The history and list of hardware from Apple

 Apple Inc.. is an American electronics company that was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. On January 3, 1977 Apple decided to form a registered company offered more security and safety. The Inc.. refers to the corporate form, Incorporated, an American company form, similar to a SA The company is based in Cupertino, California.

History

Apple is known for its range of Macintosh computers, iPod music players and iPhone smartphone. Besides the hardware itself develops its own software for many Mac OS X, but also for Windows. Late 70s, Apple is known for the Apple II, one of the first successful personal computers worldwide. The Apple II played a key role in the emergence of the PC market. Apple Inc. today enjoy. of a very recognizable logo, which they also frequently use to promote the company. Apple was late in 2009 by the American advertising magazine Adweek named brand of the decade. The Adweek editors said the success of the brand to CEO Steve Jobs, who "embodies the brand" and "a brilliant marketer" was mentioned.

Graphical User Interface
Apple has greatly contributed to the emergence of a window environment with mouse-pointer in modern PCs. When IBM was preparing to enter the fledgling PC market, Apple had to come with a revolutionary new product to resist the giant. The funds for this purpose would come from an unexpected angle. Apple late 70s had the reputation as a progressive computer company in Silicon Valley. This company did some ambitious Xerox PARC employees to win and they advised Apple founder Steve Jobs once the pioneering work on computer-interface to view the PARC. Since the board of Xerox saw little in the computer mouse and graphical user environment, they saw no objection to give Apple a look inside the PARC Center. In exchange for shares in Apple, Jobs was in December 1979 and guided his team at Xerox PARC and various demonstrations. After gaining the necessary inspiration Steve Jobs quickly realized the potential of the GUI concepts developed by Xerox engineers. After that visit, he established teams within Apple, led by Jef Raskin a full-use, graphical, environment could develop. This resulted initially in the Apple Lisa, but came to maturity in 1984 with the introduction of the Macintosh. The graphical user interface in Apple computers, later given the name of Mac OS.

Apple does not own the original GUI concept, but was the first to successfully implement a computer user. It has many refinements and enhancements Apple made later by many other manufacturers would be taken. Thus the familiar Microsoft Windows operating system supposedly taken many ideas from Apple, which would later result in a lengthy lawsuit.

Design and Integration
Since the introduction of the iMac in 1998 was the attention to the design of Apple products are more widely known pays. This largely thanks to the designs of Jonathan Ive, who was knighted in 2005 for his work by the British Queen. It is no exaggeration to say that the design of Apple products a huge impact on the industry and has in the past repeatedly offered new direction. Since 2000 Apple has to develop broader and his knowledge of computers, operating systems, marketing, ergonomics and design used to develop include the iTunes Store and iPod music player. In 2001 Apple introduced a completely new operating system called Mac OS X. The operating system is only for Macintosh computers and is based on NeXTSTEP and the older Mac OS 9. The current version is Mac OS X v10.6, nicknamed Snow Leopard, and was introduced on August 28, 2009. At the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco on January 10, 2006 Apple introduced its first Macintosh computers with Intel x86 processors. At the Worldwide Developers Conference on August 7, 2006 was the launch of the Mac Pro completed the transition to Intel processors. At the Expo on January 9, 2007, Apple introduced the iPhone, the new Mac mini and Apple TV.

Naming
Steve Jobs was in the seventies and fruitariër came in their own words so the idea the company "Apple" to as:

I was actually a fruit arian at that point in time. I ate only vegetables. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a Fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o'clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that's why we're called Apple.

At the MacWorld Expo on January 9, 2007 was formally announced that the company would change its name from Apple Computer, Inc.. to Apple Inc.. to clearly indicate that the company's product offering includes more than just computers.

CEO's over the years
1977 - 1981: Michael Scott
1981 - 1983: Mike Markkula
1983 - 1993: John Sculley
1993 - 1996: Michael Spindler
1996 - 1997: Gil Amelio
1997 - 2009: Steve Jobs (on medical leave until the end of June 2009)
2009 - 2009: Tim Cook (temporarily replacing Steve Jobs)
2009 - Present: Steve Jobs

Hardware
 
Consumer computers:
-iMac, an all-in-one desktop computer where the computer is combined with the screen
-Mac Mini, a compact and cheaper for new Mac users (mn 'switchers') a taste of Mac OS X
-eMac, iMac variant, intended for education (discontinued)

Laptops:
-iBook, a laptop for the consumer (discontinued)
Power-Book, a notebook for the professional market (discontinued)
-Apple MacBook, the successor to the iBook
-Apple MacBook Air, thinnest laptop to date
-MacBook Pro, the successor to the PowerBook

Professional Market:
-Power Mac, a desktop computer for the professional market (discontinued)
Mac-Pro, the successor to the PowerMac (since the introduction of Intel chips)

Server:
-Xserve, a server for the professional market

iPod & iPhone:
-iPod classic, a portable device for the storage and playback of music, photos or videos (120 GB)
-iPod nano, a smaller version of the iPod with a smaller storage capacity (8 and 16 GB)
-iPod shuffle, a very small display with 4 GB iPod without storage
-iPod touch, an iPod with a touchscreen and equipped with WiFi, running on a variant of its OS X (8, 32 and 64 GB)
-iPod mini, the predecessor of the iPod nano, with a capacity of 4-6 GB. (Discontinued)
-iPhone, a combination of a widescreen iPod and a smartphone, running on a version of its OS X with a storage capacity of 4, 8, 16 and 32 GB. Two months after the launch of the first iPhone disappeared 4 GB version.

Other:
-Apple-TV, a media player, which media from iTunes, YouTube and Flickr can stream wirelessly to the TV
-iSight, webcam with built-in microphone that can be placed on the screen (discontinued, but is built into the MacBook (Pro) iMac) and Apple LED Cinema Display
-Newton, a PDA that was canceled in 1996 (discontinued)
-Apple Cinema Display, an aluminum screen 50 or 75 cm (or 20 "or 30") in the style of Apple. The 20 "model has been taken out of production.
-LED Apple Cinema Display, Display a gloss of 61 cm (or 24) in the simple style of Apple.
-Time Capsule is a wireless external hard disk that allows the software to use Time Machine wirelessly and automatically backups.
-Airport wireless router to create a network.
-Mighty Mouse computer mouse with several buttons and a scroll ball.
-Magic-Mouse computer mouse without buttons or scroll ball. The mouse is made entirely with touch technology.
-Remote-A simple and handy remote control for most Apple equipment.
-keyboards Apple has over the years produced many keyboards.