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What is Apple?

Apple is an American computer and consumer electronic company famous for creating the iPhone, iPad and Macintosh computers.Apple manufacture computers, smartphones, tablet computer, computer peripheral, computer software, computer hardware and one of the most recognisable brand in the world. It was the first successful personal computer company and the popularizer of  the graphical user interface. Apple is one of the largest companies globally with a market cap of over 2 trillion dollars

Apple devices are renowned for their design aesthetic and attention to detail. Tight integration between hardware and software gives their systems a performance advantage over competitor systems with similar specification. The headquartered of Apple company is in Cupertino, California.

Biggest Company in the World

Apple is the world biggest company by market capitalization, and with US$394.3 billion the largest technology company by 2022 revenue. As of June 2022, Apple is the fourth-largest personal computer vendor by unit sales. the largest manufacturing company by revenue and the second largest mobile phone manufacture in the world. It is considered one of the big five American information technology companies alongside Alphabet(parent company of Google), Amazon, Meta Platforms, and Microsoft.

Apple Mac

The Mac, short for Macintosh, is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple. Macs are capable of all the same general function as PCs, such as word processing, playing music and videos, games, accessing the internet and more. Most features require different program than those on a PC.

Mac is much differ from PC, as Mac is a specific brand of personal computer produced by Apple. While Macs can run most operating systems, Mac OS is the standard. On the other hand, the term PC usually refers to a computer operating on a window OS. However, a PC may also use a Unix operating system, such as Linux or FreeBSD.

Mac is much popular among students, creative professionals, and software engineers. The current product consist of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops, and the iMac, Mac mini, Mac Studio and Mac Pro desktop computers. 

Apple also sells pro apps such as Final Cut Pro for video production, Logic Pro for musicians and producers, and Xcode for software developers. 

iPhone

The iPhone is Apple line of smartphones, which run the iOS operating system. The first iPhone was released by Steve Jobs on January 9,2007. Since then new models have been released annually. When it was introduced, its multi-touch screen was described as ''revolutionary'' and a ''game-changer'' for the mobile phone industry in all over the world.The device has been credited with creating the app economy.

As of 2022, the iPhone has 15% market share, yet represents 50% of global smartphone revenues, with Android phones accounting for the rest. The iPhone has generated large profits for the company, and is credited with helping to make Apple one of the world most valuable publicly traded company.

The most recent iPhone are the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max.   

Ipad

The iPad is Apple's line of tablets which run iPadOS. The first-generation iPad was announced on January 27, 2010. The iPad is mainly marketed for consuming multimedia, creating art, working on documents, videoconferencing, and playing games. The iPad lineup consists of several base iPad models, and the smaller iPad Mini, upgraded iPad Air, and high-end iPad Pro. Apple has consistently improved the iPad's performance, with the iPad Pro adopting the same M1 and M2 chips as the Mac; but the iPad still receives criticism for its limited OS.

As of September 2020, Apple has sold more than 500 million iPads, though sales peaked in 2013. The iPad still remains the most popular tablet computer by sales as of the second quarter of 2020, and accounted for nine percent of the company's revenue as of the end of 2021.

Apple sells several iPad accessories, including the Apple Pencil, Smart Keyboard, Smart Keyboard Folio, Magic Keyboard, and several adaptors.

Other Product

Apple also makes many other product that it categorizes as ''Wearables, Home and Accessories. These product include the AirPods lines of wireless headphones, Apple Tv digital media players, Apple Watch smartwatches, Beats headphones and HomePod Mini smart speaker.

As of the end of 2021, this broad line of products comprises about 11% of the company revenues.

At 2023, Apple introduced its new VR headset, Vision Pro, along with with visionOS. Apple announced that it will be partnering with Unity to bring existing 3D appa to Vision Pro using Unity PolySpatial technology.

Apple is the world most successful company, apple has a very simple yet powerful motive to manufacture products. Apple devices are popular for their design aesthetic.