The first heavy buyer of the Apple I was an store owner of computer equipments Pall Terrel. The businessman ordered from Wozniak and Jobs the 50 brand new personal computers, paid $500 for each.
Buying the Apple I, a buyer should have seen about a body frame, a power adapter, a keyboard and a monitor. Only in such a case the novelty could be used.
Photo: the Apple I sample of 1977.
In as little as a few years after the official market launch of the Apple I Wozniak and Jobs introducedthe Apple II.
Photo: Apple's founders Steve Jobs (left) and Steve Wozniak (right) during the presentation of the second generation of brand personal computers.
Photo: Macintosh from Apple is on the shelves of one of the stores, December, 1995.
Steve Wozniak stopped woking at Apple in 1987, however he has been getting profit from the company up to now, as he owns the block of shares.
The meaningful event in the history of Apple brand was the development and the market launch of the first iPhone (in the middle of the bottom row). The presentation of a smartphone from Apple of the first generation – iPhone 2G (or iPhone for short) – was held in 2007.
Jobs was constantly trying to surprise the brand's admirers – in due time Apple's fans were delighted not only with iPhone and an ultrathin MacBook, but with the Apple flagstore's design in New York (in the picture).
Every year before the market launch of the Apple novelties the turn of buyers lines up about the store.
Today the head of Apple is Tim Cook who joined the company in 1998.
Photo: Tim Cook and Steve Jobs.
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