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Tech Giants:
Google, Apple &
Microsoft “The tech industry is an amrican success history” -mark zuckerberg General info APPLE GOOGLE MICROSOFT 1976: Focused on 1998: To organize the 1975: Created revolutionizing world’s information, Windows to power personal tech with known for Google personal and innovative products Search and Android business computing. like iPhone and OS. Dominates business MacBook. Revolutionized tools and is a key Transformed mobile information access, player in gaming and computing and sat smart homes. enterprise solutions. trends with Google Search, Windows OS, Office wearables like Apple Android, AI (Google Suite, Xbox, and Watch Assistant), and Azure cloud services. iPhone, App Store, Google App. and MacBook Apple In 1996 Apple almost got bankrupt! (can you guess why) Apple Because of their overpriced and complicated products like their first Macintosh line. It had different variations of almost the same PC and people just didnt know what they were buuying So Steve Jobs came up with a crazy idea. He asked his old rival, Microsoft, to invest in his company and surprisingly enough Microsoft actually agreed and invested 150 million$ in Apple. Apple Apple simplified their products and made them more visually appealing, which led to iMac, a simple and good-looking PC google Google started as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. Originally called "Backrub". Google was founded in a garage in California. It’s name comes from "googol", a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. Acquired YouTube, making it the world’s leading video-sharing platform. In 2008, they launched the Android operating system, transforming the smartphone industry. google Google wasnt the first search engine, but they did something that others didnt. google Unlike early search engines that ranked pages based on keywords alone, Google’s PageRank ranked pages by relevance and backlinks, providing more accurate results. microsoft In 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in New Mexico, with the goal of creating software for Altair 8800, an early personal computer. Microsoft signed a contract with IBM to provide an operating system for their personal computers Released Windows 3.0 in 1990, which became a huge success, making Microsoft a household name Introduced Windows XP, one of the most successful versions of Windows, and entered the gaming industry with the release of Xbox. Microsoft is a global leader in software, hardware, gaming, and cloud services, with major products like Windows, Microsoft Office, Xbox, and Azure shaping the tech industry. microsoft Microsoft’s popularity started when they signed contract with IBM, a company that specializes on making PC’s, they asked MS to make an operating system for their PC’s, and when the product was launched it blew up immedietly, also making MS recognizable microsoft However, before Microsoft, IBM asked company named Digital Research to make them an operating system. Digital Reasearch made one called CP/M, which was a base for the MS’s OS, but because IBM and Digital Research couldnt make out a deal, their contract was terminated conclusion In summary, Apple, Google, and Microsoft have transformed the world through innovation, design, and technology. Each company carved its own path —Apple with user-focused products, Google with data and AI, and Microsoft with software and cloud services. Together, they’ve shaped how we live, work, and connect, setting the standard for the future of technology. Thank you!