Steve Jobs Timeline

1976 Apr 1 Apple Computer Founded
The Forgotten Founder The bigger story here is that the two Steves weren't alone in forming Apple. Just as Soviet propagandists doctored photos to remove party members who had fallen o...
1976 Jul Apple I Computer Kit Introduced, Costs $666.66
Steve W. and Steve J. got some money together and had some printed circuit boards made, then planned to sell the computer as a kit. This is also when they officially formed the "Apple Com...
1977 Jan Apple Commissions New Logo
"Don't make it cute." —Steve Jobs
1977 Apr 16 Apple II is Released
"A lot of features of the Apple II went in because I had designed Breakout for Atari. I had designed it in hardware. I wanted to write it in software now. So that was the reason that color..." —Steve Wozniak
1984 Jan 22 Apple Releases Groundbreaking MacPaint with Macintosh
MacPaint was a bitmap-based graphics painting software program developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh personal computer on January 22, 1984. It was sold sepa...
1984 Jan 24 Apple Macintosh Introduced
Steve Jobs began working on the Apple Lisa in 1978 but in 1982 he was pushed from the Lisa team due to infighting, and took over Jef Raskin's low-cost-computer project, the Macintosh. A t...
1985 Sep 16 Steve Jobs Quits Apple Following His Removal from Managerial Duties by Apple's Board
In 1985, a power struggle developed between Jobs and CEO John Sculley, who had been hired two years prior. Apple's board of directors sided with Sculley and Jobs was removed from his mana...
1986 Feb 3 The Graphics Group is Renamed Pixar Studios after Steve Jobs Purchases it from George Lucas
Pixar was founded as the Graphics Group, one third of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm that was launched in 1979 with the hiring of Dr. Ed Catmull from the New York Institute of Technol...
1989 Sep 20 Release of the Macintosh Portable, Apple's Unsuccessful First Attempt at a Portable Computer
The Macintosh Portable was Apple Computer's first attempt at making a battery-powered portable Macintosh personal computer that held the power of a desktop Macintosh. Released on Septe...
1994 May 16 Apple Releases PowerBook 500
The PowerBook 500 series (codenamed Blackbird) was a range of Apple Macintosh PowerBook portable computers first introduced by Apple Computer with the 540c model on 16 May 1994. The 500 s...
1997 Sep 16 Steve Jobs Rejoins Apple as Interim CEO
Jobs was initially reluctant to take a role at Apple. His other company, Pixar, had just released its first movie, Toy Story, to great acclaim. But he soon found himself putting in more t...
1998 Aug 15 Apple Releases the iMac G3
Aesthetically, the iMac was dramatically different from any other mainstream computer ever released. It was made of translucent "Bondi Blue"-colored plastic, and was egg-shaped around a 1...
1999 Aug 31 Apple Releases Power Mac G4
The original Apple Power Mac G4, code name "Yikes!", was introduced at the Seybold conference in San Francisco on August 31, 1999, with 400 MHz, 450 MHz and 500 MHz configurations availab...
2000 Jul 19 Apple Releases the Power Mac G4 Cube
Stunningly compact, the Power Mac (not Macintosh) G4 Cube came as a surprise, despite numerable contradictory rumors. Just 7.7" square and a bit under 10" tall, the Cube does everything t...
2001 Jan 9 Steve Jobs Announces PowerBook G4, along with the New iTunes Music Player Application
The first generations of the PowerBook G4 were announced at Steve Jobs' keynote at MacWorld Expo in January 2001. They featured a PowerPC G4 processor running at either 400 or 500 MHz. Th...
2001 Mar 24 Apple Launches OS X v10.0, Codenamed "Cheetah"
Mac OS X version 10.0, code named “Cheetah”, is the first major release of Mac OS X, Apple’s desktop and server operating system. Mac OS X v10.0 was released on March 24, 2001 for a price...
2001 Oct 23 First iPod Released
Apple introduced the first-generation iPod on October 23, 2001, with the slogan "1,000 songs in your pocket". The first iPod had a black and white LCD (liquid-crystal display) screen and ...
2002 Jan 7 Apple Introduces Complete Redesign of iMac
The 2002 iMac is definitely different with its 10.5" base and 15" flat panel display. Definitely different. Steve Jobs says the design was inspired by a sunflower. All models feature a...
2006 Jan 10 Apple Introduces iMac Core Duo
Apple has begun referring to this model as the iMac (Early 2006), but we're calling it the iMac Core Duo. Maybe we'll switch to Apple's nomenclature when the next generation is released.....
2006 Feb 14 MacBook Pro Announced during Steve Jobs' MacWorld Expo Keynote Address
CUPERTINO, California—February 14, 2006—Apple® this week will begin shipping the new 15-inch MacBook™ Pro notebook computer featuring the new Intel Core Duo processor which delivers up to...
2006 May 16 First MacBook Released
The MacBook is a brand of Macintosh notebook computers by Apple Inc. First introduced in May 2006, it replaced the iBook and 12" PowerBook series of notebooks as a part of the Apple Intel...
2006 Aug 7 Apple Releases Mac Pro
An Intel-based replacement for the Power Mac G5 had long been expected prior to the release of the Mac Pro. The iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook and MacBook Pro had moved to an Intel-based archite...
2007 Jan 9 Apple Computer, Inc. Changes Name to Apple, Inc. 30 Years After Founding
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and manufactures consumer electronics and computer software products. The company's best-known hardware products include M...
2007 Jan 9 Apple Unveils iPhone
Capping literally years of speculation on perhaps the most intensely followed unconfirmed product in Apple's history -- and that's saying a lot -- the iPhone has been announced today. Yea...
2008 Apr 28 Apple Releases iMac with Intel Penryn Processor
Apple has updated the iMac with Intel's more efficient Penryn processor, which has a larger level 2 cache and includes the SSE4 instruction set. The iMac has also moved from an 800 MHz sy...
2008 Jul 10 Apple, Inc. Opens App Store via Update to iTunes
The App Store is a service for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad created by Apple Inc. which allows users to browse and download applications from the iTunes Store that were developed with ...
2009 Jun 20 The Wall Street Journal Breaks Story of Steve Jobs Liver Transplant at Undisclosed Date and Location
Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple Inc. since January to treat an undisclosed medical condition, received a liver transplant in Tennessee about two months ago. The chief...
2010 Jan 27 Apple Announces iPad
Apple's development of a tablet computer began with the Newton MessagePad 100, which was introduced in 1993. The effort led to the creation of the ARM6 processor core with Acorn Computers...
2010 Apr 30 Apple Releases iPad with Wi-Fi + 3G
Apple on Friday released the 3G version of its iPad tablet. There are two versions of the iPad – one with Wi-Fi capability and another with Wi-Fi plus 3G. The Wi-Fi version was release...
2010 Jun 7 Apple Announces Long-Anticipated iPhone 4
"I think it’s a lot more than people thought it was" —Steve Jobs
2011 Oct 5 Steve Jobs Dies
Steven P. Jobs, the charismatic technology pioneer who co-founded Apple Inc. and transformed one industry after another, from computers and smartphones to music and movies, has died. He w...