What is the largest Smartphone’s manufacturer in the world? Apple is now can be considered the largest supplier of Smartphone across the globe. According to the trusted research, the company is the fourth largest supplier of mobile phones in the world behind Nokia, Samsung and LG. In the Smartphone OS competition, Android led iOS and BlackBerry in United States market. With the upcoming release of the iPhone 5, the company is attempting to continue its domination of the mobile phone market and put further distance between its competitors in the worldwide mobile selling and production. This ini The Story of Apple.
Initially, Apple (formerly named Apple Computer, Inc.) is an American multinational corporation that produces and distributes consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. Recently, the company has been globally known for its advanced hardware products include the Macintosh desktop computers, MacBook, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad.
Apple has also been produced and developed many popular softwares include the Mac OS X (operating system for personal computer), the iTunes media browser, the iLife (multimedia and creativity software), Aperture (a tools for professional photographer) Logic Studio (music production tools) the Safari web browser and iOS (a mobile operating system).
The Macintosh (also known as Mac) is a line of desktop computers manufactured, developed, and marketed by this company. The original Macintosh was announced on January 24, 1984 and it gained a great success since it was the first personal computer to have a mouse and a graphical user interface. Later, in the 1990s, the company has a true competitor i.e. the Wintel (Windows and Intel) platform running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows.
MacBook is a brand of Macintosh notebook computers manufactured by Apple. Released in May 2006 and it reached the highest-selling Macintosh in history. It consists of MacBook Air and MacBook Pro and it was targeted for the consumer and education markets.
iPod is a line of portable digital media players produced and marketed by Apple released on November 10, 2001. The device is able to play several audio including MP3, AAC/M4A, Protected AAC, AIFF, and WAV file formats. It also has the ability to display JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, and PNG image file formats and to play MPEG-4 (H.264/MPEG-4 AVC) and QuickTime video formats.
The iPhone is a line of internet and multimedia smartphones produced by Apple. It consists of iPhone (original), iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 4. The original iPhone was released in June 29, 2007. The upcoming generation iPhone 5 is expected to be globally released in third quarter of 2011 together with the iOS 5.0 release.
The iPad is a range of PC tablets manufactured and developed by Apple. This is a great mobile device intended for audio-visual media including books, web content, music, movies and games. It has been equipped with the same OS as the iPod and iPhone. Moreover, it is able to run its own applications as well as iPhone applications. [IS]
