EECS 441 Company Presentation

1. Apple Inc.
What's it all about?
Nolan Astrein

2. The Birth of Apple
Founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Woz and
Ronald Wayne (that other dude)
In 1976, Apple I went on sale for $666.66
Jobs left in 1985 and returned in 1997
During the "Job-less" period, Apple
experienced major decline

3. Apple's Products

4. What's Hot
Retina displays
iPhone 5
Thunderbolt

5. Financial Stuff

6. Competitors
Google - Phones, computers, tablets, browsers,
cloud storage and MAPS
Microsoft - Phones, computers, tablets,
browsers and MAPS
Samsung - Phones and design
Amazon - Tablets

7. Story Time
Mac OS and iOS operating systems are
descendants from the NeXTSTEP operating
system.
Reason for Unix-like operating system.
Much of the Foundation framework pays
homage to NeXTSTEP

8. Secret Sauce
Direction from upper management
Dedication to design and marketing
Apple Stores
Ability to cannibalise old products

9. Future of Apple...
Merge the phone and computer products
More manufacturing in America
Bendable glass
Make LLVM the de facto compiler infrastructure

10. Predictions
Apple will continue to succeed!

11. The End