It employs approximately 50,000 people in the United States.
Timeline:
1971 – Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak meet through mutual friend Bill Fernandez.
April 1, 1976 – Apple Computers, Inc. is founded by Jobs and Wozniak with the debut of the Apple I.
January 3, 1977 – Apple is incorporated.
February 1977 – Michael Scott becomes Apple’s president.
June 1977 – The Apple II, the first personal computer for a mass market, is released to the public.
1978 – Apple releases the Apple Disk II, an external floppy-disk drive.
May 1980 – The Apple III debuts.
December 1980 – Apple conducts an initial public offering of 4.6 million shares at $22 per share, a valuation of approximately $1.8 billion.
1981 – Mike Markkula becomes president and Steve Jobs becomes chairman.
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October 23, 2012 – Apple announces the iPad mini.
February 6, 2013 – iTunes sells its 25 billionth song.
August 9, 2013 – In one of many patent lawsuits between the tech giants, Apple wins two of six patent infringements against Samsung.
March 2014 – Apple sells their 500 millionth iPhone.
May 28, 2014 – Apple announces deal to buy Beats for $3 billion.
June 9, 2014 – Apple conducts a stock split, bringing the price down from $647.50 to $92.50.
September 9, 2014 – Apple unveils several new products: the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, a mobile payment service, called ApplePay, and the AppleWatch, a wearable computer/watch.
December 16, 2014 – Apple wins an antitrust lawsuit brought by eight million iPod owners who alleged that Apple abused its monopoly power in the music industry to force out competition.
November 22, 2015 – Apple sells and ships their one-billionth iOS device, a 64 gigabyte iPhone 6 Plus.
January 27, 2015 – Apple reveals they posted $74.6 billion in revenue in the first fiscal quarter of 2015, the best in the corporation’s history.
