What’s more exciting than establishing a multinational company? The answer to this question is crossing the milestones once which looked impossible. Yes, Apple is now first US company with the market cap of over $1 trillion. It might not be the first one to do so, but it is definitely the most anticipated one. Leaving behind all the stereotypes and critics behind, Apple is marching forward keeping its chest up and head high.
Apple History
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Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that has its feet in consumer electronics, computer software, online services and many more that has been aiding in the life of we people. Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in April 1976 with its first product Wozniak’s Apple I personal computer. It incorporated its name as Apple computer, Inc. in January 1977 with the significant momentum in the Apple II sales and revenue growth for the company. After that with some hiccups and bouncing here and there, Apple is successful in keeping its name high in the electronic market. The company had faced few bumps when the its competitors sold lower-priced products. But as of now, on August 2018, it has successfully established itself as the first public U.S. company to be valued at over US$1 trillion.
Apple Reaches 1 Trillion Dollars By All Those Best Apple Products. Let’s see them all here:
Apple has wide line of products from one you have in your pocket to something you enjoy watching at home. Some of the products of Apple Inc. are as follows.
Apple Mac
| Product | Introduced |
| iMac | 1998 |
| Mac Mini | 2005 |
| MacBook | 2006 and relaunched in 2015 |
| MacBook Pro | 2006 |
| Mac Pro | 2006 |
| MacBook Air | 2008 |
iPod
On October 23, 2001, Apple announced the iPod digital music player, first of its kind. Several models have been updated since then making the portable music players popular and Apple a market leader. It has three models iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle and iPod Touch. From July 2017, only iPod Touch is available for purchase discontinuing the others.
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iPhone
iPhone is the most popular and focused Apple device. The hierarchy of iPhone is as follows.
| Product | Released |
| First-generation iPhone | 2007 |
| iPhone 3G | 2008 |
| iPhone 3GS | 2009 |
| iPhone 4 | 2010 |
| iPhone 4s | 2011 |
| iPhone 5 | 2012 |
| iPhone 5s | 2013 |
| iPhone 5c | 2013 |
| iPhone 6 and 6 plus | 2014 |
| iPhone 6s and 6s plus | 2015 |
| iPhone SE | 2016 |
| iPhone 7 and 7 plus | 2017 |
| iPhone 8 and 8 plus | 2018 |
| iPhone X | 2018 |
iPad
iPad is the tablet computer built as a device a notch above iPhone and a notch below mac. There have been several versions to it since its launch on January 27, 2010.
| Product | Released |
| iPad | January 27, 2010 |
| iPad 2 | March 2, 2011 |
| iPad 3 | March 7, 2012 |
| iPad 4 | October 23, 2012 |
| iPad Air | October 22, 2013 |
| iPad Air 2 | October 16, 2014 |
| iPad Pro | September 9, 2015 |
| iPad Mini 4 | September 9, 2015 |
| 9.7-inch iPad Pro | March 21, 2016 |
| 10.5-inch iPad Pro | June 5, 2017 |
| 12.9-inch iPad Pro | June 5, 2017 |
Apple TV
Apple TV is the product of Apple Inc. that lets you watch videos over internet to your Television set. You have Apple TV app that lets you control the content you want to watch from you iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. You can seamlessly watch contents from online stores like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, ESPN etc. that you can change back and forth without you changing the app. It has got the functionality of “Hey Siri” so you can watch whatever you like just with a command of your voice. You can even buy accessories for you Apple TV like speakers, game controller, etc. to enjoy whatever you want, may it be movie, game or else.
HomePod
HomePod is just an addition to the Apple products family. HomePod is a home automation smart device just like Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Google Home etc. HomePod works with Siri to solve your queries at your command and control supported smart devices at home flawlessly. It is released in February 9, 2018.
Software
As per the software lineup, Apple has built its own operating system right from the beginning. It has developed OS for almost every device it has built. Some of the OS it provides as service are macOS for Mac, iOS for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, watchOS for Apple Watch, and tvOS for Apple TV.
It provides other software as well to its consumers. Pages for writing, Numbers for spreadsheets and Keynote for presentation. It offers iMovie and Final Cut Pro X for editing videos for macOS.
It has iCloud for the cloud services for backups and Apple Music for streaming music and videos.
Apple Energy
Apple Energy, LLC is wholly owned subsidiary of Apple Inc. which sells solar energy. As of June 2016, it provides 217.9 megawatts of solar generation capacity. Apple’s North Carolina data center is already powered entirely by renewable energy sources.
These are only few products that exists at present, Apple has been planning on widening its arms in the fields of vehicles and other similar products. It has already become first of the U.S. public multinational company to have crossed the market value of $1 trillion and now apple is 1 trillion-dollar company and it is not guessing work that this legacy is going to continue from generation to generation. Apple is a brand that showcases the professionality as of some users might state. It is a way to show dignity. There are only few of such brands that just goes by the name. Apple announces different new products at its anniversary every year and thought the prices be skyrocketing day by day, the products still seems to sell because Apple devices go by the name.
The success of the Apple devices from where the founders started to where it is now cannot be showcased in words, its incredible. It creates devices for the high-end consumers mixing little bit of this and that, taking risks here and there, but it proves to be successful in long run.
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