The ENTIRE History of Apple in 20 Minutes

#Apple #AppleHistory #BuiltOnYou The history of Apple and the Steve Jobs story: how Apple started in a garage in Los Altos and became a 5 trillion dollar company built on one thing, the walled garden. This Apple history documentary covers Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, the Apple I and Apple II, the 1984 Macintosh and the Super Bowl ad, Jobs's ouster from Apple, NeXT and Pixar, the 1997 return and the Microsoft rescue deal, the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, the App Store, Tim Cook, Apple Silicon, Apple Intelligence, the Epic v Apple ruling, and the DOJ antitrust case. When Apple went public on December 12, 1980, the stock jumped 32% in a day and the entire company was valued at about $1.7 billion. Today it posts more than $100 billion in a single quarter — $102.5 billion in Q4 fiscal 2025, capping a record $416.16 billion fiscal year — generates about $2.51 million in revenue per employee across roughly 165,000 people, and in July 2026 its market cap briefly passed $5 trillion, making it only the second company in history to get there, less than a year after crossing $4 trillion in October 2025. This documentary follows the complete history of Apple: Steve Jobs's childhood and his adoptive family in Los Altos, Homestead High, Reed College and the calligraphy class, Atari and the road to India, the family garage and the Wozniak prototype, the Homebrew Computer Club, Apple Computer on April 1, 1976, the Apple I and the Byte Shop order, the bitten apple logo, Mike Markkula's check, the Apple II and the West Coast Computer Faire, VisiCalc, the Xerox PARC visit, the Lisa, the Macintosh 1984 and the Ridley Scott ad, the ouster of Jobs at 30, NeXT and the cube, the purchase of Pixar from Lucasfilm, the Sculley years and the Newton, Windows 95 and the collapse of the 90s, 90 days from bankruptcy, the NeXT acquisition, Gil Amelio, Jobs's return in 1997 and the Think Different campaign, the $150 million Microsoft deal at Macworld, the iMac and Jony Ive, the retail stores, the iPod and the iTunes Store, the iPhone keynote of 2007, the App Store, the iPad, the FBI encryption fight, the resignation of August 2011, Tim Cook and the death of Steve Jobs, Apple Maps and the apology, Beats, the Apple Watch, the first US company to $1 trillion in 2018, AirPods, the $2 trillion of 2020, the M1 chip and Apple Silicon, the Epic Games trial, the €13 billion EU tax fight, Vision Pro, Apple Intelligence and the delayed Siri, iPhone 17 and iPhone Air, the DOJ monopoly lawsuit of 2024, the Epic ruling that forced external payment links and returned Fortnite in 2025, Services overtaking the iPhone as Apple's biggest profit engine, the $4 trillion of October 2025, the denial of Apple's motion to dismiss in June 2025, the DOJ settlement talks, record fiscal 2025 earnings, John Ternus named CEO and Tim Cook moved to Executive Chairman on September 1, 2026, iPhone 18 Pro, 22 all-time highs in a single year, and the $5 trillion market cap of July 2026. A garage could not hold it. An ouster could not end it. Ninety days from bankruptcy could not kill it. And in 2026, the thing Apple built to keep everything inside is the thing regulators want opened: not a product, but the wall itself. This Apple documentary is built on company filings, keynote footage, court records, and verified reporting. Every Built On You episode tells the full story of a company, from founder to today, and reveals the one thing it was really built on. SOURCES Wozniak, S. (2006), iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon, W. W. Norton & Company Malone, M. (1999), Infinite Loop: How Apple, the World's Most Insanely Great Computer Company, Went Insane, Aurum Press Schlender, B. and Tetzeli, R. (2015), Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader, Crown Business Isaacson, W. (2011), Steve Jobs, Simon & Schuster Kahney, L. (2019), Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level, Portfolio Jobs, S. (2005), Stanford University Commencement Address Apple Computer, Inc. (1980), Initial Public Offering Prospectus, NASDAQ: AAPL Apple Inc. (2025), "Apple reports fourth quarter results," October 30, 2025 Apple Inc. (2026), "Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman; John Ternus to become Apple CEO," April 2026 United States v. Apple Inc. (2024), Complaint, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey Epic Games, Inc. v. Apple Inc. (2021), Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Epic Games, Inc. v. Apple Inc. (2025), Injunction, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit European Commission (2016), State Aid Decision SA.38373 — Apple's Irish Tax Rulings #HistoryOfApple #Apple #AppleHistory #SteveJobs #SteveJobsStory #TimCook #SteveWozniak #BusinessDocumentary #HistoryDocumentary #CompanyHistory #BusinessHistory #Documentary #IPhone #AppStore #Macintosh #AppleSilicon #TechHistory #BuiltOnYou