apple Japan official website. Apple Inc. is an American high-tech company founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Roe Wayne, and headquartered in Cupertino, California. Apple is world-renowned for innovation among high-tech companies and is known for products such as the Apple II, the Macintosh calculator, the iPod music player, the iTunes store, the iPhone smartphone, the Mac computer and the iPad tablet computer.