Which came first, Apple or Samsung?
Which came first, Apple or Samsung?
Samsung
1938 — 38 years before Apple
Samsung came first, by 38 years. Lee Byung-chul opened a trading company in Daegu, Korea.
Side by side
| Apple | Samsung | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1976 | 1938 |
| Date | 1976-04-01 | 1938-03-01 |
| Category | company | company |
| What happened | Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne founded Apple Computer Company. | Lee Byung-chul opened a trading company in Daegu, Korea. |
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.
Samsung
Samsung began in 1938 as a grocery trading company dealing in dried fish, vegetables and noodles, which it exported to Manchuria. It moved into textiles, insurance and retail before making its first electronic product — a black-and-white television — in 1970. The name means "three stars".
Common questions
- Which came first, Apple or Samsung?
- Samsung, by 38 years — 1938 against 1976.
- When did Apple start?
- 1976. Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne founded Apple Computer Company.
- When did Samsung start?
- 1938. Lee Byung-chul opened a trading company in Daegu, Korea.
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Sources
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