Apple Inc. (MDTTV's Future)

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, United States. Apple is the largest technology company by revenue and is the world's biggest company by market capitalization, the fourth-largest personal computer vendor by unit sales and second-largest mobile phone manufacturer.
== History ==
Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne on 1st April 1976 to develop computers. It was incorporated in January 3, 1977 as Apple Computer Inc. and was renamed as Apple Inc. in January 9, 2007, after the announcement of iPhone.
In 24th January 1984, the Macintosh was introduced. It was one of the first computers without a programming language. In 1985, Steve Jobs was fired, and came back in 1997. In 2001 came the iPod, but however when Apple unveiled their TV box in 2006, it was called iTV, which led to renaming it into Apple TV, due to a broadcasting company in the UK called ITV.
In 2007, the iPhone was unveiled. One hilarious moment in the conference is that before showing the actual phone itself, an image of an iPod-like device with a rotary dial was shown, and many people laughed. Not long after this moment, it was shown it is the first commercially available phone to have a capacitive multi-touch, which uses your finger to respond.
In 2008, Apple launches their App Store for iPhones and iPod Touch devices. It sold 60 million apps on the first month.
In October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs died at the age of 57. In the following year, the iPhone 5 is released, which caused problems about people's accessories not going into the new port on iPhone 5.
In 2013, iOS 7 is announced, but OS X Mavericks still has a lot of skeuomorphic UI despite being released after iOS 7. That all changed in 2014.
In 2014, OS X Yosemite was released, which included a major redesign on the UI.
In 2017, iPhone 8, iPhone X and iOS 11 is released, the name of the iPhone X has it's value, which means the phone was released 10 years after iPhone 2G.
In 2020, Apple released macOS Big Sur, iPhone 12 mini, Apple M Processors, iOS 14 and MagSafe Wireless. The 12 Mini was supposed to be owned by many, but instead only had 6% of market share at launch, and 4% in 2021, but Apple still released the 13 mini, which has the same problems as the iPhone 12 Mini, which led to the cancellation of the iPhone Mini, and being replaced by the iPhone 14 Plus.
In 2022, many people were expecting to have USB-C in the iPhone 14 lineup, but Apple still included the Lightning connector. The USB-C port on iPhone would not be until iPhone 15 in 2023.
During WWDC 2023, Apple introduced the new Vision Pro headset. It previously is called Reality Pro prior to WWDC according to leaks. It uses the VisionOS operating system.
In May 2024, Apple released the new iPads, along with M4.
In 2026, Apple officially introduced the iPhone 18 lineup, which is the first iPhone lineup to remove the charging port. This faced many issues with everyday people, who've criticized Apple for removing the charging port.
In 2030, Apple announces all new products such as Apple Glasses, Apple Car, Mac Projector, Mac Hologram, Transparent Studio Display, and Magic Keyboard Laser. However in 2031, Apple was hit by the Windows 15 surge which caused the rapid decrease of their MacOS market share from 35% to 3% in 2 months.
During the 2030s, the company was almost on it's "second downfall" until Andy Olleson became CEO in 2038.
== Trademarking problems ==
Apple's naming problems started in 2006 when they unveiled their TV box called iTV, but was later renamed to Apple TV due to trademark problems. The same thing happens to Apple Watch, iPhone and iPad. Apple also tried trademarking the I branding, but the court ruled against it.
== CEOs ==
* Michael Scott (1977-1981)
* Mike Markkula (1981-1983)
* John Sculley (1983-1993)
* Michael Spindler (1993–1996)
* Gil Amelio (1996–1997)
* Steve Jobs (1997–2011)
* Tim Cook (2011-2026)
* Greg Joswiak (2026-2027)
* Maria Levietta (2027-2038)
* Andy Olleson (2038-2051)
* Liam Dorenns (2051-2069)
* Aurielee Patterson (2069-2077)
* Linda Duarte (2077-2082)
== Logos ==
File:Apple Logo (1976-1977).png|1976-1977
File:Apple Logo (1977-2048).png|1977-2048
File:Apple Logo (2048-2100).png|2048-2100
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