Another reason is that the products that they produce might cost a little much but are very high quality and can do many, many things

The last reason is that they don’t make an item and leave it, every year or so, they try to find some way to improve or update it

“Byte into an Apple”

"Soon there will be 2 kinds of people. Those who use computers, and those who use Apples."

"Touching is believing"