A magical journey through 10 historic Apple moments

The company Apple Inc. (until January 9, 2007 Apple Computer Inc.), known to most people as Apple, is a multinational technology company, based in Cupertino  California, which designs, develops and sells consumer electronics, software, online services and computers. 

We briefly mention the most well-known ones for the sake of this article, such as the computers of the Macintosh, the operating system OS X, the portable media player iPod, The iPhone and the much-discussed iPad. 

Today we will take you to magical world the history of the Apple, making a few stops at important dates in the past. If you have the belts on, we're off.

Our first destination is the garage of the Jobs house, in the year 1976.

Establishment of Apple Computers

O Steve jobs a 21-year-old student dropped out of college and returned to his parents in Los Altos California. He and his two friends, Ronald Wayne and Steve Wozniak, almost daily, would hang out at the in the garage of his house, with the hours. 

You'd think they were creating their own rock band. This was of course not the case. The three young men had other plans in mind. It should be mentioned that the Jobs and Wayne, were already partners in the video game company Atari, while the oldest (26 years old) Wozniak, worked at Hewlett-Packard. 

The three friends in that garage founded the company Apple Computers, on 1 April 1976. And while the Jobs and the Wozniak continued their efforts to ensure that the vision apple computer to become a reality, Wayne left the company, then selling his share for $800, three months after its establishment.

Presentation of Apple I

The first computer from Apple Computer, by hand Steve Wozniak, created in his parents' garage Steve Jobs, and made its first presentation at the Homebrew Computer Club of Palo Alto in 1976. The processing power of the Apple I, was similar to a wooden pocket computer.

From the Apple I, the keyboard, the monitor, the mouse and the hard disk were missing. However, the first micro-computer in history, which, connected to a keyboard and a screen, could display text without the need for additional circuitry. This machine was really a huge step against the competition of the time.

The accessories package Apple I, sold 666 dollars (no connection with the antichrist), just the Wozniak played with repeating digits. Sold over 200 packages by Byte Shop, the world's first technology store chain. Who made the Agreement I wonder? 

In 1999 the Apple I sealed, was anointed as the most collectible PC of all time - a lucky technology enthusiast, gave for its acquisition $ 50.000.

The vehicle of time takes off again to the year 1984 and the company's annual shareholders' meeting.

The dawn of the Mac computer

Steve Jobs presented the Macintosh at the company's annual shareholders' meeting on 24 January 1984. It really became a panic of excitement. The retail price of the computer $2,495. 

The Macintosh was really the first computer accessible to the simple user, with a lot of features for the time such as user interface, folders, icons etc.

It is worth mentioning that he was also the most spectacular presentation electronic device worldwide. 

The advertisement that was shown for the first time during the Super Bowl, destined to go down in history. The well-known director of the time Ridley Scott, introduces the Mac to the public with a Orwellian capture advertising campaign. 

The tagline of the ad: Apple is for non-conformists!

The third stop on our magical journey is an unfortunate moment in Apple's history, almost a year later. 

The return of Steve Jobs

"In those years he was completely out of control." with this phrase, board member, explained their decision to fire the board's Steve Jobs in 1985. And that was the reality. Steve Jobs he may have been brilliant, but he was a bad partner. When he'd get an idea Alas to anyone who disagreed. 

Even the former CEO of Pepsi John Sculley, who joined Apple, essentially playing the role of "babysitter" Jobs, he could not work with "fanatic fan."

In fact the Sculley it was he who initiated his overthrow. To tell you the truth, their relationship did not start well. Jobs had invited Sculley to join the company with the phrase "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugar water to children or do you want to have a chance to change the world? 

In 1997 with the company to operates at a loss and Windows 95 selling like crazy, Apple's board of directors decided that what the company needed was a "fanatical fan."

In August of the same year Steve Jobs shall resume the composition of the Governing Board as CEO - in the first instance as a temporary one. The Fortune at that time he writes that he came back very different from what he was when he left and was only interested in creating beautiful objects, thus praising the triumphant return of its co-founder.

Then the Steve Jobs was one of the most valuable assets of the company. In 2009 after the news of his health problem and the forced sick leave for medical reasons, the company's stock fell almost 10%.

We continue our journey, this time our destination is the year 1998.

The look and feel of iMac

O known to this day, iMac, first presented in 1998 with two important features that quickly made it America's most popular computer. 

First, a autonomous electronic unit without the need for setup by the user and with a handle that was very useful for moving around. Secondly, it had amazing for the season appearance.

At that time, the shelves of technology stores were flooded with mπεζ computer. The truly impressive iMac with the translucent his body, he stood out and stole the Look to users who did not know and many by computers. 

Before the first model is out of time, Steve Jobs releases its second edition in 5 bright colours. In the first week of the new iMac, the company reported a quarterly profit, three times more than the entire previous year.

Two years later, Steve Jobs' skills were highlighted, developing NeXT. Yes, that's where we're heading for the details, the year 2001.  

The release of Mac OS X (Cheetah)

During the period that the Steve Jobs was out of Apple and working for NeXT the other company he had founded, acquiring new skills. One of them was to be to prove important. It is about capturing the functional Mac OS X, that we know to date. 

With a release date of March 2001, the operating system based on Unix - foreshadowed for a new era of programming open source, which made competitors such as Microsoft, to be alarmed. The OS X was an operating system almost immune to crashes, stable, fast, easy to handle, where it would become one of the most important reasons in the next few years, someone to buy a Mac.

The sixth destination is the beginning of a frenetic mania to acquire Apple products.  

The mania for acquiring the iPod

With the slogan "Tip: it's not a Mac" Apple's October 2001 launches her new creation, a cool and impressive iPod. The reception he received from the audience was truly unprecedented and only as mania we can describe it. 

A portable music player of 399 dollars with the innovations and its impressive for the time, capacity, it immediately became unbreakable. The timing of the release of the iPod and the his genius advertising campaign, they literally put it in every pocket. From its first day of release to date, it has sold over 170.000.000 devices on the planet.

Years of successes have followed one another and we have just reached 2003.

iTunes with dreamy downloads

Two years after the Retraction of Napster for copyright infringement, Apple unveiled the iTunes Store, in 2003, offering legal downloading, to $ 0,99 a piece. It should be mentioned that the iTunes app already existed since 2001, as a method Storage and classification of music on Apple computers.

The company's entry into the sale digital music would change the marketplace once and for all. The iTunes store was very easy to use, while its music library for its time was vast. The feature that made it unbeatable was the automatic synchronization, with the popular iPod. 

In the first week of availability iTunes sold 1 million pieces, while in its first year of operation, it exceeded the 50 million pieces that had been sold through the app.

Year 2007, specifically June 2007, first release day of a device called iPhone 2G, will you download?

iPhone is a fact

As a consequence of the huge success of the much-discussed device iPod, the company from the Cupertino, decided to enter the highly competitive market for portable multi-device devices, smartphones and blackberry's. 

On 29 June 2007 on the day of its release iPhone in the US, huge queues formed at the company's retail stores in order to get the coveted device, with the most rave reviews. 

Η multimedia device, mp3 player, camera, GPS and so many more, he would sell 1.4 million devices in 3 months. The following year the Steve Jobs will announce the first upgrade of the device, the iPhone 3G. All devices up to and including iPhone 5 will keep the same price with a two-year contract.

We have reached the last important date. We think there are many of you here who can recount the events of the year 2010, huh?

The coming of the iPad device

If someone was looking the diary on the day of the apocalypse iPad would have read January 27, 2010. Apple and more, welcomed the company's tablet as if they had announced the fire (yes it's a bit of an exaggeration but we can't describe that fury otherwise). 

Except of exaggeration, we can say that the device that was presented was truly innovative. The user now had the ability to control the messages email, browsing the internetplaying games, read books, watch movies, download books, watch movies Applications on a device that looked like a giant iPhone, but functioned as a baby laptop. 

The rest about the device and its evolution, you know them. The truth is that between the important moments there are other interventions Dates stations such as the announcement of the first store retail of Apple, the announcement of App Store, and other moments of the past. But we ended up with the ones that the Apple really brought the revolution in history.

Thank you very much for making it to the end of this trip, personally, I know the facts in private from 2007 onwards. We would like to know if any of you have followed closely, previous events of the company Apple which may ...they have escaped us, recall your memory in order, if you wish, to tell us about your experience.