Appleball

Appleball (Known as Apple Inc) Is an American technology ball responsible for some pretty (literally) famous products. He is the biggest technology company by revenue. He was born in April 1, 1976. For a couple of years he was small until the release of the Macintosh (known today as the iMac) due to it being the first (non) pc to have a GUI. Sometime later (not to long) Microsoftwindow (Born just a couple of months before him on 1975) released Windowswindow. Apple attempted to take MS to court due to (GUI infringement, also before this Apple and MS were friends with Windows originally being software for Mac) The suit failed though and he has been overshadowed by MS until 2003 when MacOS (Due tue it’s “shiny” GUI) began to take traction. On 2007 he received a lot of attention for making and releasing the world’s first smartphone the iPhone. He has been one of the biggest and most well known companies since then.

Early years
On April 1, 1976, Apple was created by three men, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. Two weeks later Ronald left Apple. Three months later he released the Apple I for 666 (Uh oh) dollars. 200 Apple 1s were sold.

The next couple of years would be decent. He released the Apple II, Apple II plus and an accessory called the “Disc II” and reading the Apple III. He had also grown (maybe even) overtaking RadioShackball as the leader (Still small because the computer market was niche at the time)

IBMball had joined the market but Apple did not care (at all). In fact he took IBM for granted as he (Apple) had all the advantages at the time. But this would harm him though (As quoted by Bill gates, who was at the Apple HQ at the time, see what I told Ya?) In just under 3 years IBM had 56% market share compared to Apple’s 16% (Mainly being small Businesses, Homes and schools)

He had began and made the Apple Lisa, a new revolutionary system that had introduced GUI and many terms used today including: Icon, Desktop, Mouse and others. It failed to sell well because of its high price, 9k (27k in 2021)

The years
In 1984 after years of development he finally released the Macintosh. There was a commercial for the Macintosh called 1984. It concerns the novel “1984” and revolves around the plot that a heroine “introduces” the Macintosh to save humanity. The commercial cost 1,000,000 $.

There were problems though. The Mac failed to penetrate the IBM PC, there wasn’t much software for it, and some disliked it, considering it a toy. Ultimately Jobs and Wozniak would leave Apple.

Although the Mac was released the Apple II would be the source of income for apple for some time. The Mac would eventually become a product line with products like the Mac II, Mac SE, Mac classic and Mac LC. Apple also registered the Apple.com domain making it one of the first 100 comps to register the .com domain.

Troubles
PCs only grew in Popularity due to MS releasing Windows 3.0 (Apple attempted to sue but that went nowhere) After lost of mismanagement the company neared bankruptcy and he (Apple) decided that he had to buy another Operating system. Candidates were Sun Microsystem’s Solaris and Microsoft’s Windows NT (Ironic) Amello called Bill gates and Bill promised that MS engineers would port QuickDraw to Windows.

Comeback
In 1997 the legend finally returned. At the 1997 Expo Jobs announced a deal with MS that would include a MS release for Mac and a 150 million dollar investment. Long standing disputes over UI infringement were solved. Bill gates appears on screen at the expo explaining plans for developing software for Mac and announced his excitement to help make Apple prosper again.

The revolutionary years
In 1998 he released the iMac witch was a big success. His next biggest product was OS X in 2000. Then again he would develop a new groundbreaking product: The iPod in 2001. The next was the iPhone. The iPhone was a true revolutionary sensation and would eventually displace market leaders such as Nokia and Microsoft (the former who’s phone division was bought by the latter in an attempt to com back to the Mobile phone market but this failed as Windows Phone was declared  obsolete and unsupported in 2020) The iPhone would help Apple become one of the richest companies (but honestly this is due to Apples overprice sh!t and their so called “nice” products) He also released the iPad in 2010. It too was considered an innovation.

Present day
Right now he is the biggest tech company and non tech company by revenue. He also ditched Intelcube’s processors in favor of his own. He ranked 7th on the 2022 edition of the Forbes Global 2000 list. A list of the top 10 biggest global companies.

Personality
W.I.P.

How to draw
W.I.P.

Family

 * Safariball - My Daughter Who Makes Web Browsers WAY BETTER THAN GOOGLE
 * Beatsball - Adoptive son who makes headphones and earbuds

Friends

 * IBMball - Member of the former AIM alliance. We used to be rivals but now, we're fine, also, our Macs used to use your PowerPC chips before we switched to Intel.
 * NeXTcube - He was the one who got me out of near bankruptcy when I integrated it into myself, the macOS operating system has remnants of NeXTSTEP operating system.
 * Ciscoball - A business partner of ours
 * Pixarball - Our founder Steve Jobs created it, it is famous for Toy Story, our Apple Watch even has a Toy Story wallpaper. It's currently living with its adoptive parent Disney
 * Logitech - Makes products for our users and I'm grateful for that, some of them are even on sale in Apple Stores
 * Steve Jobs - Our genius co-founder and CEO, he led us from bankruptcy to success, why did you die from cancer? We will remember you Steve!

Frenemies

 * Steve Wozniak - Co-founder who contributed to my older computers like Apple I and Apple II, he still represented me after he left me, but made some critical comments about me in the past few years
 * Foxconnbird - Major manufacturer of our products, but you are dishonest and your working conditions are poor

Enemies

 * Microsoftwindow - STUPID IDIOT WHO CAN'T MAKE COMPUTERS AND PHONES!
 * - OH COMON! ALL OF YOUR PRODUCTS ARE OVERPRICED PEICES OF CRAP! AND YOU TAKE A STUPID 30% CUT! TALK ABOUT SELFISHNESS! AND MY SURFACE PRODUCTS ARE BETTER THAN YOUR PEICES OF TRASH! I ALSO TEAMED WITH ANDROID AGAINST YOU! But hopefully we can be of friends again plox? We can team against Linux and ChromeOS.
 * Googleball - SAFARI MAKES BETTER BROWSERS. I CAN MAKE WAAY BETTER LAPTOPS THAN YOU
 * Faceblock - DATA STEALER! DON'T THINK THAT CHANGING TO 'META' REPAIRS YOUR REPUTATION!
 * Intelcube - They used to be our chip makers, we switched to Apple Silicon because they did not meet our expectations and that their chips overheat too much, also HOW DARE YOU STEAL MAC GUY FROM ME FOR SOME TRASH GO PC ADS?! EVEN AMD IS BETTER THAN YUO!!! HAH! I RELEASED THE M1 PRO AND M1 MAX! DARE TO MAKE ANOTHER AD AGAIN?
 * Samsungpotato - STUPID POTATO! YOUR PHONES ARE TRASH! SAME FOR YOUR ADS AGAINST ME (you did the same)! YOUR SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 7 ALSO EXPLODED UNLIKE MY PHONES! But other than that, you made chips for our older iPhones so thanks for that!
 * Epic Gamesball - Stop complaining about getting taken down from the App Store, you were violating our policies, even Google agrees to that
 * Apple Corpsball - NAME STEALER!
 * I was founded before you so you're the NAME STEALER!
 * Xiaomicube - CAN YOU JUST STOP COPYING ME YOU COPYCAT?
 * Justin Long (Mac Guy) - YUO! YOU BETRAYED ME BY FEATURING IN INTEL'S GO PC CAMPAIGN! Tbh, I don't really need you anymore since I can hire real actors like Selena Gomez and the U2 Band!
 * EUball - Fine collector, had to pay millions because of stupid laws. I don't want to fully switch to USB-C, also, why are you proposing a law to allow side-loading, it isn't safe and causes privacy problems
 * Product Leakers - STOP LEAKING MY PRODUCTS I'VE SENT WARNING LETTERS SO YOU KNOW...

Trivia
W.I.P.

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