Apple is a publicly traded company with the stock symbol of "AAPL" trading on NASDAQ.
There is no real controversy. Apple just sells a superior computer to any Windows computer built. That is where you will see the argument. Most Apple users were former Windows users. You would be hard pressed to find an Apple user that would ever go back to using a Windows PC. And most people that bad mouth Apple have never even owned an Apple computer. I have owned both and Apple just makes a computer that works day in and day out with no problems. Yes, they do cost more but they are well worth the price.
I'm not sure this is your question, but the company "Apple Computer" is a publicly held corporation owned by its stockholders and not by any other larger entity. Apple and Macintosh branded software is published and sold by Apple Computer. As far as the Apple software you may have, it is sort of "owned" by you under license from Apple. See their license terms for details.
They both did, as the computer was made for their company, Apple Computers Inc. of which they were both founders and in a sense they both had the rights since they ran their company at the time the first Apple II or even Apple I
As a corporation, the company is owned by its shareholders, or people who invested money in it.
No, Apple is owned by the shareholders of Apple. YouTube is owned by Google, whose stockholder share share name is : Alphabet A.
They both did, as the computer was made for their company, Apple Computers Inc. of which they were both founders and in a sense they both had the rights since they ran their company at the time the first Apple II or even Apple I
is apple bottoms privately owned by Nelly
The person that owned the golden apple in greek mythology was the hesperides
no it's owned by logitech
The trade name iPad (or Ipad) was owned by the Chinese computer company Proview until 2011. Apple purchased the rights to the name after the company sued.
Tim Cook is the current CEO of Apple.
iTunes is owned by Apple :)