Apple turns this 2025 40 years in Spain and to celebrate it has decided to organize an event that will feature several musical stars and will take place this Wednesday at Puerta del Sol in Madrid. ‘The meeting’ is the name of the party, from the outset open and freewith which the bitten apple company seeks to pay tribute to Spanish culture and creativity.
It will do so with the participation of four artists: the singers Amaia Romero, Dellafuente and Israel Fernandez and the guitarist Yerai Cortes. That is, pop, flamenco and fusion. Apple has not given many details about the format and it is unknown if they will perform independent performances or share the stage or both.
‘The meeting’ will start this afternoon Wednesday, November 19 at 8:00 p.m. to ‘celebrate and connect with the public in the heart of the city’. It will take place in a setting that the company is setting up in Puerta del Sol, where it has one of its best-known stores in Spain and also its offices, and an influx is expected around the 15,000 people.
40 years of Apple in Spain
Although Apple computers could already be purchased in Spain before 1985that was the year the company was officially established by opening Apple Computer S.A. in Madrid.
At that time, the company’s best-selling computer was the Apple IIe. This was the most successful model within the family Apple II and had a price around 350,000 pesetaswhich made it a product, in relation to salaries at that time, much more expensive than the brand’s current computers and the competition it faced.
Other successful computers of the time were much more affordable, although they were not as focused on the professional sector as the Apple IIe. He ZX Spectrum+ (48k) It cost about 35,000 pesetas, the Commodore 64 about 50,000 and the Amstrad CPC 464 around 65,000.
In its beginnings, Apple also brought to Spain the Apple IIccompact and, relatively speaking, portable version of the Apple II, and one of the first Macs, the Macintosh 128K/512K.
Years passed and the ups and downs of the company came, which began to gain its current position at the end of the 90s, after the return of Steve Jobs in 1997. The computer iMac G3the one with translucent colors that was launched in 1998, was its first successful product in this new stage. More computers followed and the iPod in 2001, a huge bestseller that revolutionized the music industry.
iPods and other MP3 players were killed by Apple with the launch of the iPhone in 2007, which is the device that has made Apple what it is today, and which was followed by others such as the iPad or the Apple Watch.
Apple opened its first stores in Spain, in Madrid and Barcelona, in 2010. Currently, the company has a total of 12distributed between these two cities and Murcia, Marbella, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza.