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! class="ios-lab" | Founded
| class="ios-val" | April 1, 1976 — Cupertino, California
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! class="ios-lab" | Founders
| class="ios-val" | [[Steve Jobs]] · Steve Wozniak · Ronald Wayne
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! class="ios-lab" | Headquarters
| class="ios-val" | [[Apple Park]], Cupertino, California
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! class="ios-lab" | CEO
| class="ios-val" | Tim Cook (since 2011) — [[CEO of Apple|John Ternus]] from September 1, 2026
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! class="ios-lab" | Products
| class="ios-val" | [[iPhone]] · [[iPad]] · [[Mac]] · Apple Watch · Apple TV · Apple Vision Pro · AirPods
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! class="ios-lab" | Software
| class="ios-val" | [[iOS]] · [[iPadOS]] · [[macOS]] · [[watchOS]] · [[tvOS]] · [[visionOS]]
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! class="ios-lab" | Services
| class="ios-val" | [[App Store]] · iCloud · Apple Music · Apple TV+ · Apple Pay
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! class="ios-lab" | Hardware platform
| class="ios-val" | [[Apple silicon]]
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'''Apple''' (legally Apple Inc.) is an American technology company headquartered at [[Apple Park]] in Cupertino, California. Founded on April 1, 1976, by [[Steve Jobs]], Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne to sell the Apple I computer, it grew through the Macintosh, survived a near-death 1990s, and — following Jobs's 1997 return — produced the run of products that made it, by most measures, the most valuable company in the world: the iMac, the iPod, the [[iPhone]], the [[iPad]], the Apple Watch, and the services and silicon empires built atop them.

Apple's defining method is vertical integration: it designs the hardware, the operating systems ([[iOS]], [[iPadOS]], [[macOS]], [[watchOS]], [[tvOS]], [[visionOS]]), the chips ([[Apple silicon]]), and the services ([[App Store]], iCloud, Apple Pay) as one stack. The [[iPhone]] — the company's largest business since roughly 2010 — anchors an ecosystem strategy in which each product reinforces the others, from AirPods pairing to Continuity features spanning Mac and iPhone.

= History =

The Apple II (1977) built the personal-computer industry's first fortune; the Macintosh (1984) introduced the mouse-driven graphical interface to the mainstream. Jobs's 1985 ouster and 1997 return bracket the company's wilderness years, ended by the iMac (1998) and the "digital hub" strategy: the iPod and iTunes (2001) made Apple a consumer-electronics power, and the [[iPhone (1st generation)|iPhone]] (2007) with its [[App Store]] (2008) redefined computing outright. The post-Jobs decade under Tim Cook scaled the formula — [[iPad]] (2010), Apple Watch (2015), AirPods (2016), services, and the [[Apple silicon]] transition (2020) — culminating in the Vision Pro's spatial-computing bet (2024) and the [[Apple Intelligence]] AI platform (2024–).

= Products and platforms =

Current hardware spans the [[iPhone 17]] generation, [[iPad]], [[Mac]], Apple Watch, Apple TV, Vision Pro, and AirPods; each runs an operating system from the shared [[Darwin (operating system)|Darwin]] family, updated annually in lockstep (all at version 26 as of 2025–26). The [[App Store]] distributes software across all of them, and [[Apple silicon]] powers all of them — the A, M, S, C, and N series covering phones to Macs to modems.

= See also =

* [[iPhone]] · [[iOS]] · [[macOS]] · [[Apple silicon]]
* [[Steve Jobs]] · [[Apple Park]]

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