Apple Inc. (Apple Computer, Inc.) is an American multinational corporation that designs and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products are the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Its software includes the Mac OS X operating system; the iTunes media browser; the iLife suite of multimedia and creativity software; the iWork suite of productivity software; Aperture, a professional photography package; Final Cut Studio, a suite of professional audio and film-industry software products; Logic Studio, a suite of music production tools; the Safari web browser; and iOS, a mobile operating system.

As of July 2011, Apple has 357 retail stores in ten countries, and an online store. It is the largest publicly traded company in the world by market capitalization, overtopping ExxonMobil by some $150 billion, as well as the largest technology company in the world by revenue and profit, worth more than Google and Microsoft combined. As of September 24, 2011, the company had 60,400 permanent full-time employees and 2,900 temporary full-time employees worldwide; its worldwide annual sales totalled $65 billion, growing to $108 billion in 2011.

Fortune magazine named Apple the most admired company in the United States in 2008, and in the world from 2008 to 2011. However, the company has received widespread criticism for its contractors' labor, and for its environmental and business practices.

Established on April 1, 1976 in Cupertino, California, and incorporated January 3, 1977, the company was named Apple Computer, Inc. for its first 30 years. The word "Computer" was removed from its name on January 9, 2007, as its traditional focus on personal computers shifted towards consumer electronics.

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Steve Jobs

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, United State, February 24, 1955. Died in Palo Alto, California, United State, October 5, 2011 at age 56 years. He is a Business Leader and the inventor from The United of State. He is s Co-Founder, Chairman, former CEO Apple Inc. Jobs also preveously served as executive officer of Pixar Studio. He became a member of the board of director of Walt Disney in 2006, after taking over Pixar by Disney. His name is list as executive produser in the movie Toys Story in 1995.

At the end of 1970's, Jobs with founder Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula, and others, design, develop, and market a line of personal computers first commercially Successful, The Apple II. In the early 1980s, the careers of those who first saw the commercial potential of graphical user interface is mouse-driven Xerox PARC and then encourage the manufacture of macintosh. After losing  against the decision of the board of directors in 1984. Jobs resign from Apple and founded NEXT a computer platform development company engaged in higher education and business markets. Purchase of NEXT by Apple in 1996 brought Jobs back to the company he founded together, and he served as its CEO from 1997 - 2011.

In 1986, he took over the computers graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd which later became Pixar Animation Studios. He became CEO and larger shareholder as much as 50,1% to be taken over by the Walt Disney Company in 2006. Because it also Jobs became the largest shareholder in Disney a much as 7% and the board of directors Disney. After stepping down as CEO on August 24, 2011, Jobs was elected as Chairman of the board of directors of Apple.

On October 5, 2011 Steve Jobs died in California at the age of 56 years, seven years after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. At the time of his death, he was widely regarded as a visionary, pioneer and genius in business, innovation, and product design, and those who succeeded in changing the face of the modern world, revolutionizing the six different company and example to all chief executives. His death was widely addressed and considered a great loss to the world by his fans around the world

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