The Apple company is known practically in all countries of the world. Apple is one of the most powerful electronics manufacturers and its products are hugely successful. But knowing its history, not everyone knows what is behind the scenes. Here are 100 facts you haven't heard about Apple yet.
1. In fact, the founders of Apple are not two people, as it was said earlier, but three. You know two of them, but who is the third? Their names are Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.
2. Paul is the middle name of both Jonathan Ive and Steve Jobs.
3. Jonathan Ive was originally an employee of The Mandarin Company.
4. Computer "Apple 1" was sold for a "hellish" amount of $ 666.66.
5. The most photographed attraction in the world - "Apple Store", which is located at Manhattan's Fifth Avenue.
6. Steve Jobs has tried a narcotic substance (LSD) and calls it one of three important things in his life.
7. Jonathan Ive has worn the same shirt for 14 years when presenting Apple products.
8. Prior to founding Apple, Steve Jobs was an employee of Atari.
9. Steve Jobs is a Buddhist.
10. Steve Jobs's father is a Muslim.
11. At the time Jobs met Steve, Wozniak was 21 and Jobs was 16.
12. One of the interesting purchases of Steve Jobs was Pixar. It was priced at $ 10 million, but later sold to Disney for $ 7.6 billion.
13. Steve Jobs has three daughters and one son.
14. Quince only has two children, both boys and twins.
15. Steve Jobs did not consider his own son the first - Lisa Brennan-Jobs.
16. Jobs' New York apartment was sold to U2 frontman Bono.
17. In 1998, Steve Jobs donated his mansion to Bill Clinton.
18. In 2009, Steve Jobs underwent liver transplant surgery.
19. Apple itself was founded on April 1st.
20. Jobs's biological sister is the novelist Mona Simpson.
21. Apple had to dispose of about 3,000 Lisa computers at a landfill in Utah.
22. Today there are only 35-45 original Apple I computers.
23. In 1976, the Apple logo was Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree.
24. The familiar Apple logo was developed by designer Rob Yanoff.
25. The mega-popular Bite pun is represented by the company's first slogan.
26. Apple was the first to introduce a mouse and trackpad to the world.
27. After Jobs was kicked out of Apple, he created the not-so-successful Next company.
28. Apple's stock price in 2001 was just under $ 8 apiece.
29. In 2007, the word "Computer" disappeared from the name of the corporation.
30. Apple.com is one of the TOP 50 most visited sites in the world.
31. Apple's story began with the bed at 11161.
32. Both Steves worked part-time in the summer at Hewlett-Packard.
33. The Apple II computer lasted the most in the production of Apple.
34. Since the presentation of the iPod, it hasn't been on sale for almost a year.
35. The time on the Apple website completely coincides with the time on iOS devices.
36. Apple also produced the Pippin game console.
37. Director of Macintosh ads in 1984 was the creator of the films "Gladiator" and "Alien"
38. The sound made by the animal was "Muf!"
39. The most serious Jobs spoof on Twitter was @ceostevejobs.
40. Jobs's salary is $ 1 a year.
41. Jobs met his wife at Stanford.
42. Apple, despite its size, has a very small board of directors.
43. One of the directors of Apple was Vice President of the United States - Al Gore.
44. Steve Jobs dropped out of college, dropping out.
45. Steve Jobs has been awarded the National Medal of Technology.
46. He always wore blue jeans, a black turtleneck and New Balance sneakers.
47. In 2008, Bloomberg published a 2,500 word obituary about Jobs.
48. In 1974, while traveling in India, Jobs was severely poisoned.
49. Steve Dojbs - Discussionist.
50. At school, in grade 3, Jobs detonated a firecracker under his teacher's chair.
51. When Steve Jobs worked at Atari, he was transferred to the night shift due to the fact that he did not observe his personal hygiene and gave off unpleasant odors.
52. Jobs' wife, like himself, were vegetarians.
53. Steve Jobs loved apples the most from food, no matter in what state. But very often he ate sushi too.
54. Jobs persuaded a PepsiCo executive to work for Apple.
55. In 2007, Apple introduced its first iPhone.
56. Steve Jobs's foot size was 48 (in US terms).
57. Steve Jobs often parked his car in a disabled parking lot in the headquarters parking lot.
58. Steve Jobs' girlfriend was a famous singer - Joan Baez.
59. More recently, analysts have suggested that Apple's market cap will soon reach a trillion dollars.
60. Steve Jobs treated cancer with a diet.
61. The idea for the Apple interface was borrowed from Xerox.
62. Apple has been retailing since 2001.
64. Apple's VP of Marketing nearly earned his Ph.D. in English.
65. In the films Steve Jobs was played by actor Noah Wiley.
66. It is customary to make product updates once a year.
67. Every Apple computer user spends 10 times less time solving technical problems.
68. Teachers, students who use Macs are 44% more productive than other teachers.
69. After Apple presented its first iPhone, Jobs gave each of his employees a device for free.
70. Development of the tablet began earlier than work on the iPhone, but the iPad entered production only three years after the presentation of the iPhone.
71. The code of the iPod is "Dulcimer".
72. Mac had several code words at once.
73. Originally Macintosh was also a code word, which later had to be changed.
74. In 1982, the world famous Time magazine wanted to name Steve Jobs the person of the year, but Jobs was replaced by his own technique.
75. Steve Jobs was once introduced as an icon by designer Susan Kare.
76. In 1984, the famous thrower Anya Major threw her hammer on the screen of the famous advertisement.
77. The 1984 advertisement was originally conceived as a print ad aimed at promoting the Apple II computer.
78. In 1984, the ad was hated by the entire Apple board of directors, but allowed it nonetheless.
79. The very first image on the Mac was Scrooge McDuck, who was the most popular Disney character.
80. Apple first won the Microsoft market capitalization race in 2010, which began in 1989.
81. Apple's first online store opened in 1997 on November 10th.
82. Apple's earliest retail stores were in California and Virginia.
83. The Apple Campus was built back in 1993. This headquarters is represented by six buildings with a total area of 850 thousand square feet.
84. Steve Jobs was born in 1955 in the winter of February 24th.
85. As a child, when Steve Jobs lived with his parents, he lived in a house located on 45 Avenue in the city of San Francisco.
86. As a child, Steve Jobs was in intensive care after drinking a whole bottle of formic acid.
87. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak have been doing their business together since childhood. In high school, they produced blue boxes that provided free calls to ordinary citizens from public phones.
88. In 1972, both Steves earned their own money, walking around the city in the costumes of Disney characters "Alice in Wonderland".
89. At the first Halloween party at Apple, Steve Jobs came in a Jesus Christ costume, which did not surprise anyone.
90. Following IBM's introduction of the first personal computer, Apple ran an ad provocative “Welcome, IBM. Really".
91. In 1982, Job promised Gates to develop software that would work with a mouse.
92. Steve Jobs was featured in a commercial in 1984 as President Roosevelt.
93. An IBM designer was hired to create the Next logo.
94. Steve Jobs got married on March 18th.
95. Jony Ive joined Apple on the 20th anniversary of the Mac.
96. There was a case when Steve Jobs sold a computer to the king of Spain, not yet presented it.
97. Once Steve Jobs approached NASA to give him control over the space shuttle.
98. Steve Jobs has always extolled his handwriting.
99. Jobs was adopted.
100. The death of Jobs occurred in 2011 on October 5, immediately the day after the presentation of the iPhone 4S.
