Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL; aforetime Apple Computer, Inc.) is an American bunch association that designs and markets chump electronics, computer software, and claimed computers. The company's best-known accouterments articles accommodate the Macintosh band of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Applecomputer application includes the Mac OS X operating system; the iTunes media browser; the iLife apartment of multimedia and adroitness software; the iWork apartment of abundance software; Aperture, a able photography package; Final Cut Studio, a apartment of able audio and film-industrycomputer application products; Logic Studio, a apartment of music assembly tools; the Safari web browser; and iOS, a adaptable operating system. As of July 2011, the aggregation operates 357 retail food in ten countries,5 and an online abundance area accouterments andcomputer application articles are sold.6 As of September 2011, Apple has afresh been the better about traded aggregation in the apple by bazaar capitalization7, and the better technology aggregation in the apple by acquirement and profit.citation needed

Established on April 1, 1976 in Cupertino, California, and congenital January 3, 1977,8 the aggregation was ahead called Apple Computer, Inc., for its aboriginal 30 years, but removed the chat "Computer" on January 9, 2007,9 to reflect the company's advancing amplification into the chump electronics bazaar in accession to its acceptable focus on claimed computers.10 As of September 2010, Apple had 46,600 abounding time advisers and 2,800 acting abounding time advisers worldwide3 and had common anniversary sales of $65.23 billion.3

For affidavit as assorted as its aesthetics of absolute artful architecture to its characteristic announcement campaigns, Apple has accustomed a different acceptability in the chump electronics industry. This includes a chump abject that is adherent to the aggregation and its brand, decidedly in the United States.11 Fortune annual called Apple the best admired aggregation in the United States in 2008, and in the apple in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.12131415 The aggregation has about accustomed boundless criticism for its contractors' labor, environmental, and business practices.1617