Apple Inc.

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Apple Inc

Black (print) Apple logo (1999-present)
Apple Park in Cupertino, California, April 2018
Company type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: AAPL NASDAQ-100 component DJIA component S&P 100 component S&P 500 component]]
ISIN	US0378331005
Industry	Computer hardware Computer software Consumer electronics Digital distribution Semiconductors Fabless silicon design Corporate venture capital
Founded	April 1, 1976; 48 years ago (1976-04-01)
Founders	Steve Jobs Steve Wozniak Ronald Wayne
Headquarters	1 Apple Park Way, Cupertino, California, USA
Number of locations	273 Retail stores in the US and 518 worldwide in 25 countries (2023)
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Arthur D. Levinson (Chairman) Tim Cook (CEO) Jeff Williams (COO)
Products	Macintosh iPod iPhone iPad Apple Watch Apple TV HomePod macOS iOS watchOS tvOS iLife iWork Final Cut Pro Logic Pro Garageband iMovie Numbers Pages Keynote
Services	Apple Pay Apple Store iTunes Store App Store Mac App Store iBooks Store iCloud Apple Music
Revenue	US$229.234 billion[1] (FY 2017)
Operating income	US$61.344 billion[1] (FY 2017)
Net income	US$48.351 billion[1] (FY 2017)
Total assets	US$375.319 billion[1] (FY 2017)
Total equity	US$134.047 billion[1] (FY 2017)
Number of employees	450,000 work directly for Apple and 1,530,000 work in Apple stores (April 2023)[1]
Subsidiaries	Shazam Texture FileMaker Inc. Anobit Braeburn Capital Beats Electronics Beddit Apple Energy, LLC Apple Sales International[2] Apple Worldwide Video[3] Apple Services[4]

Apple Inc. is a multinational company that makes personal computers (the Macintoshes), mobile devices (iPod, iPhone and iPad), and software (macOS, iOS, watchOS and tvOS). Apple calls its computers Macintoshes or Macs, and it calls its laptops MacBooks. Their line of mobile music players is called iPod, their smartphone line is called iPhone and their tablet line is called iPad. Apple Inc. used to be called Apple Computer, Inc., but Apple changed their name after introducing the original iPhone.^[5]

Apple Inc. is a public company and trades on the NASDAQ under the stock ticker AAPL. On March 19, 2015, it became one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} "Apple Form 10-K Annual Report" (PDF). November 3, 2017.
2. ↑ Taylor, Harriet (August 30, 2016). "How Apple managed to pay such a low tax rate in Ireland". Retrieved January 9, 2017.
3. ↑ Koblin, John (March 25, 2018). "Apple Goes to Hollywood. Will Its Story Have a Happy Ending?". The New York Times.
4. ↑ "Apple Looks to Services to Move Beyond iPhone Price Ceiling". Bloomberg News. August 2018.
5. ↑ "Apple drops 'Computer' from name". Macworld. January 9, 2007.