- Headquarters
- Cupertino, United States · North America
- Value chain
- Hardware & devices(Products); also Design
- What that means
- Makes physical products under its own name: computers, robots, vehicles, aircraft, drones, satellites, batteries, solar modules, reactors and medical devices.
- Founded
- 1976
- Staff
- 164,000 (2024)
- Ownership
- Listed
- Listing
- Nasdaq:AAPL on Google Finance
- Website
- apple.com
- Relevance
- Very high at its strongest, in Human-Machine Interfaces
Cupertino, United StatesIn 3 capabilities
Each capability the company is listed in, most relevant first: how experts in the field see its global relevance there, why it is listed and the source.
- Human-Machine InterfacesVery high
Robotics & Autonomous Systems · Design · listed #2 of 50
It makes the Vision Pro spatial computer with eye- and hand-tracking input, and is the second-largest international patent applicant in this capability.
Relevance: Vision Pro sets spatial computing interaction frontier
Semiconductors & Advanced Computing · Design · listed #9 of 50
Designs its own A-series and M-series SoCs and modems in-house, and is usually first to market on TSMC's leading-edge nodes.
Relevance: In-house SoCs first on leading-edge nodes; highly influential designer
Quantum Technologies · Integration · listed #12 of 50
Apple runs the PQ3 post-quantum protocol in iMessage for hundreds of millions of devices and adds ML-KEM hybrid TLS across its operating systems.
Relevance: PQ3 deployed to hundreds of millions of devices