Apple was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak as a business partnership and it is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

Apple is an American multinational technology company that produces and sells consumer electronics, computer software and online services, like Macs, iPods, iPhones, and iPads. The company is considered one of the Big Tech technology companies, alongside Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Facebook.

This company is considered the world’s largest technology company by revenue and one of the world’s most valuable companies. It is also the world's third-largest mobile phone manufacturer after Samsung and Huawei. Apple employs 137,000 full-time employees and maintains 510 retail stores in 25 countries as of 2020 and it also operates the iTunes Store, which is the world's largest music retailer.

Apple’s products include the iPhone smartphone, the iPad tablet, the Mac computer, the iPod portable media player, the Apple Watch smartwatch, the Apple TV digital media player, the AirPods wireless earbuds and the HomePod smart speaker. It’s software includes macOS,iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS operating systems, the iTunes media player, the Safari web browser, the Shazam music identifier, and the iLife and iWork creativity and productivity suites.

In 2018, Apple became the first publicly traded U.S. company to be valued at over $1 trillion and just two years later in 2020 became the first $2 trillion U.S. company. It was also ranked No. 4 on the 2020 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.

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