Personally, only I knew is that The Apple Computer Inc was founded by Steve Jobs and and that is a very innovative and sucessful computer and smarphones manufacter today. So I had to go at Answers.com
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Microcomputer design and manufacturing company, the first successful personal-computer company. It was founded in 1976 by Steven P. Jobs and Stephen G. Wozniak, whose first computer was manufactured in the Jobs family's garage. The Apple II (1977), with its plastic case and colour graphics, launched the company to success, earning Apple over $100 million by 1980, the year the company first offered stock to the public. The 1981 introduction of IBM's PC, running a Microsoft Corp. operating system, marked the beginning of long-term competition for Apple in the personal-computer market. The Macintosh, introduced in 1984, was the first personal computer to use a graphical user interface and a mouse. The "Mac" initially sold poorly, and Jobs left the company in 1985, but eventually it found its niche in the desktop publishing market. Meanwhile, Microsoft's Windows operating system eroded Apple's market share. Apple recalled Jobs in 1997. He returned the company to profitability by introducing more innovative products, such as the iMac. Apple introduced iTunes, software for playing music that has been converted to the MP3 format, and the iPod portable MP3 music player in 2001; in 2003 the company began selling downloadable copies of major record company songs in MP3 format over the internet.
The Headquarters of Apple Computer Inc. is 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino California.
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1) "Apple Computer Inc." no longer exists. 2) Most importantly, "Apple Computer Inc" is not a industry. Due to the reasons above, your question is remarkably .. unanswerable.
Apple Inc. was incorporated January 3, 1977. The company was previously named Apple Computer, Inc.
it was named apple because he was working on making a computer with another worker but that worker wanted it to be his way so Steve Jobs wanted to do a computer as well. So he thought about education an apple means education he thought so he named it apple.
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To create a simpler computer that is affordable for everybody
Apple's first Macintosh computer appeared in 1984.
April 1, 1976 (incorporated 1977 as Apple Computer, Inc.)
it is called the iMac
Apple Inc
The ticker symbol for Apple, Inc. (formerly Apple Computer, Inc.) is AAPL and it is traded on the Nasdaq.