1. Apple Computer was established by Ronald Wayne, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. After only 2 weeks, Wayne left the company and sold his stock for $800. If he’d kept those 10% to this day, it would be worth over $60 billion.
2. Almost every advertisement and all promotional material for Apple’s products has the time set to 9:41 AM. This is because on the 9th of January, 2007 at 9:41 AM Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone to public.
3. In 1981, Apple employee Bill Atkinson came up with a new algorithm to draw ovals and circles on the Macintosh. But Steve Jobs wasn’t impressed, he wanted something more. He wanted rectangles with rounded corners. Bill said it would be almost impossible and impractical, but Jobs insisted. So the very next day, Bill came up with a new algorithm that could draw rectangles with rounded corners just as fast as regular. He simple called them RoundRects.
4. Fans of Apple can be a little extreme. A Japanese blogger so badly wanted to have the first iPhone 6 that he started waiting outside an Apple store 7 months before the iPhone 6 was expected to be released. But he gave up pretty quickly and didn’t actually sit there for the entire 7 months.
5. If you read the EULA (End User License Agreement) for iTunes, At the very end you’ll find this clause “You also agree that you’ll not use these products for any purpose prohibited by United States laws , including , without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons.
6. When Apple first started releasing laptops the logo on the back was always up side down.
7. Apple also made a video game console. It was called the Apple Pippin and was released in 1995 in Japan and United States. It was supposed to compete with other consoles like Sony Playstation and Sega Saturn. It failed miserably.
8. The name Apple was randomly chosen because of its simplicity and as they couldn’t come up with a better name. The logo was also chosen because of its simplicity. At the very beginning though, they used a logo featuring Isaac Newton sitting under a apple tree.
9. Everything you say to Siri is recorded, sent to Apple, analyzed and then stored for 2 years.
