APPLE

Apple Inc. is an American multinational based in Cupertino, Calif., which designs and manufactures electronic equipment and software.The hardware products best known company with Macintosh computers, the iPod, iPhone and the iPad. Among the Apple software are operating system Mac OS X operating system IOS, the iTunes media browser, the iLife suite (multimedia and creativity software), the iWork suite (productivity software), Final Cut Studio (a suite of professional video editing), Logic Studio (audio editing software on audio tracks) Xsan (software for exchanging data between servers), Aperture (RAW image editing software), and the Safari web browser.

The company operates over 317 stores in nine countries, thousands of dealers (mainly premium distributors or Apple Premium Resellers) and an online store (available in several countries) that sell their products and provide technical assistance.

Shares of Apple Inc. collectively worth USD 507.647 million, making it the largest in the world.