company headquartered in California that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. The company's hardware products include the iPhone smartphone, the iPad tablet computer, the Mac personal computer, the iPod portable media player, the Apple smartwatch, and the Apple TV Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in April 1976 to develop and sell personal computers. It was incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. in January 1977, and was renamed as Apple Inc. in January 2007 to reflect its shifted focus toward consumer electronics In 1984, Apple launched the Macintosh, the first personal computer to be sold without a programming language The company employs 115,000 full-time employees as of July 2015 and 478 retail stores in seventeen countries as of March 2016. It operates the online Apple Store and iTunes Store The first-generation iPhone was released on June 29, 2007, for $499 (4 GB) and $599 (8 GB) with an AT&T contract.[202] On February 5, 2008, it was updated to have 16 GB of memory And apple products for 2018 are iPhone SE2, iPhone 8, new iPad air, iPad mini, iPad pro 2, apple watch series 3 and apple TV