About Apple

Apple Inc. is an American corporation which was established on April 1, 1976 in Cupertino, California by Steve jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. The company is famous for providing people with hardware products like the iPod, iPhone and iPad.

Apple products have a different operating system named Mac OS X. The Apple softwares include iTunes which is their media browser, iLife suite of multimedia and creativity software. The Apple has many softwares like iWork suite which is used for productivity, Aperture which is a professional photography package, Logic Studio which is a suite of music production tool and much more. The famous Internet Browser, Safari is also made by Apple.

The Fortune Magazine has named Apple the most admired company in the USA in 2008 and in the world in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

The first product of Apple was Apple I which was hand-built by Steve Wozniak and to sell this product Apple was established on April 1,  1976. It's market price was of $666.66.

Apple was incorporated on January 3, 1977 but without Ronald Wayne who sold his company shares back to Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

Apple had a staff of computer designers and a production line by the end of 1970s.

On January 24, 1984, Apple released world's first Macintosh computer.

From April 1, 1976 till now Apple has been increasing its market values and is one of the best market for consumer electronics , computer softwares and personal computers.

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Steve jobs

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs was born on February 24 , 1955 in San Francisco, California. He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California and named him Steven Paul. He went to the Cupertino Junior High School and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California. He graduated from High school and enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon. After only one semester he dropped out from the college but then also he continued auditing classes at Reed such as calligraphy. He slept on the floor of his friend's room, returned coke bottles to earn money and got free meals from local Hare Krishna temple.

In 1976, he co-founded Apple with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. He started Apple with the fundings of a then marketing manager and engineer A.C. 'Mike' Markulla Jr.

In 1985, Jobs founded another computer company named NeXT Computer which was an American computer company that developed and manufactured a series of computer workstations intendedfor the higher and business markets.

In 1986, Jobs bought 'The Graphic Group' which was later renamed as 'Pixar'. The company has got 6 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

In 1996, Steve Jobs came back to the company which he initially started. He became the CEO of Apple in 1997 and from the onwards he serving  as the CEO of apple.

He is one of the best CEOs of the world. 

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Steve Wozniak

Steve Gray ‘Woz’ Wozniak was born on August 11, 1950. He co- founded Apple Inc. with Steve jobs and Ronald Wayne. He worked as an American computer engineer. He has contributed his inventions and machines significantly for the revolution of personal computers in the 1970s. The Apple I and Apple II were created by Wozniak in the mid- 1970s. The story of the invention of the Apple is very interesting. Steve Wozniak and his friend Steve jobs, whom he met at a summer job where both were working for a mainframe computer, had an intense possession for making and selling the computer as fully assembled Printed Circuit Board (PCB). For this Wozniak even left his job and worked on his dream project with Jobs. Together they sold some of their possessions (such as Wozniak's HP scientific calculator and Jobs's Volkswagen van), raised USD $1,300, and assembled the first prototypes Wozniak often carried electronic devices with him, and would entertain party goers with novel devices. For this Wozniak even left his job and worked on his dream project with Jobs. Finally, on April 1, 1976, they formed their first Apple computer and priced it at $ 666.66 and got their first order of 50 computers from Paul Tarrel. Soon Wozniak had an aircraft accident while he was taking off from Santa Cruz Sky Park and suffered from retrograde amnesia and temporary anterograde amnesia. He didn’t remember the accident and forgot all that happened to him.  His girlfriend Candice Clark, who was an early Apple employee who worked in the accounting department, helped him to recover all his memories. When his girlfriend told him about the event, his short-term memory was restored; Wozniak also credited Apple II computer games for aiding him in restoring those lost memories. Clark and Wozniak were engaged later that year. After having recovered from the crash, Wozniak did not immediately joined Apple. Instead, he married his girlfriend, Candice Clark, and returned to US Berkeley under the name “Rock Raccoon Clark”, after his dog’s (Rocky) and wife’s (Clark) name, finally earning his undergraduate degree in 1986. Wozniak decided to join Apple in 1986.   Wozniak wanted to be a part of Apple but not as an engineer or motivated factor of the Apple. He joined Apple as an employee after 12 years of creating the Apple. He is still an employee and one of the shareholders of the company and has good terms with Steve Jobs.

             

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Ronald Wayne

Ronald Gerald Wayne was born on May 17, 1934 in Cleveland Ohio, United States. He used to work at Atari before he, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Inc. on April 1, 1976. He drew the first logo of Apple Inc which was a wood cut style design with a man sitting under an apple tree with the ‘Apple Computers’ name written in a flowing ribbon curved around the tree.

He also wrote the three men’s original partnership agreement and wrote the Apple I manual.

Wayne received a 10% stake in Apple but relinquished his stocks for US $600 less than two weeks later on April12, 1976.

Steve Jobs attempted to recruit Wayne back to Apple but Wayne resisted his plea. He joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and later at Salinas California Electronic Company.

Wayne is retired and is now selling stamps, rare coins and gold from his Pahrump, Nevada Home.

The logo of his company was a woodcut style design with a man sitting under an apple tree with the “Wayne’s Philatelics” name written in a flowing ribbon curved around the tree. This logo is interesting because it was the first logo of Apple Computers, which he designed.

The most interesting thing is that he has never owned an Apple product.

He holds a dozen patents but has never had enough capital to make money off any of them.   

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Tim Cook

Timothy “Tim” D. Cook was born on November 1960 in Robertsdale, Albama. His father was a shipyard worker and mother was a homemaker. He studied in Auburn University and got a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering in 1982. He got his MBA from Fuqua School Business in 1988.

In 2004, Cook became the CEO of Apple because Steve Jobs went for his pancreatic cancer surgery.

After 5 years, in 2009 he again became the CEO for several months while Steve Jobs was away for his liver transplant.

In January 2011, he was made the CEO of Apple the third time when the Apple’s Board of Directors granted a leave to Steve Jobs.

During that time, Tim Cook will be responsible for most of the apple’s day-to-day operations while CEO Steve Jobs still makes the major decisions.   

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How to jailbreak an iPhone or iPod touch?

To untether jailbreak iPod touch firmware 4.3.1, windows users can use Snowbreeze 2.5 which is similar to the new Pwnage Tool 4.3 which is used for Mac.

To jailbreak the iPod, you would need:

1.   iTunes 10.2.1 for windows

2.     Sn0wbreeze 2.5 for windows

3.        iOS 4.3.1 firmware for iPod Touch or iPhone

Step 1.  Download and install all the things mentioned above.

Step 2.  Open the snowbreeze and start it by clicking the blue coloured icon.

Step 3.  Click on the browse button and select the IPSW file of 4.3.1 firmware of the iPod or iPhone.

Step 4.  Let snowbreeze recognize your firmware and when it’s done click on the blue arrow.

Step 5.  Click the “Expert Mode”  to create a custom firmware. Now click on the “Build IPSW” option.

Note:  In case if iPhone relies on unlock then we can proceed ahead by clicking the “Baseband Preservation Mode” option instead of “Expert Mode”.

Step 6.  The message “Done!” will come when the firmware will be successfully build.

Step 7.  Now, by seeing the steps on the screen enter the DFU mode.

              To enter the DFU mode:

·         Turn off your device.

·         Hold the home and power button for 10 seconds.

·         Release the power button while holding the home button for another 10 seconds.

·         The device is now in the DFU mode.

Step 8.  If all the steps are followed correctly, a message from snowbreeze will come.

Step 9.  Now open iTunes and on the keyboard press and hold Shift key and click on “Restore” button. Now select the .Ipsw, which was created above, and click Open.

Step 10. The further processes will be automatically conducted by the iTunes. When the process will end your iPod or iPhone will be jailbroken on iOS 4.3.1

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How to unlock iPhone 4 or iPhone 3GS firmware 4.3.1?

iPhone 4 or iPhone 3GS users can use Ultrasn0w 1.2.1 to unlock iOS 4.3.1 with preserved basebands: 01.59.00 / 04.26.08 / 05.11.07 / 05.12.01 / 05.13.04 / 06.15.00.

To unlock the iPhone follow the steps:

Step 1.  Jailbreak the iPhone and preserve the baseband using Pwnage Tool on Mac or using Sn0wbreeze on Windows. To jailbreak the iPhone click here.

Step 2.  After you have jailbroken your iPhone, start Cydia on your iPhone.

Step 3.  In Cydia click the “Manage” tab at the bottom.

Step 4.  Now click the “Sources” tab.

Step 5.  Now click on “Edit” and then click “Add”. A dialog box will appear. Now type “http://repo666.ultrasn0w.com” in the box and then click on “Add Resource”.

Now Cydia will update your sources automatically with a help of some automated steps.

Step 6.  After Cydia has updated the source, search “ultrasn0w 1.2.1” and click on install written in the top right corner. Ultrasn0w will automatically unlock you iPhone.

Step 7. After the installation process is complete, restart your iPhone. This is the most important step.

Now you have a fully unlocked iPhone 4 or 3GS with firmware 4.3.1

        

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