12 Interesting Facts About Apple
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As we all know, Apple Inc. is the first trillion-dollar company in the world,
But there were a lot of things you might have missed on mostly because the company isn’t proud of or simply didn’t get that much coverage compared to the shiny products they sell now.
Let’s take a look at 12 things you might not know about Apple.
Amazing Facts About Apple
1. Apple actually had three founders
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We all know that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak put together the first Apple computer in the garage in Cupertino California.
But few know there was a third guy working along with them.
Ronald Wayne a friend of Jobs from when they both work together and he agreed to help start Apple with him.
Not only did he help develop the computer he wrote its manual and even came up with Apple’s first logo.
When he realized Apple might not make it he sold his shares to Steve’s for $800, a really bad move.
That share would be worth something like 40 billion dollars now.
Wayne now sells stamps and coins in a Nevada trailer park.
2. Apple was started with a calculator
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To start the company Jobs sold his Volkswagen Microbus and Woz sold his calculator.
That might sound pretty one-sided now, but the fact is that the scientific calculator was worth more than a Van(Microbus) back then.
Woz managed to sell it for $500 that’s around $2,000 in today.
3. Steve Jobs is the son of a Syrian immigrant
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Few people know that Steve Jobs was adopted.
Even fewer know that his father was Abdul Fattah John D a Syrian immigrant that got Joanne Schreiber pregnant in college.
Due to parental issues, the baby was put up for adoption and although the mother insisted the baby be adopted by educated people.
Young Steve was adopted by Paul Jobs a high school dropout and Clara Jobs who hadn’t finished college.
4. In 1986 Apple started a clothing line
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They called it the Apple collection and the idea is far from the modern sleek minimalist and timeless design that makes Apple products the sensation.
They are today it’s hard to picture turtleneck Steve wearing a tracksuit in rainbow-colored Apple logo.
5. Apple owns the patent for the slide to unlock feature
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A judge has already overturned apple’s patent claims to slide to unlock in Germany.
6. Apple’s iPads Retina display is actually manufactured by Samsung
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Apple found out that outsourcing their retina display to Samsung is actually cheaper than creating the infrastructure to build it themselves.
Also, it’s an incredibly lucrative contract that gives Apple slight leverage with Samsung.
7. The Mac battery is bulletproof
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In case of horrific events, the battery inside your MacBook could potentially save your life as it was made to be bulletproof.
8. Bill Gates stole Windows from Apple
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After developing the product Bill saw its standalone potential and decided to never deliver it and started selling Windows on his own.
9. The most expensive iPhone in the world costs fifteen million dollars
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The most expensive iPhone in the world costs fifteen million dollars. This fifteen million dollar iPhone covered in gold and diamond.
10. Apple has more cash on hand than the US Treasury
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Not only does Apple have more but it has at least four times the amount of money.
As of 2015, the US Treasury has around fifty billion dollars in cash.
While looking at Apple’s balance sheets show it has over 200 billion dollars cash on hand.
To put it into perspective Apple is currently worth more than the entire Russian stock market put together.
11. If Apple were to go on a shopping spree, it could buy almost 80 percent of the top 500 companies in America
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To make things interesting Apple could buy both Netflix and Tesla with the earnings from only one yearly quarter.
Netflix has a cap of 23 billion and Tesla is worth around 28 billion, if they wanted to they could pick up Amazon for 90 billion and still have enough cash to buy coca-cola or Disney.
12. In the last years of his life, Steve Jobs declared war on Google
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Steve said “I will spend my last dying breath… to right this wrong. I’m going to destroy Android because it’s a stolen product.
I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this. They are scared to death because they know they are guilty.”
Conclusion
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