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| 1976 - Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple Computer and release their first product: Apple I. (Reuters / KIMBERLY WHITE) |
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| 1977 - The Apple II is released. |
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| 1983 - Apple releases the "Lisa" desktop designed with businesses in mind. It's interface is still used to this day. |
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| 1984 - The Macintosh hits the market and becomes the first computer targeted for personal use. |
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| 1985 - Steve Jobs leaves Apple after an internal power struggle. |
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| 1986 - Jobs founds NeXt Computers, a UNIX based system, in the hopes of putting Apple out of business. |
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| 1986 - Steve Jobs purchases Pixar from George Lucas for $5 million. |
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| 1996 - Apple buys out NeXt for $429 million and 1.5 million shares of Apple stock. NeXt OPENSTEP software is incorporated into the Mac OS. |
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| 1997 - Steve Jobs becomes the CEO of Apple after the company hemorrhages over $1.8 billion. |
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| 1998 - The colorful iMac desktop is launched. |
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| 2001 - Generation One iPods go on sale. |
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| 2003 - The iTunes store opens, adding movies, podcasts, TV shows and other media to Apple's empire. |
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| 2006 - Steve Jobs sells Pixar to Disney for $7.4 billion. |
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| 2007 - After months of speculation, the iPhone is officially announced. |
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| 2008 - The App Store is released as a complement to iTunes. |
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| 2010 - Apple launches the iPad and has an 84% market share on tablets by the end of the fiscal year. |
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