Which came first, Apple or the Macintosh?
Which came first, Apple or the Macintosh?
Apple
1976 — 8 years before the Macintosh
Apple came first, by 8 years. Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne founded Apple Computer Company.
Side by side
| Apple | the Macintosh | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1976 | 1984 |
| Date | 1976-04-01 | 1984-01-24 |
| Category | company | technology |
| What happened | Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne founded Apple Computer Company. | Apple launched the first Macintosh, two days after the Super Bowl advert. |
Apple
Apple was founded on 1 April 1976, a year and a day after Microsoft. Ronald Wayne, the third founder, sold his 10% stake back for $800 twelve days later. The Apple I was a bare circuit board sold for $666.66; the Apple II of 1977 was the machine that made the company.
the Macintosh
The Macintosh launched in January 1984 with a graphical interface and a mouse, and beat Windows to market by almost two years. Neither invented the idea — Xerox PARC had built the Alto in 1973, and both Apple and Microsoft were working from what they had seen there. Mac OS X, the ancestor of today's macOS, arrived much later in 2001 and is Unix underneath.
Common questions
- Which came first, Apple or the Macintosh?
- Apple, by 8 years — 1976 against 1984.
- When did Apple start?
- 1976. Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne founded Apple Computer Company.
- When did the Macintosh start?
- 1984. Apple launched the first Macintosh, two days after the Super Bowl advert.
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Sources
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