Apple's story 1975
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1950: Steven Woznek was born;
1955: Steven Jobs was born;
1972: Steven Jobs dropped out of school from the Reeds College, and he only studied a semester at the Reeds College. After completing the secondary school student, Jobs often participated in the HP. He became a summer staff of HP. Subsequently with the same job in HP, Steven Woznek, who has just dropped out of the University of California. At this time, Wowswick is small because of the sale of homemade devices for free remote calls. Jobs helped Walznek sold a lot of such equipment.
In early 1974: Jobs became a video designer of Atari. He made a trip to India with the money saved, where there was a spiritual enlightenment.
1974: Jobs returned from India, began to participate in the party of Woznek's "domestic computer club". At that time, Wavswick was keen on creating electronic equipment, while Jobs has begun to watch the market prospects of your personal computer. Jobs persuaded Waviz to develop a personal computer with him.
1975 - 1979
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1975: In Jobs's bedroom, Jobs and Woznet began to develop Apple I;
1976: Apple I development work is completed, and they created Apple I prototypes in Jobs's garage. Woznet introduced his Apple I to HP, but no one in HP is interested in his computer. After being rejected, Jobs thought they should produce Apple i, for this, Jobs sold his Volkswagen car, Wavswick also sold his programmable HP computer. They raised $ 1250 and began to produce Apple I motherboards;
April 1, 1976: Apple Computer Company was established by Woznet, Jobs and Ronwayne. Ron Wayne designed the first logo of Apple;
May 1976: Apple I is priced at $ 666.66, a computer store (Byte SHOP) purchased 50 Apple I;
In 1976: Ron Wayne left Apple computer;
1976 Autumn: Wowswick completed the development of Apple II.
1977: Rob J ANOV designed Apple's second logo, which is always used in the Apple logo (just in 1998). Mike Markkula invested $ 92,000 to Apple. Apple II is released, which is priced at $ 1295; June 17, 1978: Jobs' daughter Lisa Nicole is born. Later, an Apple computer named her name (Apple Lisa);
1979: Apple II is launched, its price is $ 1195;
Summer 1979: Start developing Apple Lisa and Apple Macintosh.
1980-1989
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1980: Apple III is published, depending on the configuration, its price ranges from $ 4340 to $ 7,800. Apple stock is listed, and it has achieved great success;
1981: Jobs joined to the Macintosh project group. Mike Markkula became the president of Apple Computer.
February 1981: Wavswick was injured in a plane accident, and then he was temporarily left to Apple and Macintosh project group (he did not return to the Macintosh project group). Wavswick married and returned to California University to continue to study electronics engineering and computer scientific degrees;
August 1981: IBM launched its first personal computer IBM-PC. Although IBM-PC is second to Apple II and Apple III, it has achieved huge success;
November 1981: Apple Computer Co., Ltd. and the Corphic Record Company reached a secret agreement: Apple's apple name can be used on computer products.
1982: The LISA database is completed and ready to be released. Apple's advertising agent Chiat / Day created Macintosh TV Spot ("1984").
1983: The LISA database and Apple IIE were released, and the prices were $ 9998 and $ 1395, respectively. Apple has become the fastest growing company in history.
Spring 1983: Re-created the advertisement "1984" for Macintosh.
April 1983: John Sculley, Pepsico's former president became the president and CEO of Apple.
June 1983: Steven Wozneke returned to Apple.
December 1983: Apple III released, which is priced at $ 2995. In the same period, the sales volume of IBM-PC exceeded 1 million units;
1984: Apple advertising "1984" is released in the beautiful theater in the United States;
January 22, 1984: "1984" is released in Super Bowl XVIII;
January 24, 1984: Apple Macintosh is released. MainTosh is equipped with a new revolutionary operating system (using a Macintosh graphical user interface), which is easy to understand "trashcan" and "note". Macintosh became a milestone in the history of computer industrial development;
In 1984: Macintosh is prohibited from selling Macintosh from the Pentagon. At this time, the techniques used in the former Soviet Union, Maintosh are still not known. At the beginning of 1985: Mac XL, Apple II enhancement release. Jobs left Apple, there is a problem between Jobs and Sculley, Jobs believes that Sculley does not understand the computer, and Sculley believes that Jobs is not good management. This is dangerous;
May 23, 1985: Jobs tried to cause Sculley to step down through the coup. He tried to get the control of Apple during SCULLEY attending the meeting during the meeting. In the last moment, his plan was to tell Sculley;
May 24, 1985: Sculley and Jobs have a fierce debate. Sculley requires the board of directors to choose between him and Jobs;
May 31, 1985: Sculley lifted Jobs's all power, only retaining his President's duties, but Jobs did not impose impact on any decision;
In 1985: Sculley became a new leader of Apple Computer. At the same time, layoff 1200;
September 17, 1985: Steven Jobs officially resigned from Apple. He expressed his plan to create a new company. He also informs them 5 Apple employees will create new companies with him;
September 23, 1985: Apple filed a lawsuit to Steven Jobs.
October 24, 1985: John Sculley signed the worst contract in the history of Apple. He agreed that Microsoft allowed Microsoft to use some Apple graphical interface technology if it continued to use Apple production software (such as Word, Excel). If Sculley does not make this transaction with Microsoft, Windows may never be intervened, because because it is similar to MacOS, it is obvious that Apple will easily win against Microsoft.
At the end of 1985: Apple released Macintosh Office, and used LaserWriter and AppleTalk network technology for the first time, in order to make Mac more attractive to small companies;
January 1986: Apple stopped the accusation of Jobs. Jobs agreed to do not hire Apple staff within six months and does not build computer companies competing with Apple Computer. Jobs creates Next. Steven Jobs purchased the Pixar Movie Studio from George Lucas, which costs nearly 10 million US dollars;
September 1986: Apple IIGS is released, which is priced at $ 999;
1987: 10th Anniversary of Apple. Mac SE and Mac II are launched;
January 1988: Microsoft released Windows 2.0.3;
On March 17, 1988: Apple puts forward a lawsuit to Microsoft and HP, accused they infringe the copyright of Apple, because in Windows 2.0.3, I use an icon similar to the Mac;
October 12, 1988: NEXT computer is released, which is priced at $ 6,500 (configured as 25MHz, 8MB memory, 250MB hard drive, FPU, Faxmodem, 17-inch display);
February 1989: Beetle Record Corporation accused Apple Computer in violation of each other's agreement with each other in 1981, claims that Apple has violated the provisions on the production of computers with the production of synthetic music;
September 1989: NEXTSTEP 1.0 released;
1990-1999
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NextStation is released; Apple launches Mac IIFX, Classic, LC and Mac Iisi four models;
1991: IBM and Apple The Alliance: IBM has developed a RISC processor (ie, PowerPC) for Apple. Mac Classic II, PowerBook 100, PowerBook 140, PowerBook 170, Quadra 700 and Quadra 900 release; Pixar Movie Studio and Disney Formation Partners, Pixar make movies and Disney promotion, Pixar and Disney share costs, share profit;
October 9, 1991: Apple paid $ 26.5 million, legal proceedings;
1992: NEXTSTEP3.0 released; Microsoft released Windows 3.1;
February 1993: Steven Jobs fires half of the staff of NEXT. He withdrew the hardware of NEXT, and announced that NEXT will be committed to operating the system;
April 1993: The first series PowerPC (601) processor is released by Motorola, 50MHz, 66MHz and 80MHz, respectively; the last NEXT Founder leaves next, Steven Jobs becomes the only leader of NEXT computer (Next Renamed NEXT Computer Company);
June 1993: Michael Spindler replaces Sculley to become Apple CEO, Sculley still serves as Chairman of Apple's Board of Directors;
August 2, 1993: Apple releases the first PDA (Newton MessagePad). Even if NEWTON MessagePad is more favorable than competitor's similar products such as Windows CE PDAS, Palm PDAS, it is still quite pitiful, the main problem is that handwriting text is often missed. Handwritten recognition is the key to Newton MessagePad to succeed. Apple's PDA department was removed only after four years of posting Newton MessagePad;
August 24, 1993: Tribunal ruling in 1985 on Apple and Microsoft lawsuits, ruling that Windows 2.0.3 does not constitute an infringement;
October 15, 1993: Sculley resigned from Apple's position as Chairman and CEO of the Board of Directors of Spectrum;
March 14, 1994: Power Mac6100, 7100, 8100 series is released;
June 1994: MacOS7.5 is released, Apple has taken an important step from 7.1.2 su3;
1994 Summer: Apple began to franchise macos;
December 13, 1994: Apple releases PIPPIN, a household multimedia system for online games, learning and entertainment; 1994 Winter: IBM and Motorola Release PowerPC 603 and PowerPC 604
February 1995: PowerPC 603E released;
May 1995: The earliest Mac compatible machine poured into the market; Disney released Pixar's first movie "Toy Story";
April 1, 1996: 20th Anniversary of Apple; Release 20th Anniversary Edition Macintosh
October 1996: Operating system SYSTEM 7.5.5 released;
December 1996: Apple acquired NEXT Computer Company in $ 430 million;
January 24, 1997: MacOS 7.6 released;
January 26, 1997: Because NEXT is acquired, Jobs returned to Apple. At the Macworld Conference, new MacOS strategy is launched (MacOS 8, Rhapsody);
March 1997: Bandai launched a Pippin atmark in Japan;
April 1997: Motorola released 300MHz PowerPC 603E;
June 1997: Gil Amelio announced that Apple's second quarter lost $ 740 million;
July 1, 1997: 20th Anniversary Edition Macintosh is available, this model is different from the previous model. The machine is at 250MHz, which is equipped with an integrated BOSE sound system. This Macintosh is limited by limited, its unique design style makes it a cherish of collectors;
July 1997: Gil Amelio resigned from Apple's president and CEO position;
July 22, 1997: MacOS 8 released. It is the first system that is really different from the Mac OS 1.0 desktop. A new generation of Macos 8 is more stable than its seniors;
August 6, 1997: Steven Jobs became an exact leader of Apple, and he announced that Apple and Microsoft formed alliances. Microsoft purchases $ 150 million Apple stock. Apple integrates Microsoft IE browser into the Apple operating system;
September 1997: Motorola Releases PowerPC750 (G3) processor. Apple purchases the license from the Mac compatible machine manufacturer;
September 16, 1997: Steven Jobs became Apple Iceo (temporary CEO);
November 1997: Bandai launched Pippin @ World in the United States, which is priced at $ 600;
November 10, 1997: Power Macintosh G3 and Apple Store are proposed in "Apple Event". Both are immediately successful;
January 7, 1998: Apple officially announced a re-profit, Jobs announced that the first quarter of 1998 was $ 47 million;
February 4, 1998: IBM Release 1.1GHz G3 processor;
February 27, 1998: Newton project is aborted. It is mainly due to the huge loss of the project (Apple has a total of more than 500 million US dollars from the Newton project) and the reduction of Apple product line. All unimportant and non-profitable product lines (such as printers and accessories) are suspended;
May 1998: IMAC and laptop PowerBook G3 released;
July 1998: Apple announced that the third quarter of 1998 was $ 101 million;
July 30, 1998: Motorola released 333MHz, 366MHz and 400 MHz PowerPC G3 processors; August 1998: IMAC orders more than 150,000 units;
August 15, 1998: IMAC listing, and becomes the fastest sales in history;
October 15, 1998: MacOS 8.5 released;
January 5, 1999: At the Macworld Exhibition in San Francisco, Apple exhibited Power Macintosh G3 Yosemite and five different colors of 266MHz iMac. The sales of Power Macintosh G3 Yosemite in 1999 was very popular. Mac OS X Server is released, but it is actually shipped until March.
April 14, 1999: 333MHZ third edition IMAC (revised D) released;
April 1999: QuickTime 4 Beta release. On Apple's website, you can download the "Episode One / The Phantom Menace" movie trailer in QuickTime 4, which creates the most recorded records in interconnect, more than 25 million downloads;
June 1999: New laptop PowerBook G3 Lombard is released. It is smaller than the previous notebook. 300MHz Power Macintosh G3 Yosemite stops production, new 450MHz Yosemite; Professional Video Editing Software Final Cut Pro is released, it is delegated to optimize PowerMAC's new fire line interface;
July 21, 1999: IBOOK is launched at the New York Macworld Exhibition;
August 31, 1999: The iBook order exceeds 140,000 units. Steven Jobs held the Seybold Conference in San Francisco to show the supercomputer Power Macintosh G4.500MHz G4 processor to run more than 1 billion floating point operations per second, and it is therefore listed by the US government as an injection weapon technology.
September 30, 1999: The second movie "Toy Story 2" of Pixar is released. Pixar also consolidates its first position in the world's computer animation video movie field. "Toy Story", "Toy Story 2", and "A Bug's Life" near $ 1.2 billion in the global box office income;
October 5, 1999: 350MHz, 400MHz IMAC, some of which have some DVD drive. IMAC DV and IMAC DV special edition of iMAC DV and IMAC DV;
November 5, 1999: MacOS 9 released. It brings a new feature of the enhanced Sherlock 2 such as Sherlock 1.
2000-2002
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January 6, 2000: Apple on the San Francisco Macworld exhibition showed its latest operating system Mac OS X, Mac OS X is a new operating system based on Rhapsody strategies. As a NEXT operating system, he is also a UNIX system. Apple launched a new "Aqua" desktop in Macos X. Mac OS X Public Test Edition will be released in the end of 2000, and its official version of the plan is released in January 2001; Stephen Jobs once again became Apple's CEO (no longer temporary CEO, although his title is still "Iceo "). Office software AppleWorks 6 released. The new features such as ITOOLS are newly introduced on the Apple website. Itools is Apple's free Web space service for Mac users and Ireview. February 16, 2000: PowerBook G3 PISMO, IBOOK Special Edition and 500 MHz Power Macintosh G4 released at the Tokyo Macworld exhibition. 400MHz of the AirPort wireless network is configured, 500MHzpowerBook G3 is also released in the same period. The IBOOK special edition is used along the color DV special edition of the IMAC DV, and its clock is 366MHz;
April 19, 2000: Apple announced the 2000 third-quarter income of $ 233 million;
July 19, 2000: At New York Macworld Exhibition, Apple demonstrates the new color IMAC series (IMAC, IMAC DV, IMAC DV , IMAC DV SE), new PowerMac G4 Cube and the two-handed Gigabit Ethernet card PowerMac G4 (Double 500MHz PPC G4 processor);
September 12, 2000: At the 2000 Paris Apple Exhibition, Apple launched a new iBook. The newly launched iBook has two models of different colors (gray and cyan) with a closing of 366MHz or 466MHz. In addition, the Mac OS X public beta is also released, and the Apple Store in the UK, Germany and France is started, priced at $ 30; Microsoft releases Apple version Office 2001, it is considered to be better than Windows version of MS Office 2000 .
September 29, 2000: Apple announced the income valuation of the fourth quarter after the correction. The earnings of earnings in the fourth quarter were $ 16.5 billion, the revised fourth quarter expected earnings were $ 110 million. Due to this statement, Apple stock fell 45 percentage points overnight, jumped to $ 29.1 $ 29.12 per share.
December 5, 2000: Apple expects the first quarter of 2001 (as of December 30, 2000) will lose $ 259 million. This is also the first loss of apple in three years.
January 9, 2001: At the Macworld Exhibition in San Francisco, Steven Jobs showed a series of Apple new products. In terms of hardware, Apple launched a new PowerMac G4 computer, and the new G4 is manufactured by pure titanium and is configured with a faster G4 processor and a built-in CD-RW or DVD-RW drive. Apple has also licensed DVD, released DVD Studio Pro and IDVD. In addition, Apple also provides free download for playing, encoding, and converting MP3 files on its official website; Apple also issued MacOS 9.0.4 upgraded MacOS 9.1. Jobs also announced that the release date of Mac OS X was March 24, 2001;
February 22, 2001: Apple demonstrates the new iMac series that configures built-in CD-RW CD-ROM drive at the Tokyo Macworld exhibition. The new series of IMAC has four colors: "Indigo", "Blue Dalmatian", "Flower Power" and graphite color; the clock is 400MHz, 500MHz or 600MHz. In addition, Apple also launched the upgraded version of G4 Cube. Since July 2000, G4 CUBE has been released, its sales situation has been not good. Apple is trying to increase the sales of G4 Cube series by increasing the built-in CD-RW and price cuts. March 14, 2001: Apple acquired PowerSchool companies with an Apple stock worth 62 million. Powerschool is a company specializing in data management software for schools. PowerSchool Server is based on Internet development, so you can access it via a web browser. Apple provides a complete system integration for the school by acquiring PowerSchool: Providing iMac for students, providing Power Macintosh computers for teachers, while Power Macintosh G4 Server can act as a platform for PowerSchool software and Airport wireless network;
March 24, 2001: Apple released Mac OS X 10.0 as scheduled. Since Apple wants to hold a grand Mac OS X 10.1 conference in the Macworld exhibition in July, this release is relatively calm. In the same period, a large number of third-party software issued by Mac OS X was released.
April 18, 2001: Apple announced the quarterly earnings of $ 43 million, of which Mac OS X has contributed $ 9 million. Applying 5 million IMAC offline, this achievement makes IMAC have become the most successful personal computer today;
May 1, 2001: New iBook released. The new iBook uses a white plastic outer body, a 500MHz G3 processor, which shows a resolution of up to 1024x768 pixels, and provides CD-RW options;
May 19, 2001: Apple's first retail store open. They are located near Los Angeles and Washington, respectively. Apple provides hardware and Macintosh software in its retail store, and also has a special area for Apple's experience, learning, and Apple's hardware and software demonstrations; Apple wants to make it currently 5% by opening a retail store. The market share is doubled, and another 25 retail stores have been opened in the United States at the end of 2001;
May 21, 2001: Apple announced the Mac OS X at WWDC 2001. In addition, Apple also released the WebObject 5 and a new 17-inch tablet Studio display while upgrading PowerMac G4 Server to dual 533MHz G4 processors. WebObject 5 is an primary tool for creating a web application;
July 3, 2001: Apple officially stops Power Macintosh G4 Cube series product line;
July 17, 2001: Apple announced the third quarter of 2001 to $ 61 million;
July 18, 2001: At New York Macworld Exhibition, Apple launched a new G4 computer. The main frequency is as high as 867MHz, with the double 800MHz processor has 12 billion floating point calculations per second. Apple announces Mac OS X 10.1 (PUMA) will be released in September;
September 7, 2001: Apple released 733MHz Power Macintosh G4 Server. Seventh Apple retail store opens in Ohio;
September 25, 2001: Long-term waiting finally ended, Apple released Mac OS X upgraded Mac OS X 10.1, which is faster than Mac OS X, supports CD burning, DVD playback, and new interface (AQUA); It also released Mac OS X Server V10.1; October 16, 2001: Faster 550MHz and 667MHz PowerBook G4, 600MHz IBOOK, and PowerMac G4 Server, which configures the double 800MHz G4 processor;
October 17, 2001: Apple announced the fourth quarter of 2001 to win $ 66 million;
October 23, 2001: Stephen Jobs to the public Promote Portable MP3 Player iPod, iPod configure 5GB built-in fire-free hard drive (with up to 1000 MP3 songs), 2-inch backlight LCD display, built-in digital amplifier and headphones. In addition, Apple also released tool software used to transfer MP3 files from the Mac to iPod;
November 2, 2001: "Monsters Inc." is released in the National Cinema. "Mons Inc." is the fourth cartoon of PIXAR. The film was released in the first week of the release of 63.48 million box office income;
November 10, 2001: IPOD release;
November 13, 2001: Airport 2 released, he added support for Windows PC, up to 50 connections and 128-bit compression technology. In addition, the Airport 2 base station configures a WAN Ethernet card for DSL routes;
December 4, 2001: Final Cut Pro 3 and MacOS 9.2.2 were released;
January 7, 2002: Apple on the MacWorld exhibition show new LCD IMAC, while showing 14-inch iBook and free photo editing software iPhoto;
January 16, 2002: Apple announced that the first quarter of 2002 was $ 38 million. In this season, Apple sold 746,000 Mac;
January 28, 2002: New PowerMac G4 release, new G4 clue up to 1GHz, and 2MB DDR L3 cache. Double 1GHz G4 is 72% faster than 2GHz Pentium 4;
February 12, 2002: Apple, Sun and Ericsson announced that it will use QuickTime linear technology to develop multimedia systems applied to cellular phones;
March 14, 2002: Mac OS X Apple Remote Desktop Release. Apple Remote Desktop is a management tool software based on Mac OS network;
March 21, 2002: iPod upgrades and 23-inch Cinema displays are released at the Tokyo Macworld exhibition; Apple announces that Mac OS X will support Bluetooth in April.
