No doubt that the corporate has been through millions of ups and downs, and there's no denying its unimaginable success within the digital world furthermore. Apple Inc. has its own vogue, innovations, designs, usability, attractiveness and most significantly...its loyal users. the sole company that I will assume comes shut in competition is Google...but we'll get there later.
What led me to penning this post was a short analysis on Steve Jobs and that i realized that there are quite a number of fascinating facts (and some rumors) surrounding Apple. Here are twenty five of 'em:
- Apple was established on April one, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. Ronald Wayne being 'the forgotten founder'. in contrast to several corporations out there, Apple did not begin during a garage, it started during a bedroom in Los Altos.
- All the 3 founders used to figure at 'Atari' before forming 'Apple'.
- Apple-1 with the tagline 'Byte into an Apple' was the primary pc to be released by Apple that was designed and hand designed by Wozniak. it had been sold for $666.66.
- Apple was incorporated on January three, 1977 while not one among its original founders Ronald Wayne, who sold his share of the corporate back to Jobs and Wozniak for $800.
- The terribly 1st Apple emblem was designed by Ronald Wayne.
- the primary emblem depicts Isaac Newton sitting beneath an apple tree when he discovered gravity by an apple falling on his head; it's a poem all around its border. (Newton… a mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought.)
- The word 'Macintosh' is additionally a range of an apple.
- Apple was redesigned in 1977 by Ron Janoff. the sole instruction that Ron had got from Steve Jobs was, “Don't build it cute”.
- Janoff then presented 2 logos to Jobs, one with a bite and therefore the alternative while not. and that we all recognize what Jobs went for.
- in line with an urban legend the rationale for choosing the brand with a bite within the apple was to pay homage to genius pc scientist Alan Turing who committed suicide by taking a bite from a poisoned apple. The designer and therefore the company but denies any such theory. (Co-incidence?)
- the opposite theory behind {the emblem|the brand|the emblem} is that Apple selected the rainbow coloured logo to pay tribute to the 'the tree of knowledge' mentioned in Adam and Eve's story within the Bible. therefore the bite represents the bite of data. once more the designer finds this theory fascinating however denies it being true.
- Janoff denies any fascinating story behind the brand, the sole reason it's an apple is as a result of the corporate is known as Apple, the bite was chosen so the fruit Apple isn't confused with the other fruit. (Interview with Ron Janoff)
- Apple's 1st GUI pc was referred to as Apple Lisa that is rumored to be named when Steve Job's 1st daughter Lisa Nicole Brennan Jobs. Apple denies these rumors by saying that Lisa stands for 'Locally Integrated Software Architecture'. (Co-incidence again?)
- Apple additionally created the primary client digital cameras. The Apple Quicktake was launched in 1994 and was discontinued later in 1997. An easy-to-use digital camera that connected to any Macintosh pc by approach of an Apple serial cable. The camera was capable of storing eight photos at 640x480 resolution, thirty two photos at 320x240 resolution, or a combination of each sizes.
- Jobs additionally created a corporation referred to as 'Pixar' that was later bought by Disney, creating him the biggest individual shareholder of Disney.
- Before bobbing up with the name iPod, Steve had already determined its tagline as “1,000 songs in your pocket.” Giving copywriter Vinnie Chieco complete freedom to return up with a reputation. When Chieco saw the prototype he instantly thought of the movie: 2001: an area Odyssey and phrase “Open the pod bay door Hal!” symbolizing spaceship's relationship with little freelance pods (personal pc and music player), Chieco simply added an 'i' to the pod.
- When 'iTunes' store was 1st launched, it had sold approximately 275,000 tracks inside its 1st eighteen hours. It sold seventy million songs in its 1st year.
- The Apple store on fifth Avenue in Manhattan (the cube) is definitely one among the foremost photographed landmarks within the world.
- Jonathan Ive, Apple's senior VP of commercial style, has worn a similar shirt in each Apple product introduction video since 2000.
- Steve Jobs' birth father is Syrian Muslim, 'Abdulfattah Jandali' and was later adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. Jobs was Buddhist and a strict vegan.
- Apple was the primary company to introduce the mouse and trackpad.
- Apple didn’t sell a Windows-compatible iPod till 9 months when the iPod was introduced.
- Steve Jobs was awarded the National Medal of Technology from Ronald Reagan.
- In 2008, 'Bloomberg' accidentally printed Steve Jobs' two,500 words obituary leaving blank areas for his age and reason for death. The gap sentence described Jobs because the man who “helped build personal computers as simple to use as telephones, modified the approach animated films are created, persuaded shoppers to tune into digital music and refashioned the transportable.” (Source)
