100 Amazing Facts About Apple

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Interesting stories and events go side by side with Apple. Everyone has heard of many, but there is also what is left behind the scenes.

1. Apple was not actually founded by two people, but three: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.

2. Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive share the same middle name - Paul.

3. Before joining Apple, Jonathan Ive worked for a company called Tangerine, which means "mandarin".

4. The original Apple I computer sold for $ 666.66.

5. Apple Store, which is located on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue (the same transparent cube), is considered one of the most photographed attractions in the world.

6. Steve Jobs tried LSD and called it one of the three most important things he did in his life.

7. As you may have noticed, Jonathan Ive has worn his unchanged shirt on every video presentation of Apple products since 2000.

8. Prior to founding Apple, Steve Jobs worked for Atari.

9. Steve Jobs was a Buddhist.

10. The birth father of Steve Jobs is a native of Syria Abdulfattah Jandali (Abdulfattah Jandali).

11. Steve Jobs met 21-year-old Steve Wozniak at the age of 16.

12. An interesting acquisition of Steve Jobs was Pixar. He bought this company from George Lucas for $ 10 million, and then sold Disney for $ 7.6 billion.

13. Steve Jobs has four children: one son and three daughters.

14. Jonathan Ive has two twin sons.

15. Steve Jobs denied that he was the father of his first child - Lisa Brennan-Jobs (Lisa Brennan-Jobs).

16. Jobs sold his apartment in New York to U2 frontman Bono.

17. In 1998, Steve Jobs lent Bill Clinton the use of his mansion in Woodside, California.

18. In 2009, Steve Jobs received a liver transplant at a Memphis hospital.

19. Apple was founded on April 1st.

20. Jobs's biological sister is the novelist Mona Simpson.

21. Apple once disposed of 2,700 unsold Lisa computers at a landfill in Utah.

22. Today there are 30-50 original Apple I.

23. The 1976 Apple logo featured Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree.

24. The modern Apple logo was designed by Rob Janoff.

25. A funny play on words is the first slogan of the company: Byte into an Apple. Bite translates to "bite."

26. Apple was the first company to introduce a mouse and trackpad.

27. When Steve Jobs was kicked out of Apple, he started a not-so-successful company called NeXT.

28. In 2001, the market price of Apple shares was less than $ 8 per share.

29. In January 2007, from the corporate name Apple Inc. the word Computer disappeared.

30. Apple.com is on the list of the 50 most visited sites in the world.

31. Apple's story began not in a garage, but on a bed at 11161 Crist Drive in Los Altos.

32. In the summer, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak worked part-time at Hewlett-Packard.

33. Apple II became Apple's longest-playing computer. It has been available for purchase for 11 years.

34. Apple has not sold a Windows-compatible iPod for nine months after the device was introduced.

35. All images of gadgets on the Apple website have the same time: 9:41 for iOS devices and 10:50 for Mac.

36. Among Apple's products was a console called Pippin.

37. The famous 1984 Macintosh commercial was directed by Ridley Scott, creator of Alien and Gladiator.

38. Apple created the Dogcow image in 1983. The animal is able to pronounce "Muf!"

39. The most serious Jobs parody on Twitter was @ceostevejobs. It doesn't work now.

40. Jobs' annual salary was only $ 1.

41. Steve Jobs met his wife at Stanford.

42. Despite the fact that Apple is one of the largest companies in the world, it has a small number of board members.

43. The Apple Board of Directors included former US Vice President Albert Gore.

44. Steve Jobs never made it to college.

45. Ronald Reagan awarded Steve Jobs the US National Medal of Technology.

46. Steve Jobs' wardrobe staple was the St. Croix, blue Levi's 501 jeans (there were over a hundred) and New Balance 992 sneakers.

47. In 2008, Bloomberg accidentally published a 2,500-word obituary for Steve Jobs, leaving the age and cause of death fields blank.

48. In 1974, Steve Jobs traveled to India in search of enlightenment.

49. Steve Jobs was dyslexic.

50. In the third grade, Steve Jobs detonated a firecracker under the teacher's chair.

51. There were also funny cases. For example, when Steve Jobs worked at Atari, he was transferred to the night shift because he did not observe hygiene and simply smelled.

52. Steve Jobs and his wife were strict vegetarians.

53. Steve Jobs' favorite food was apples, but sushi could also be found in his diet.

54. Steve Jobs convinced the president of PepsiCo to work for Apple.

55. In 2007, when the world saw the first iPhone, Starbucks ordered 4,000 lattes. The order was made by none other than Steve Jobs, who called during the presentation from the iPhone.

56. Steve Jobs had a very large foot size: 48th.

57. Steve Jobs often parked in the handicap parking lot at Apple's headquarters.

58. Steve Jobs dated famous singer Joan Baez.

59. According to analysts, Apple's capitalization could reach a trillion dollars.

60. As a Buddhist and vegetarian, Steve Jobs tried to treat cancer with a "special diet."

61. Apple borrowed the idea for the graphical user interface from Xerox.

62. Umberto Eco devoted one of his notes to the opposition of Mac and DOS, comparing the two systems with Catholicism and Protestantism.

63. Apple has been retailing since 2001.

64. Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, has nearly completed his Ph. D. in English.

65. Actor Noah Wyle played Steve Jobs in the Silicon Valley Pirates.

66. Apple's core products are updated once a year, although this tradition has been changing lately.

67. The average PC user spends up to 50 hours a year solving technical problems. The average Mac user spends only 5 hours a year on this.

68. Teachers and students using a Mac are 44% more productive than others.

69. After the first presentation, Steve Jobs gave every Apple employee an iPhone free of charge.

70. Apple was developing the tablet before it even started working on the iPhone. But the iPad was introduced only three years after the iPhone.

71. The iPod was codenamed Dulcimer.

72. Gonzo, Jedi, Malibu, Peter Pan, Rosebud and Yikes! are all codenames for Mac.

73. As conceived by Steve Jobs, the Macintosh was only a code name, which he planned to change after.

74. Time magazine wanted to name Steve Jobs the person of the year in 1982, even sent a reporter for interviews several times, but instead named the computer machine of the year.

75. Steve Jobs once appeared as a computer icon that Susan Kare created while working on the Macintosh team.

76. Hammer thrower Anya Major threw a hammer at the screen in a famous 1984 ad.

77. The 1984 ad was originally intended to promote the Apple II and was supposed to appear in the Wall Street Journal.

78. Apple's board of directors did not like the 1984 ad, and yet they decided to take a chance.

79. The first image on the Macintosh was the Disney character Scrooge McDuck.

80. In 2010, Apple's market cap surpassed Microsoft's for the first time since 1989.

81. Apple's online store was launched on November 10, 1997.

82. The first Apple retail stores were opened in Virginia and California.

83. The Apple Campus in Cupertino was built in 1993. These are six buildings with a total area of 80 thousand square meters.

84. Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955.

85. As a child, Steve Jobs lived in a house on 45th Avenue of San Francisco.

86. Little Steve Jobs drank a bottle of formic acid and ended up in intensive care.

87. In high school, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were involved in making and selling blue boxes that allowed them to break phone codes and make free calls around the world.

88. In 1972, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were making three dollars an hour walking around Westgate Mall in Alice in Wonderland costumes.

89. Steve Jobs came to the first Apple Halloween costume party dressed as Jesus Christ.

90. When IBM unveiled its first personal computer, Apple ran an ad in the Wall Street Journal with the words “Welcome, IBM. Seriously.

91. In 1982, Steve Jobs promised Bill Gates and Microsoft that he would never work on software that would use a mouse, except for Apple.

92. Steve Jobs starred as President Franklin Roosevelt in a 1984 promotional parody called "1944" depicting the war between the Mac and IBM computers.

93. Paul Rand, the author of the IBM logo, was hired to create the NeXT identity and logo.

94. Steve Jobs and Laurene Powell were married on March 18 at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park.

95. Jony Ive's start at Apple coincided with the 20th anniversary of the Mac.

96. One day Steve Jobs sold the NeXT computer to the king of Spain, which had not yet been officially presented.

97. Once Steve Jobs approached NASA with a request to let him fly the space shuttle.

98. Steve Jobs has talked repeatedly about how studying calligraphy in college has helped.

99. Steve Jobs was adopted.

100. Steve Jobs died on October 5, 2011, the day after the iPhone 4S presentation.