The ENTIRE Story of Apple in 15 Minutes!

The history of Apple and the Steve Jobs story: how two friends in a Los Altos garage built a computer company, lost it, nearly watched it die, and turned it into a $5 trillion giant. This Apple history documentary covers Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne's $800 exit, the Apple I and Apple II, the 1980 IPO, Xerox PARC, the Macintosh and the 1984 ad, Jobs being pushed out, NeXT and Pixar, Apple's near-bankruptcy, the Microsoft deal, the iMac, the iPod and iTunes, the iPhone and the App Store, Tim Cook's software and services era, and the start of a new hardware era under John Ternus. In 1997, Apple was losing more than a billion dollars a year, and Steve Jobs would later say it was about 90 days from going broke. A rival CEO said that if he ran Apple, he would shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders. In July 2026, Apple became only the second company in history to be worth $5 trillion, and more than 2.5 billion Apple devices are in use around the world. This documentary follows the complete history of Apple: the orchards of Santa Clara Valley, the back of the fence, the blue box, the Homebrew Computer Club, the Byte Shop order, the $666.66 Apple I, Mike Markkula's investment, the rainbow logo, VisiCalc, the biggest IPO since Ford, the Lisa, the pirate flag, "sugared water", the 1984 Super Bowl ad, Siberia, the first web server, Toy Story, the Newton, Mac clones, Copland, the $429 million NeXT deal, the $150 million Microsoft investment, the 2x2 product grid, Think Different, the Bondi blue iMac, the first Apple Store, 1,000 songs in your pocket, 99-cent songs, Project Purple, the iPhone keynote, the App Store, Tim Cook, AirPods, Apple Silicon, $1, $2 and $3 trillion, the US antitrust lawsuit, the EU fine, the Gemini-powered Siri deal, $5 trillion, and the foldable iPhone Duo. A garage was where it started. A boardroom pushed its founder out. Its biggest rival kept it alive. And in 2026, a hardware engineer is holding the folding phone. Let's see where the new CEO takes Apple. This Apple documentary is built on company filings, press releases, books and verified reporting. Illustrations are AI-assisted and hand-directed; narration is AI-voiced. CHAPTERS 0:00 How big Apple is today 0:46 The valley, Woz and Jobs 2:00 Homebrew and the Apple I 3:30 Apple II and the IPO 4:43 Xerox, Lisa and the Macintosh 6:04 Jobs is pushed out: NeXT and Pixar 6:55 Apple drifts toward bankruptcy 7:55 The return of Steve Jobs 9:04 The iMac and Apple Stores 9:42 iPod and iTunes 10:26 The iPhone and the App Store 11:10 Goodbye, Steve 11:30 The Tim Cook era: software and services 12:26 $1 trillion, Apple Silicon, $3 trillion 12:50 Cracks: lawsuits, fines and the AI race 13:23 The hardware era: John Ternus and iPhone Duo 14:04 Why Apple survived SOURCES Isaacson, W. (2011), Steve Jobs, Simon & Schuster Wozniak, S. and Smith, G. (2006), iWoz, W. W. Norton Apple Computer, Inc. (1980), Prospectus for Initial Public Offering Apple Computer, Inc. (1996), Apple Computer, Inc. Agrees to Acquire NeXT Software Inc. Apple Computer, Inc. (1997), Form 10-K, Fiscal Year 1997 Apple Computer, Inc. (1998), Form 10-K, Fiscal Year 1998 Jobs, S. (2005), Stanford Commencement Address, Stanford University Apple Inc. (2007), Apple Reinvents the Phone with iPhone Apple Inc. (2008), iPhone App Store Downloads Top 10 Million in First Weekend Apple Inc. (2011), Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple Apple Inc. (2020), Apple Unleashes M1 United States v. Apple Inc. (2024), Complaint, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey European Commission (2025), Commission Finds Apple and Meta in Breach of the Digital Markets Act Apple Inc. (2025), Form 10-K, Fiscal Year 2025 CNN (2026), Apple Teams Up with Google Gemini for AI-Powered Siri Apple Inc. (2026), Tim Cook to Become Apple Executive Chairman; John Ternus to Become Apple CEO Yahoo Finance (2026), Apple Tops $5 Trillion Market Cap, Only Second Company to Hit the Milestone CNBC (2026), Apple Event: Folding iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro and More #HistoryOfApple #Apple #AppleHistory #SteveJobs #SteveJobsStory #TimCook #iPhone #BusinessDocumentary #HistoryDocumentary #CompanyHistory #BusinessHistory #TechHistory #Documentary #Macintosh