Apple was started by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak on April 1, 1976. Wozniak and Jobs were college dropouts. The whole purpose for their company was to make ‘User Friendly” computers and to make the computers small enough to fit in homes or offices. They finally hit it big with their Apple II computers. The Apple II was so big because it was the first computer that used color graphics.
The first product that I will discuss is called Airport Express, which looks like the Apple TV today. This product was used as a router to increase the efficiency of your network with the extra help of another router such as Airport extreme and Time Capsule. This product also had audio output on the back of this device to help when you connect to a stereo. Unfortunately, this product was discontinued.
Another notable product is iPod Hi-Fi (2006), which is an accessory for the iPod that can connect to an iPod and lets you get access to your music. The iPod sits in an upward stance on top of the speaker. This product came with a remote and could even charge the iPod while it sat on top of the speaker. The speaker is portable. It comes with handles which help make the speaker more portable. This product was only on the market for two years.
The third product that I will be discussing is the Mighty Mouse. This mouse had a scroll ball, instead of a scroll wheel which lets you scroll diagonally, that allowed you to scroll side to side as well as up and down. This mouse also lets you access expose easily. All you need to do to access it is to squeeze the mouse because there were two pressure sensitive buttons. The Magic Mouse now does not have this feature. The downfall of this product was because the track ball would become easily clogged with dirt and debris over time
The next interesting product that I will be discussing is MAC OSX Snow Leopard. This product is used for maintenance and to update components focusing on performance and stability. Back then you would have to pay Apple for their software updates. It would cost one hundred and twenty-nine dollars (MAC OS Leopard). With this product, it only cost twenty-nine dollars. With the success of this product, Apple decided not to charge people for software updates.
The final product that I will be discussing is the iPod Mini. As the name applies to this product, it is a smaller version of the normal sized iPod. This product was announced on January 6, 2004, and was released February 20th in the same year. This line was discontinued on September 7, 2005. Then it was replaced by iPod Nano. Before this was taken off shelves, it had a touch-sensitive wheel. It also used a “click wheel.” Now the fourth, fifth and sixth generations use the “click wheel” mechanic.
