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Apple computer, Inc. is one of the largest tech companies in the world. The company was established on April 1,
1976, and incorporated on January 3, 1977. Apple computer had been using this name for the first 30 years then
removed the word “computer” on January 9, 2007. Apple has produced a lot of innovative products and has
successfully become one of the top leaders in the field of technology. Apple itself produces hardware which
includes Macintosh computers, iPods, iPhones and iPads. In order to support their own hardware, Apple has also
created software including Mac OS X operating system, iOS mobile operating system, iTunes, a professional
photography package, a suite of professional audio and film-industry, final cut studio, logic studio and music
production tools (Wikipedia, September 2010).
The Macintosh computer was first published in January 1984 with only 128k RAM. It was obviously insufficient, so
Apple then announced an updated version with 512k RAM eight months later. Apple Lisa, the name of one of the
Macintosh computers was published in 1983. Apple Lisa was the first commercially successful computer to use
Graphical User Interface. All computers were text-based before Apple Lisa was published. This first GUI based
personal computer with a small hand-operated device called a mouse was designed by Steve Jobs and his team.
With the first GUI-based computer, Apple also created its own operating system and seven supplied application
programs: LisaCalc, LisaDraw, LisaWrite, LisaGraph, LisaProject, LisaTerminal and LisaList. Until today, Apple has
been working on Macintosh computers for more than 20 years and...