Apple
苹果
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, online services, and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the iPod media player, the iPhone smartphone, and the iPad tablet computer. Its online services include iCloud, iTunes Store, and App Store. Apple's consumer software includes the OS X and iOS operating systems, the iTunes media browser, the Safari web browser, and the iLife and iWork creativity and productivity suites.
苹果公司是美国一家跨国企业，总部设在加利福尼亚州库比蒂诺，主要业务是设计、开发和销售消费性电子产品、计算机软件、在线服务和个人计算机。该公司最著名的硬件产品是Mac电脑系列、iPod媒体播放器、iPhone智能手机和iPad平板电脑；在线服务包括iCloud、iTunes 商店和应用商店；消费性软件包括OS X和iOS操作系统、iTunes多媒体浏览器、Safari网络浏览器，还有iLife和iWork创意和生产力套件。
Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976, to develop and sell personal computers. It was incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. on 3 January, 1977, and was renamed as Apple Inc. on 9 January, 2007, to reflect its shifted focus towards consumer electronics.
苹果公司由史蒂夫·乔布斯、史蒂夫·沃兹尼克和罗纳德·韦恩于1976年4月1日成立，开发和销售个人计算机。1977年1月3日苹果正式成为苹果电脑公司，并于2007年1月9日改名为苹果公司，以反映该公司将业务重点转向消费性电子产品。
Apple is the world's second-largest information technology company by revenue after Samsung Electronics, and the world's third-largest mobile phone maker. On 25 November, 2014, in additional to being the largest publicly traded corporation in the world by market capitalization, Apple became the first U. S. company to be valued at over $700 billion.
从收益来看，苹果公司是仅次于三星电子的世界第二大信息技术公司，也是世界第三大手机制造商。2014年11月25日，苹果公司不仅是全球市值最高的公共交易公司，也是美国第一家价值超过7 000亿美元的公司。
