20 MIND-BLOWING FACTS ABOUT APPLE
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and manufactures consumer electronics and computer software products. They are known for their world-class quality. Let's take a look at some of the mindblowing facts about this Tech-Giant.
1. Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in April 1976 though Wayne sold his share back within 12 days for 800 dollars. If he had held onto that it would have been a whopping amount of 35 Billion US dollars.
2. Apple 1 was the first product launched by Apple and was sold for $666.66. They were handmade by Wozniak himself using wood. Out of 200 units made only about 60 units still remain. Now these computers sell for around $400,000 and $650,000
3. Apple logo has never been the same as we know today. They have evolved very much during their journey
4. 22 fake Apple stores were found in Kunming, a city in China, which mimicked the actual apple store layout and even their uniform. Some of the employees were made to believe that they were working for US electronics firm. That's cool right?
5. Steve Jobs was actually fired from Apple by its then CEO John Sculley (also the CEO of Pepsi)due to the poor performance of Apple Lisa and Apple 3 against IBM PC.
6. Apple cares so much about their packaging that they hire special packaging designers whose only task is to create and open various boxes. They create endless versions of box shapes, angles, and tapes.They have to spend months just opening the boxes.
7. Smoking is injurious to health. But it will also void your apple computer warranty. Be cautious!
8. All iPhone advertisements show the time 9:41 am as this was the time when Steve Jobs officially introduced the original iPhone!
9. If you have signed up for iTunes then you have already agreed to not use any apple product for making nuclear weapons, missiles, chemical or biological weapons. Well if you were planning to do so then you better not use Apple products!
10. When the initial iPod was under development, Steve jobs threw one of the prototypes to a pool to prove that there is still space inside it as several air bubbles came out. So he asked the engineers to make it smaller.
11. Apple was a well-established tech company by the 1980s. This didn't stop them from wandering into other areas as well. In fact, in 1986, Apple launched its own lineup of fashion items which didn't go very well for them and soon discontinued.
12. According to 2019 statistics, Apple earns 300,000 dollars a minute!!
13. Apple ships all its product by air though it's much more expensive than land or water transport. This is to ensure fast and secure delivery all over the world.
14. We all like Siri right? We ask a whole lot of questions to our trusted personal assistant. But what if I told you that everything you ask Siri is being stored by Apple. Yes it's Right. They store these data for up to 2 years and use them for quality training purposes. To ensure security, instead of named aa specific number is allocated for each data.
15. Apple is the second most valuable brand as of 2019 ($39 billion) second only to Amazon and is followed by Google.
16. The creator of original iPods Tony Fadell initially went to Philips and Realnetworks with his idea, but was rejected by both companies and went to Apple and the rest is history.
17. 60% of the apps on Apple AppStore have never been downloaded even once.
18. When Apple began designating employee numbers, Steve Jobs was offended that Wozniak received #1 while he got #2. He believed he should be second to no one, so he took #0 instead.
20. An iPhone has about 75 elements in it — two-thirds of the periodic table. That's impressive right?
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