Steve Jobs
American businessman and inventor
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| 2025 | Visited India for Maha Kumbh Mela. |
| January 16 2025 | Received the Gross National Happiness Medal from the Kingdom of Bhutan, recognizing her contributions to social and humanitarian efforts. |
| 2024 | Wozniak sued YouTube regarding a scam using his likeness and later won after a court ruled YouTube liable for not addressing the issue. |
| 2024 | Apple was ranked No. 3 in the Fortune 500 list. |
| 2024 | Purchased the most expensive residential property in San Francisco, valued at $70 million, located in Palo Alto, California. |
| December 2024 | The Democratic Republic of the Congo filed a lawsuit against Apple's European subsidiaries regarding conflict minerals. |
| December 31 2024 | Apple filed a preliminary settlement for $95 million to resolve a lawsuit alleging unauthorized Siri recordings and privacy violations. |
| November 1 2024 | Apple announced its acquisition of Pixelmator, a company known for image editing applications for iPhone and Mac. |
| June 2024 | The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a report about a potential violation of federal regulations at an Apple-leased electronic manufacturing facility in Santa Clara, California, related to waste management and air filtration practices. |
| June 2024 | Apple introduced Apple Intelligence to incorporate on-device artificial intelligence capabilities. |
| June 24 2024 | The European Commission accused Apple of violating the Digital Markets Act by preventing app developers from freely steering consumers to alternative channels for offers and content. |
| April 2024 | Lawyers representing the Democratic Republic of the Congo notified Apple of evidence regarding potential sourcing of minerals from conflict areas. |
| January 2024 | Apple announced compliance with the European Union's competition law, enabling alternative app stores and payment methods for iOS users in the EU. |
| January 16 2024 | Received the Gross National Happiness Medal from the Kingdom of Bhutan, recognizing her contributions and philanthropic efforts. |
| 2023 | In 2023, Wozniak signed an open letter from the Future of Life Institute, calling for a six-month pause on the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. |
| 2023 | Apple reported a total revenue of $383 billion, with iPhone revenue at $200 billion and maintaining a workforce of 161,000 employees. |
| 2023 | Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reveals the existence of Apple's Exploratory Design Group (XDG), which is working on adding glucose monitoring to the Apple Watch. |
| 2023 | Apple ranked 10th in the World Intellectual Property Organization's Madrid Yearly Review, with 74 trademark applications submitted. |
| 2023 | Ranked as the 25th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. |
| December 2023 | Wozniak became a Serbian citizen and announced plans to promote Serbia while living in the U.S. |
| November 2023 | Wozniak suffered a minor stroke while preparing to speak at a conference in Mexico City but was hospitalized briefly before returning home. |
| August 2023 | Founded Yosemite, a $200 million venture fund focused on cancer treatments, which raised money from prominent institutions like John Doerr, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Rockefeller University, and M.I.T. |
| May 2023 | In May 2023, Wozniak commented in an interview with the BBC that AI's intelligence could make scams more difficult to detect, noting concerns about the potential misuse of AI by bad actors. |
| May 2023 | Apple reported a decline in sales for the first quarter of 2023, with revenue falling 3% compared to 2022. |
| May 19 2023 | Wozniak received an Honorary Doctoral degree from Lincoln Law School in San Jose, California. |
| April 2023 | Apple opened its first physical retail store in India. |
| March 2023 | Apple launched 'Apple Pay Later', a buy now, pay later service for Apple Wallet users. |
| February 2023 | Apple's active product installations exceeded 2 billion devices. |
| 2022 | Wozniak received the museum's Lifetime Achievement Award for his role in the invention of the Apple I & II computers and the co-founding of Apple. |
| 2022 | Apple achieved its highest total revenue of $394 billion, with iPhone revenue reaching $205 billion and employee count growing to 164,000. |
| 2022 | Apple introduced the Mac Studio, a professional small form-factor workstation expanding their Mac computer lineup. |
| July 2022 | Apple reported an 11% decline in Q3 profits compared to 2021, with revenue rising 2% to $83 billion. |
| June 18 2022 | The Apple Store in Towson, Maryland became the first to unionize in the U.S., with employees joining the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. |
| March 30 2022 | Bloomberg News reported that Apple had turned over user data to hackers posing as law enforcement officials using forged documents. |
| March 1 2022 | Privateer Space debuted the first version of its space traffic monitoring software. |
| January 2022 | Ericsson sued Apple over royalty payments for 5G technology. |
| 2021 | Wozniak received the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award for pioneering the design of consumer-friendly personal computers. |
| 2021 | Apple experienced a substantial revenue surge to $365 billion, with iPhone revenue hitting $191 billion and workforce increasing to 154,000 employees. |
| 2021 | Apple opens a second campus near Austin, Texas, employing 6,000 people in technical support, supply chain management, online store curation, and Apple Maps data management. |
| 2021 | Apple Together, a solidarity union, sought to bring together the company's global worker organizations. |
| September 2021 | Wozniak was reported to be starting a company named Privateer Space, addressing the issue of space debris. |
| July 2021 | Wozniak made a Cameo video in response to right to repair activist Louis Rossmann, expressing his emotional connection to the issue. |
| April 2021 | Wozniak became a panelist for the new TV series Unicorn Hunters, a business investment show produced by the makers of The Masked Singer. |
| January 2021 | Apple released the App Tracking Transparency feature in iOS 14, requiring developers to ask users permission to track them, despite criticism from Facebook. |
| 2020 | Wozniak announced the launch of Efforce, a marketplace for funding ecologically friendly projects, utilizing a WOZX cryptocurrency token. |
| December 2020 | Facebook agreed to assist Epic Games in their legal battle against Apple by providing materials and documents for the 2021 trial, while maintaining they would not directly participate in the lawsuit. |
| November 10 2020 | Apple launched the first Macs powered by its own Apple M1 processor: MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini. |
| September 2020 | Apple launched its online store in India. |
| September 2020 | Epic Games founded the Coalition for App Fairness with thirteen other companies to advocate for better conditions for app inclusion in app stores. |
| August 13 2020 | Epic Games sued Apple and Google after Fortnite was removed from their app stores for introducing a direct payment system that bypassed the companies' imposed fees. |
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