In 1976, a 41-year-old engineer sold his 10 percent of a 12-day-old computer company for 800 dollars. Twenty-one years later, that company had just lost more than a billion dollars in a single year, and a rival said he would shut it down. This month, it closed above 5 trillion dollars for the first time.

This animated documentary tells how Apple got there: Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, the blue boxes and the Homebrew Computer Club, the Apple I and the truth about the famous Los Altos garage, Ronald Wayne's exit, the Apple II and the 1980 IPO, the 1984 Macintosh, Jobs's ouster, NeXT and Pixar, the near-bankruptcy of 1997 and Microsoft's 150 million dollar investment, the iMac, iPod and iTunes, the iPhone and the App Store, and the Tim Cook years, from services and Apple silicon to the handover to John Ternus in 2026.

Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:50 Two Steves 2:10 The Garage 3:59 The Apple II 5:19 1984 6:44 Exile 7:45 Ninety Days 9:16 The Comeback 10:36 The Phone 11:51 After Steve 13:30 How Apple Became an Icon

Every major claim is fact-checked against company filings, Apple's own announcements, the Computer History Museum and major news reporting. Real people are shown as stylised illustrations, and no company logos are used.

This video includes burned-in English subtitles.

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