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*1 APRIL 1976*
(‘apple’ was founded by…)
‘steve wozniak’
‘ronald wayne’
(…to ‘develop’ + ‘sell’ PCs)
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(“apple inc.” is an american multinational technology company headquartered in ‘cupertino’, ‘california’, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services)
(its hardware products include the ‘iPhone’ smartphone, the ‘iPad’ tablet computer, the ‘Mac’ personal computer, the ‘iPod’ portable media player, the ‘Apple Watch’ smartwatch, and the ‘Apple TV’ digital media player)
(Apple’s consumer software includes the ‘OS X’ and ‘iOS’ operating systems, the ‘iTunes’ media player, the ‘Safari’ web browser, and the ‘iLife’ and ‘iWork’ creativity and productivity suites)
(its online services include the ‘iTunes Store’, the ‘iOS App Store’ and ‘Mac App Store’, and ‘iCloud’)
(it was incorporated as apple computer, Inc. on 3 january 1977, and was renamed as ‘Apple Inc.’ on ‘9 january 2007’, to reflect its shifted focus toward ‘consumer electronics’)
(‘Apple’ (NASDAQ: AAPL) joined the ‘Dow Jones Industrial Average’ on 19 March 2015)
(‘Apple’ is the ‘world’s largest information technology company’ by ‘revenue’, the ‘world’s largest technology company’ by ‘total assets’, and the ‘world’s 2nd-largest mobile phone manufacturer’)
(in ‘November 2014’, in addition to being the ‘largest publicly traded corporation in the world’ by ‘market capitalization’, ‘Apple’ became the first U.S. company to be valued at over ‘US$700 billion’)
(the company employs 115,000 permanent full-time employees as of ‘July 2015’ and maintains 478 retail stores in 17 countries as of ‘March 2016’)
(it operates the online ‘Apple Store’ and ‘iTunes Store’, the latter of which is the ‘world’s largest music retailer’)
(there are over 1 billion actively used Apple products worldwide as of ‘March 2016’)
(Apple’s worldwide annual revenue totaled $233 billion for the fiscal year ending in ‘September 2015’)
(to put this into perspective this revenue generation accounts for approximately 1.25% of the total United States GDP)
(the company enjoys a high level of ‘brand loyalty’ and, according to the 2015 edition of the ‘Interbrand Best Global Brands’ report, is the “world’s most valuable brand” with a valuation of ‘$170.3 billion’)
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(the corporation receives significant criticism regarding the labor practices of its contractors and its environmental and business practices, including the origins of ‘source materials’)
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