company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops and sells consumer electronics, computer software and online services. It is considered one of the Big Five companies in the US. Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in April 1976. In 1996, the Apple brand was borderin was no big idea of what Apple stood for. After Steve Jobs came into Apple in 1997, everything he did was built around the big idea of "making technology so simple that everyone can be part of the future." He took a consumer-first approach to gadgets, bits and bytes in the m