American multinational company, founded in 1976 as Apple Computer Inc.
Manufacturer of consumer electronics.
Apple has had great success with Mac (computers), iPod (music player), iPhone (Smartphone) and Ipad (tablet).
Developer operating system is OS X (Mac) and iOS (iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad / Apple TV).
Apple is also developing software that Itunes (multimedia), Aperture (editing) and Final Cut Studio (film and sound production).
Tim Cook named CEO in 2011 as one of the founders, Steve Jobs, died.
Apple is the U.S. magazine Fortune Magazine named the most admired company in the world in 2008-12.
company is criticized for its business practices, including working conditions of workers at Foxconn factories in Taiwan (where many of Apple’s products are produced).
Source: Great Norwegian Encyclopedia
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