There is no even a single
person in the modern time who does not has craze for any kind of apple’s
products. Whether you talk about Mac or Apple, the technology leader, products
belonging to these brands are awesome to their performance and design. For this
reason every techno-friendly person of the modern generation bear a wish to own
grand, advance gadgets of the company. So, have you ever thought about the
facts working behind these names, well check out some of the spicy facts here
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1. Apple Logo
The first Logo of Apple is
not famous but it featured Sir Isaac Newton resting against a tree while an
apple is falling. The logo was the idea of Apple founder Ronald Wayne. The Logo
was however only used till 1976.
2. Raising Capital
Steve Jobs sold his
Volkswagen and Steve Wozniak, who was then an employee of HP, sold his HP 65
scientific calculator, which is known as the “smallest programmable computer
ever” of the time, to raise funds for the Company that stands taller than
anything today.
3. The first Color Digi Cam
Apple made the first mass-marketcolor digital cam in 1994. It could take 8 snaps and could be connected to a
Mac through a serial cable. It was priced at $749 at just 1MP resolution
without a digital display!
4. The secret Easter egg
The first ever iPod had a
secret Easter egg game that needed a combination of buttons to unlock. Nick
Triano revealed in the Geek.com review that you just needed to go to ‘About’
and hold the centre button to let the game pop out and play as you listen.
5. The founders
Steve Jobs and Steve
Wozniak are not the only founders of Apple Inc. Entrepreneur Ronald Wayne had sold
10% share that could be evaluated to billions to the famous duo right before
the launch for just $800.
6. Apple OS
The comprehensive desktop
design of Apple originated from Xerox. The copier company inspired Jobs with
the point-and-click PARC interface. Jobs offered the company 100000 Apple
shares in exchange of this breakthrough mouse navigation system.
7. Hollywood rage
Apple products featured in
over 30% of the best movies at the U.S. box office including Sex and the City
and Mission Impossible. In the Disney-Pixar movie WALL-E the sound of fully
charged hero is the sound of the Apple Mac start up tone. In 2012, Apple had
sold more iPhones than the number of children born in the same fiscal quarter!
8. Time is constant
Time can be constant only
with Apple. All the iPods, iPads and iPhones have their clocks captured at
09:41; this is the traditional minute for the launch of all Apple products.
9. Charity
The limited edition red
products raised more than $65 million for Apple’s Product Red Campaign aimed at
tackling the problem of AIDS in Africa. The Red Mac Pro raised 596,000 pounds
itself!
10 Job’s death
On October 5th, 2011, Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer at
the age of 56. Actor Ashton Kutcher was hospitalized with pancreatitis for
being on a fruitarian diet to prepare to play Steve Jobs in the 2013 movie
Jobs. Yeah, what a coincidence?
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