100 amazing facts about Apple

1. Started Apple is not really two people, but three: Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs), Steve Wozniak (Steve Wozniak) and Ronald Wayne (Ronald Wayne).

2. Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive (Jonathan Ive) is one and the same middle name - Paul.

3. Before starting work at Apple, Jonathan Ive worked for a company called Tangerine's, which translated means "Mandarin".

4. The original Apple I computer was sold for 666.66 dollars.

5. Apple Store, which is located on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan (the most transparent cube), is considered one of the most photographed landmarks 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 can see, Jonathan Ive puts on his shirt continued for each video presentation Apple c 2,000 products a year.

8. Before Apple's founding, Steve Jobs worked at Atari.

9. Steve Jobs was a Buddhist.

10. His own father Steve Jobs has to a native of Syria Abdulfattoh Jandal (Abdulfattah Jandali).

11. Steve Jobs met with the 21-year-old Steve Wozniak in 16 years.

12. Interesting acquisition was Steve Jobs Pixar. The company he bought from George Lucas (George Lucas) for $ 10 million, and then sold to Disney for $ 7.6 billion.

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

14. Jonathan Ive twin sons.

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

16. His apartment in New York Jobs sold U2 frontman Bono (Bono).

17. In 1998, Steve Jobs gave Bill Clinton (Bill Clinton) to use his mansion in Woodside, California.

18. In 2009, Steve Jobs liver transplant at the hospital in Memphis.

19. Apple was founded on April 1st.

20. Jobs biological sister, novelist Mona Simpson falls (Mona Simpson).

21. One utilized the 2700 Apple Lisa unsold computers on a landfill in Utah.

22. Total to date, there are 30-50 of the original Apple I.

23. Apple in 1976, the logo was an image of Isaac Newton (Isaac Newton), sitting under an apple tree.

24. Apple Modern logo designed Yanoffom Rob (Rob Janoff).

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

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

27. When Steve Jobs We were kicked out of AppleHe founded a not very successful company called NeXT.

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

29. In January 2007, the corporate name of Apple Inc. faded word Computer.

30. Apple.com is in the top 50 most visited websites in the world.

31. History of Apple did not start in the garage and on the bed in the house of 11161 Crist Drive Street in Los Altos.

32. Summer Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak worked in a Hewlett-Packard.

33. Apple II became the most-lasting Apple computer. It can be purchased for 11 years.

34. Apple does not sell iPod, compatible with Windows, within nine months from the date of the presentation device.

35. All images on Apple gadgets one site at the same time: 9:41 to iOS-devices and 10:50 for the Mac.

36. Among the products Apple has been and console named Pippin.

37. Directed by the famous advertising Macintosh 1984 was Ridley Scott (Ridley Scott) - creator of the films "Alien" and "Gladiator."

38. Apple has created Dogcow image in 1983. Animal skillfully say "MUF!".

39. The most serious parody of Jobs on Twitter was @ceostevejobs account. it does not 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, the number of members of the Board of Directors of her small.

43. In Apple's board of directors includes former USA Albert Gore, Vice-President (Albert Gore).

44. Steve Jobs I did not finish my studies in college.

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

46. Wardrobe elements unchanged Steve Jobs was turtleneck St. Croix, blue jeans Levi's 501 (there were more than a hundred) and running shoes New Balance 992.

47. In 2008, Bloomberg accidentally published an obituary of 2 500 words dedicated to Steve Jobs, leaving empty fields age and cause of death.

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

49. Steve Jobs was dyslexic.

50. In third grade, Steve Jobs has blown a firecracker under his chair teacher.

51. There were a curious cases. For example, when Steve Jobs worked in the Atari, he was transferred to the night shift because he did not follow the hygiene and simply stinks.

52. Steve Jobs and his wife were strict vegetarians.

53. Favorite foods are apples Steve Jobs, but it was possible to find sushi in his diet.

54. Steve Jobs convinced President PepsiCo to work for Apple.

55. In 2007, when the world saw the first iPhone, ordered at a Starbucks latte 4000. Order made by none other than Steve Jobs, during caller with the iPhone presentation time.

56. Steve Jobs was a very big feet: 48 minutes.

57. Steve Jobs often parked on the ground for people with disabilities at the headquarters of Apple.

58. Steve Jobs met famous singer Joan Baez (Joan Baez).

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

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

61. The idea of ​​a graphical user interface Apple borrowed from Xerox.

62. Umberto Eco (Umberto Eco) has dedicated one of the notes confrontation Mac and DOS, comparing the two systems with Catholicism and Protestantism.

63. Apple carries out retail sales in 2001.

64. Phil Schiller (Phil Schiller), senior vice president of marketing for Apple, almost earned a doctorate in English.

65. Actor Noah Wyle (Noah Wyle) played Steve Jobs in the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley."

66. Update Apple staple happens once a year, although in recent years this tradition is changing.

67. The average PC user spends 50 hours a year to solve the technical problems of the plan. The average Mac user spends on it only 5 hours per year.

68. Teachers and students using the Mac, by 44% productively others.

69. After the first presentation, Steve Jobs gave every Apple employee on iPhone for free.

70. Apple is developing a tablet even before she began to work on the iPhone. But the iPad was introduced only three years after the iPhone.

71. The code name iPod was Dulcimer.

72. Gonzo, Jedi, Malibu, Peter Pan, Rosebud and Yikes! - all these code names Mac.

73. According to the idea of ​​Steve Jobs, Macintosh was a code name, which he planned to change after.

74. Time magazine wanted to name Steve Jobs Person of the Year in 1982, even sending a reporter for interviews multiple times, but instead called a computer machine of the year.

75. Steve Jobs once appeared in the form of computer icons, which creates Susan Kare (Susan Kare), working on the Macintosh team.

76. Hammer thrower Major Anya (Anya Major) threw the hammer into the screen in the famous advertising in 1984.

77. Initially in 1984, the advertising was intended to promote the Apple II and was supposed to go in the Wall Street Journal.

78. Apple's Board of Directors did not like advertising in 1984, and yet, it was decided to take the risk.

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

80. In 2010, Apple's market capitalization for the first time since 1989 has exceeded Microsoft's capitalization.

81. Online Apple store opened November 10, 1997.

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

83. Apple campus Cupertino was built in 1993. This 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 the house on 45th Avenue in San Francisco.

86. Little Steve Jobs had drunk a bottle of formic acid and was in intensive care.

87. In high school, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak We engaged in that made and sold "blue boxes" that allowed to crack codes and free calls worldwide.

88. In 1972, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak received three dollars an hour, walking around in costumes of the characters of "Alice in Wonderland" at Westgate Mall.

89. Apple for the first costume party in honor of Halloween, Steve Jobs came in a suit of Jesus Christ.

90. When IBM introduced 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 (Bill Gates) and Microsoft never work on software that will use the mouse, except for Apple.

92. Steve Jobs has been in the role of President Roosevelt (Franklin Roosevelt) in the ad parody called "1944", filmed in 1984 and depicts a war Mac and IBM computers.

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

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

95. Getting Started Johnny Ive at Apple coincided with the twentieth anniversary of the Mac.

96. Steve Jobs once sold the King of Spain a computer NeXT, which was not yet officially presented.

97. Once Steve Jobs applied to NASA to let him manage the space shuttle.

98. Steve Jobs repeatedly he talked about how he helped the study of calligraphy in college.

99. Steve Jobs has been adopted.

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