Apple.com Biography & Web Analysis

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, which designs, develops, and sells customer electronics, computer software, and online services. It is considered as one of the Big Five organizations in the U.S. information technology industry, alongside Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook. Its hardware products include the iPhone smartphone, the iPad tablet PC, the Mac PC, the iPod portable media player, the Apple Watch smartwatch, the Apple TV digital media player, the AirPods wireless earbuds, the AirPods Max headphones, and the HomePod smart speaker line 

Apple's software includes iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS operating systems, the iTunes media player, the Safari internet browser, the Shazam music identifier, and the iLife and iWork creativity and productivity suites, just as professional applications like Final Cut Pro X, Logic Pro, and Xcode. Its online services include the iTunes Store, the iOS App Store, Mac App Store, Apple Arcade, Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Fitness+, iMessage, and iCloud. Other services include Apple Store, Genius Bar, AppleCare, Apple Pay, Apple Pay Cash, and Apple Card. 

Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in April 1976 to develop and sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer, however Wayne sold his share back to Jobs and Wozniak within 12 days. It was incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc., in January 1977, and sales of its computers, including the Apple II, developed rapidly. 

Jobs and Wozniak recruited a staff of computer designers and had a production line starting in Jobs' garage. Apple went public in 1980 to instant financial achievement. Over the next few years, Apple delivered new computers featuring creative graphical user interfaces, like the first Macintosh in 1984, and Apple's marketing advertisements for its products received widespread critical acclaim. In any case, the high cost of its products and limited application library caused issues, as controlled battles between executives. In 1985, Wozniak left Apple amicably and remained an honorary employee, while Jobs resigned to establish NeXT, taking some Apple colleagues with him. 

Apple's overall yearly income added up to $274.5 billion for the 2020 fiscal year. Apple is the world's largest technology company by revenue and one of the world's most valuable companies. Apple is the world's fourth largest PC vendor by unit sales as of January 2021. It is also the world's fourth-largest smartphone manufacturer. In August 2018, Apple became the first publicly traded on an open market U.S. organization to be valued at more than $1 trillion and only two years later, in August 2020 became the first $2 trillion U.S. organization. 

Apple uses 147,000 full-time employees and keeps 510 retail locations in 25 countries as of 2020. It works the iTunes Store, which is the world's largest music retailer. As of January 2020, more than 1.5 billion Apple products are effectively being used worldwide. The organization additionally has a high level of brand loyalty and is ranked as the world's most valuable brand. In any case, Apple gets significant criticism with respect to the work practices of its project workers, its environmental practices and unethical business practices, including anti-competitive behavior, just as the origins of source materials.