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Apple wasn’t always big.
In June of 2023, Apple became the first company to ever top a 3 trillion dollar market cap. In this day and age, Apple is a household name. From phones to computers to even watches; everyone has the name Apple Inc. in their head somewhere. But it wasn’t always this way.
In the 90s, Microsoft’s business was booming. The GUI innovations that Microsoft was making with their Windows operating system left Apple in the dust. Between 1995-1998, Mac sales dropped a terrifying 40%. On the contrary, the sales of Windows PCs more than doubled in that same amount of time. Apple was in trouble. Apple tried time and time again to “bring back the macintosh” in this time, but all their attempts failed. Weeks before the company’s bankruptcy, an investor stepped in and invested $150 million dollars in Apple. This investment kept Apple from bankruptcy. The next year Steve Jobs unveiled the iMac, and it was a hit. In 2001, Apple declared that they had sold 5 million iMacs. If it weren’t because of this investor, Apple wouldn’t have been able to make the iMac, and Apple would’ve faded like so many other companies have. We wouldn’t have iPhones, Macs, Apple Watches, and all the things that Apple influenced to happen.
This one investor saved Apple from bankruptcy, but who was it? Well if you thought Ronald Mcdonald, you’d be wrong. No, the investor was someone who worked in the same field as Apple, but as a competitor. The investor was none other than Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft. Why would someone who works at a competitor invest $150 million dollars in Apple? Well, to find that out, we need to go back. Back to the 80s, 15 years before the iMac was even released. This is the story of how Bill Gates saved Apple.
In the early 80s, Apple was on top. After the recent success of the Apple II computer which introduced Color Graphics into a computer for the first time, sales jumped from just $7.8 million dollars in 1978 to a whopping $117 million in 1980. Apple was doing really well.
But not everyone was happy with Apple’s growth. Steve Wozniak, who was the co-founder of Apple, was progressively getting less and less happy with Apple as time went by. Wozniak worked best in small teams, but as time went on and Apple grew, so did their team. This caused Wozniak to lose interest in Apple and felt less at home in Cupertino, where Apple was run. Wozniak eventually started to grow away from Apple, participating in more events away from Apple, and eventually left the company in February of 1985
Apple wasn’t always big.
In June of 2023, Apple became the first company to ever top a 3 trillion dollar market cap. In this day and age, Apple is a household name. From phones to computers to even watches; everyone has the name Apple Inc. in their head somewhere. But it wasn’t always this way.
In the 90s, Microsoft’s business was booming. The GUI innovations that Microsoft was making with their Windows operating system left Apple in the dust. Between 1995-1998, Mac sales dropped a terrifying 40%. On the contrary, the sales of Windows PCs more than doubled in that same amount of time. Apple was in trouble. Apple tried time and time again to “bring back the macintosh” in this time, but all their attempts failed. Weeks before the company’s bankruptcy, an investor stepped in and invested $150 million dollars in Apple. This investment kept Apple from bankruptcy. The next year Steve Jobs unveiled the iMac, and it was a hit. In 2001, Apple declared that they had sold 5 million iMacs. If it weren’t because of this investor, Apple wouldn’t have been able to make the iMac, and Apple would’ve faded like so many other companies have. We wouldn’t have iPhones, Macs, Apple Watches, and all the things that Apple influenced to happen.
This one investor saved Apple from bankruptcy, but who was it? Well if you thought Ronald Mcdonald, you’d be wrong. No, the investor was someone who worked in the same field as Apple, but as a competitor. The investor was none other than Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft. Why would someone who works at a competitor invest $150 million dollars in Apple? Well, to find that out, we need to go back. Back to the 80s, 15 years before the iMac was even released. This is the story of how Bill Gates saved Apple.
In the early 80s, Apple was on top. After the recent success of the Apple II computer which introduced Color Graphics into a computer for the first time, sales jumped from just $7.8 million dollars in 1978 to a whopping $117 million in 1980. Apple was doing really well.
But not everyone was happy with Apple’s growth. Steve Wozniak, who was the co-founder of Apple, was progressively getting less and less happy with Apple as time went by. Wozniak worked best in small teams, but as time went on and Apple grew, so did their team. This caused Wozniak to lose interest in Apple and felt less at home in Cupertino, where Apple was run. Wozniak eventually started to grow away from Apple, participating in more events away from Apple, and eventually left the company in February of 1985
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Am I loyal to them, not by any strech of the imagination.