99 Things you didn’t know about Apple Inc.
- Apple didn’t have two founders. It had three. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne.
- Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive share the same middle name: “Paul.”
- Before working at Apple, Jonathan Ive worked for a company called Tangerine.
- The original Apple 1 computer sold for $666.66.
- The Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan (the cube) is said to be one of the most photographed landmarks in the world.
- Nine U.S. states don’t have Apple stores: Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.
- Before co-founding Apple, Steve Jobs worked for Atari.
- Jonathan Ive has worn the same shirt in every Apple product intro video since 2000.
- Steve Jobs is a Buddhist.
- Steve Jobs’ birth father was a Syrian Muslim, Abdulfattah Jandali.
- Steve Jobs met Steve Wozniak when Jobs was 16 and Wozniak 21.
- Steve Jobs bought Pixar from George Lucas for $10 million and sold it to Disney for $7.6 billion.
- Steve Jobs has four children: one son and three daughters.
- Jonathan Ive has twins.
- Steve Jobs originally denied he was the father of his first child, Lisa Brennan-Jobs.
- Steve Jobs sold his apartment in New York City to U2 frontman Bono.
- In 1998 Steve Jobs let Bill Clinton use his mansion in Woodside, California.
- Steve Jobs underwent a liver transplant at a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee in 2009.
- Apple was established on April Fools Day.
- Apple has more than 35,000 employees worldwide.
- Apple once disposed of 2,700 unsold Lisas in a Utah landfill. The computer originally sold at $10,000 each.
- Only 30-50 of the original Apple 1 computers still exist, with originals selling for up to $50,000.
- Apple’s original logo in 1976 featured Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree.
- Apple’s current logo was designed by Rob Janoff.
- First slogan: “Byte into an Apple.”
- Apple was the first company to introduce the mouse and the trackpad.
- After being kicked out of Apple, Steve Jobs started an unsuccessful company called NeXT.
- In 2001, Apple’s stock price was less than $8 per share. In April 2010 the price reached $272.
- In January 2007, Apple Inc. dropped “Computer” from its corporate name.
- Apple.com is in the top 50 websites visited worldwide and in the top 30 visited in the United States.
- Apple wasn’t started in a garage, it was started in a bedroom at 11161 Crist Drive in Los Altos.
- Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak both worked together as summer employees at Hewlett-Packard.
- The longest-lived Apple computer of all time was the Apple IIe, which was on sale for nearly 11 years.
- Apple didn’t sell a Windows-compatible iPod until nine months after the iPod was introduced.
- The time shown on all of the devices in pictures on Apple’s website is the same (9:41 a.m. for iOS devices and 10:50 a.m. for Macs). The time is coordinated with when the pictures will be shown during Steve Jobs’ keynote address.
- Apple once created a stand-alone game console called the Pippin.
- The famous 1984 Macintosh ad was directed by Ridley Scott, director of Alien and Gladiator.
- Apple created the Dogcow in 1983. The sound she makes is “Moof!”
- Steve Jobs pays himself an annual salary of $1.
- Steve Jobs’ annual income from Disney shares is $48 million.
- Despite being one of the biggest companies in the world, Apple’s current board of directors (at six) is among the smallest in the Fortune 500.
- Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is on Apple’s board of directors.
- Steve Jobs was a college drop out.
- Steve Jobs was awarded the National Medal of Technology from Ronald Reagan.
- Steve Jobs commonly dons a black long-sleeved mock-turtleneck made by St. Croix, Levi’s 501 blue jeans (he owns more than 100), and New Balance 992 sneakers.
- In 2008, Bloomberg accidentally published a 2,500 word obituary of Steve Jobs in its news service, leaving blank spaces for his age and cause of death.
- Steve Jobs traveled to India looking for enlightenment in 1974.
- Steve Jobs is dyslexic.
- Steve Jobs said he let snakes loose in his third grade classroom and “exploded bombs.”
- While Steve Jobs worked at Atari, he was moved to the night shift because he had poor personal hygiene and smelled bad.
- Steve Jobs and his wife are strict vegans.
- Apples are Steve Jobs’ favorite food.
- Steve jobs convinced the president of PepsiCo to work for Apple.
- During the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, Steve Jobs used the phone to call Starbucks and order 4,000 lattes to go.
- Steve Jobs has big feet, at size 14.
- Steve Jobs often parks in Handicap spaces at Apple headquarters.
- Steve Jobs’ sister, Mona Simpson, is a novelist.
- Apple is now a $50 billion company.
- Apple sells 91 percent of $1,000+ PCs.
- Apple’s idea for the graphical user interface actually came from Xerox.
- John Hodgman, the PC in the “I’m a Mac” commercials, uses a Mac.
- Apple has been in the retail store business since 2001.
- Apple has had six CEOs: Michael Scott, A.C. “Mike” Markkula, John Sculley, Michael Spindler, Gil Amelio and Steve Jobs.
- Philip W. Schiller, senior vice president of marketing, began but didn’t complete a Ph.D. in English.
- Steve Jobs was portrayed by Noah Wyle in the film “Pirates of Silicon Valley.”
- Macs last an average of six years. PCs last an average of four years.
- The average PC owner spends 50 hours a year troubleshooting. The average Mac owner spends 5 hours a year.
- Teachers and students using Macs are found to be 44% more productive.
- When it was first released Steve Jobs gave every Apple employee a free iPhone.
- Apple began work on a touch-screen tablet before work began on the iPhone. The iPad wasn’t released until three years after the iPhone, however.
- The iPod’s codename was “Dulcimer.”
- Gonzo, Jedi, Malibu, Peter Pan, Rosebud, and Yikes! have all been codenames for Macs.
- The signatures of the Macintosh hardware team were originally engraved inside the computer’s case.
- Steve Jobs originally considered “Macintosh” to be a code name and wanted to rename the project.
- Time Magazine considered naming Steve Jobs “Man of the Year” in 1982, even sending a reporter for interviews multiple times, but instead, the magazine named “the computer” the machine of the year.
- Susan Kare once created a computer icon of Steve Jobs while she worked on the Macintosh team.
- Anya Major, a discus thrower, threw the sledgehammer at the screen in the famous 1984 commercial.
- The 1984 ad was originally proposed to be used as a print advertisement in the Wall Street Journal to promote the Apple II.
- Apple’s Board of Directors hated the 1984 commercial when they saw it but decided to take the risk anyway.
- The very first image shown on the Macintosh was of Disney character Scrooge McDuck.
- In 2010 Apple’s market cap exceeded Microsoft for the first time since 1989.
- Apple’s online store began on November 10, 1997.
- The first Apple retail stores opened in Virginia and California.
- Apple’s Cupertino campus has six buildings that total 850,000 square feet and was built in 1993.
- Steve Job’s birthday is February 24, 1955.
- When he was growing up, Steve Jobs lived on 45th Avenue in San Francisco.
- In his childhood Steve Jobs swallowed a bottle of ant poison and had to go to the ER.
- While in high school Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak made and sold Blue Boxes to get free calls from public telephone systems.
- In 1972, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak took $3 an hour jobs dressed as “Alice in Wonderland” characters at the Westgate Mall in San Jose.
- At the first Apple Halloween costume party, Steve Jobs dressed up as Jesus Christ.
- When the first IBM PC debuted, Apple took out an ad in the Wall Street Journal with the words “Welcome, IBM. Seriously.”
- In 1982 Steve Jobs made Bill Gates and Microsoft promise never to work on any business software that would use a mouse unless it was for Apple.
- Steve Jobs dated singer Joan Baez.
- Steve Jobs once stared as President Roosevelt in a war-themed 1984 ad parody called 1944, where Macs start a war with IBM computers.
- Paul Rand, the creator of the IBM logo, was hired to create the brand identity and logo for NeXT.
- Steve Jobs and Laurene Powell were married at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park on March 18.
- Jonathan Ive’s first piece of work at Apple was the 20th Anniversary Mac.
- Steve Jobs once sold the King of Spain a NeXT computer at a party, even before it was released.
- Steve Jobs once tried to get NASA to let him ride the space shuttle.
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