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Today Marks the 45th Anniversary of Apple's Founding
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Woz is living large off of Apple, he gets every single new device sent to him and his family, that’s retirement for you 🤘🤘🤘
Woz' Wikipedia page states he's "still an employee as of 2019," at least in some capacity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak
Part of my career intersected with a few Silicon Valley elites and the organizations they support, and I've had the opportunity to meet him a few times. My impression is that he loves technology and the promise of what it can do, both for Geeks and humans, lol. I think he's happy where he is, and Apple was the career he had for a long while, and now he's doing other things.
Thank you for the great work everybody has done are doing 🙏
Today marks the 45th anniversary of Apple, co-founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976. Wayne sold his 10% share of the company back to Jobs and Wozniak just 12 days later to avoid financial risk, which is unfortunate in hindsight given that his stake would be worth more than $200 billion today.
Apple's history began in the garage of Jobs' childhood home in Los Altos, California, where he worked with Wozniak to test the first Apple I computer systems in 1975. Jobs then reached a sales agreement with a small computer store named the Byte Shop in nearby Mountain View, California, which began selling the Apple I in July 1976 for $666.66. Wozniak later said he chose that price because he liked repeating digits.
From near-bankruptcy in the late 1990s to becoming the world's most valuable public company by the 2010s, Apple has been through a series of highs and lows over the past four and a half decades. The company has introduced several iconic products over that time, most notably including the Macintosh in 1984, the iPod in 2001, and the iPhone in 2007, with Jobs becoming well known for his charismatic keynote presentations.
Apple CEO Tim Cook reflected on the company's 45th anniversary today on Twitter, sharing a quote from Jobs and thanking employees.
Apple recently capped off its most financially successful year ever with a record $111 billion revenue in the fourth quarter of 2020. The company is now valued at over $2 trillion, and its future is expected to include greater pushes into areas like AR/VR and artificial intelligence as technology continues to evolve beyond screens.
Article Link: Today Marks the 45th Anniversary of Apple's Founding
This has a little, the rest I've read in some book or another...
https://www.cultofmac.com/521545/tiah-woz-and-jobs-reunion/
A round of apple juice for everyone. 
Happy to be a member of the orchard.
Happy to be a member of the orchard.
Cook actually came onboard when Apple was at one of it's lowest points-- pre- iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, iTunes, etc. He has been with Apple for more than half of it's existence. There is no current product that predates Cook. One could argue he was part of Apple's rebirth during the 2nd coming of SJ. I wouldn't make that argument, but one easily could.
"was with Apple"? As in employed by? I would hope not given it has been 45 years. But my first computer was an Apple IIe and I still have one that works with a functioning floppy disk (imagine a floppy still working after all of these years). I would be hard pressed to list every Apple product I have ever owned but unlike so many here I remember the good and bad years of Apple because I was there. There seems to be an idea that there was some magical time in Apple's history, typically attributed to Steve Jobs, where wondrous products arrived every day and it was all just perfect. However here is a timetable of some of the most memorable Apple hardware, truly industry disrupting items:
Apple I 1976
Apple II 1977
Macintosh 1984
Powerbook 100 1991
iMac 1998
iPod 2001
iPhone 2007
iPad 2010
Apple Watch 2015
M1 Macs 2020
Never mind the disruptions of the Mac OS, OS X, iTunes (and the store), iOS, etc, etc.
It is not like recent years are doom-and-gloom for Apple product development as some are posting. Rainbows and Unicorns were not produced regularly by Apple even under Steve Jobs, who I highly respect for his achievements. Not everything Apple has released has been a success nor have all failures been recent. Remember the Lisa? IIGS? The Clone experiment? The LC line of underwhelming computers? The Newton? The painful decline of the Power PC chip? Are we really comparing the 2016 Butterfly keyboard to the Newton? Let's get some perspective here.
Apple's history has had ups and downs, will continue to, but I do not remember the magical era that so many seem to be referring to and I am not concerned about where Apple is today.
Happy Birthday, Apple. Looking forward to what's NeXT (yeah, you see what I did there)!
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"Wayne sold his 10% share of the company back to Jobs and Wozniak just 12 days later to avoid financial risk, which is unfortunate in hindsight given that his stake would be worth more than $200 billion today."
Today marks the 45th anniversary of Apple, co-founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976. Wayne sold his 10% share of the company back to Jobs and Wozniak just 12 days later to avoid financial risk, which is unfortunate in hindsight given that his stake would be worth more than $200 billion today.
Apple's history began in the garage of Jobs' childhood home in Los Altos, California, where he worked with Wozniak to test the first Apple I computer systems in 1975. Jobs then reached a sales agreement with a small computer store named the Byte Shop in nearby Mountain View, California, which began selling the Apple I in July 1976 for $666.66. Wozniak later said he chose that price because he liked repeating digits.
From near-bankruptcy in the late 1990s to becoming the world's most valuable public company by the 2010s, Apple has been through a series of highs and lows over the past four and a half decades. The company has introduced several iconic products over that time, most notably including the Macintosh in 1984, the iPod in 2001, and the iPhone in 2007, with Jobs becoming well known for his charismatic keynote presentations.
Apple CEO Tim Cook reflected on the company's 45th anniversary today on Twitter, sharing a quote from Jobs and thanking employees.
Apple recently capped off its most financially successful year ever with a record $111 billion revenue in the fourth quarter of 2020. The company is now valued at over $2 trillion, and its future is expected to include greater pushes into areas like AR/VR and artificial intelligence as technology continues to evolve beyond screens.
Article Link: Today Marks the 45th Anniversary of Apple's Founding
More proof that Time Travel doesn't exist......
I believe Chris Espinosa, Employee #3, is still at Apple. I'm sure there are some other old-timers around, too.
WOW!!!
Personally my first experience was with the Appl ][e (I think ... their first colour PC and the first PC that could play multiple sounds at the same time). My father had a friend whom owned a Mac at the airport and gave me a 5 1/2 floppy disk - DOUBLE-SIDED in 1984 (early '84 which actally was very rare then) with Karateka!
Let's just say Karateka was light years above and beyond Tank on the Commodor PET which was the middle school standard back in 84. Our teacher was still teaching the class from a manual and was blown away with teh double-sided Floppy. Honestly I don't think I've ever gotten it back ... just stayed in the class. School shipped out the PETs and replaced with ][e's within that month.
BTW ... Apple Employee #8 Chris Espinosa still employed at Apple. He's THE only original 10 left. Now THAT is job security!!!
Well I don't know...I had a LC111 it was my first Mac with a colour screen....and it was a very good machine!
Tim ultimately will make more than anyone, yet has the least vision. His use of MRP helped bring the company's mfg process into the black, but he lacks creative juice. He deserves credit for trying to keep the ethos alive. That said, his motivation is about personal gain/legacy, like everyone else.
happy anniversary!
aapl history really awsome in tech
45 years - for some reason feels like more to me
aapl history really awsome in tech
45 years - for some reason feels like more to me
I still remember working at the old computer store in my town selling Apple I and II computers when I was in high school. Fond memories of the early days of computers. It was the summer of 77 when I helped my high school math teacher connect the first terminals to a 300 baud modem and connect to the local university VAX PDP mini system.
Remember trying to get a customer to upgrade his new Apple II computer from 4k to 8K, Apple had a deal for $100 at the store.
Well my birthday will be in less than a month and I will turn 60, where did all the time go. I currently work for Facebook doing the Oculus VR sales and support. So still doing technology all these years later.
Remember trying to get a customer to upgrade his new Apple II computer from 4k to 8K, Apple had a deal for $100 at the store.
Well my birthday will be in less than a month and I will turn 60, where did all the time go. I currently work for Facebook doing the Oculus VR sales and support. So still doing technology all these years later.