15 Facts you didn't know about Apple 2022 | FE-Educate

15 Facts you didn't know about Apple

15 Things you didn't know about Apple. Welcome to FE-educate, the place where future billionaires come to get inspired. We hope you're having an incredible day so far. In This article, we take a look at some of the less known facts about the most profitable company in the world, Apple, Inc. The company is on track to become the first trillion-dollar company. But there were a lot of things you might have missed, mostly because the company isn't proud of, or simply didn't get that much coverage compared to the shiny products they sell. Now let's take a look at 15 things you might not know about Apple.

#1, apple actually had three founders. We all know that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak put together the first Apple computer in the garage of WAZA's parent's home in Cupertino, California. But few know there was a third guy working along with them. 

Ronald Wayne, a friend of Jobs from when they both worked at Atari, agreed to help start Apple with him. Not only did he help develop the computer, but he also wrote its manual and even came up with Apple's first logo.

Apple's first logo 

When he realized Apple might not make it, he sold his shares to Steve for $800. A really bad move. That share would be worth something like $40 billion now. Wayne now sells stamps and coins in a Nevada trailer park.

#2, apple started with a calculator to start the company. Jobs sold his VW microbus, and Woz sold his calculator. That might sound pretty one-sided now, but the fact is that the scientific calculator was worth more than the van back then. Was managed to sell it for $500. That's around $2,000 in today's money.

#3, Steve Jobs is the son of a Syrian immigrant. Few people know that Steve Jobs was adopted. Even fewer know that his father was Abdul Fata Jandi, a Syrian immigrant that got Joanne Srival pregnant in college. Due to parental issues, the baby was put up for adoption. And although the mother insisted the baby be adopted by educated people, young Steve was adopted by Paul Jobs, a high school dropout, and Clara Jobs, who hadn't finished college. John Dolly, who manages a Nevada casino, never met his son. But the two did exchange brief emails just before Jobs died.

#4, In 1086, Apple started a clothing line. You might have never heard of it because the project failed completely. They called it the Apple Collection. And the idea is far from the modern, sleek, minimalist, and timeless design that makes Apple products the sensation they are today. It's hard to picture Turtleneck Steve wearing a tracksuit with a rainbow-colored Apple logo. 

rainbow-colored apple logo

#5, Apple owns the patent for the slide-to-unlock feature. Apple is currently suing Samsung, claiming patent infringement over this. A judge has already overturned Apple's patent claims to slide to unlock in Germany.

#6, apple's iPad's Retina display is actually manufactured by Samsung.

Apple found out that outsourcing their Retina display to Samsung is actually cheaper than creating the infrastructure to build it themselves. Also, it's an incredibly lucrative contract that gives Apple slight leverage with Samsung.

#7, Steve Jobs invented the computer mouse by stealing it from Xerox back in the early computer years. To click on something, you had to insert rows of code that would tell the cursor where on a grid it should go and what action you wanted it to perform. While visiting Xerox's Research Center, he noticed a three-button mouse that would have been perfect for his Apple interface.

The only problem is that it cost $300, so he had the team drop one of the buttons, and the cost down to $15. 

The first Xerox mouse

#8, Jonathan Ive has worn the same T-shirt in every Apple product intro video since 2000. Same as Steve. Apple's lead designer wears the same type of clothing in all official releases. They come in lovely dad shades of earth tones, and they are made by a company called GStar. 

#9, the Mac battery is bulletproof. In case of horrific events, the battery inside your MacBook could potentially save your life as it was made to be bulletproof. 

the Mac battery is bulletproof

#10, bill Gates stole Windows from Apple in a similar fashion.

How Mark Zuckerberg stole the Facebook idea from the Winklevoss twins. Steve Jobs tasked Bill Gates with creating an operating system for Apple. After developing the product, Bill saw its standalone potential and decided to never deliver it and started selling Windows on his own. 

#11, Steve Jobs forced Microsoft to save Apple Inc. In 1997. Apple was running out of cash. Their legal battles with Microsoft were going on for so long and costing them a ton of money. So Steve offered Bill Gates the possibility of a settlement of $150,000,000 for nonvoting shares at Apple.

Microsoft promised to support Microsoft Office for the Mac for five years, while Apple agreed to make Internet Explorer the default web browser on the Mac. But not the only one. 

#12, the most expensive iPhone in the world costs $15 million@alux.c. We've covered almost all the most expensive items in the world. One of them is this $15 million iPhone covered in gold and diamonds.

Phone covered in gold and diamonds

#13, apple has more cash on hand than the US. Treasury. Not only does Apple have more, but it has at least four times the amount of money. As of 2015, the US. Treasury has around $50 billion in cash. While looking at Apple's balance sheets show it has over $200 billion in cash on hand. To put it into perspective, Apple is currently worth more than the entire Russian stock market put together. 

#14, if Apple were to go on a shopping spree, it could buy almost 80% of the top 500 companies in America. To make things interesting, apple could buy both Netflix and Tesla with earnings from only one yearly quarter.

Netflix Has A cap of 23 billion, and Tesla Is worth around 28 billion. If they wanted to, they could pick up Amazon for 90 billion and Still Have enough Cash to Buy Coca-Cola or Disney.

#15. In the last years of his life, steve Jobs Declared war On Google. Steve said, and I quote, I will spend my last dying breath to write this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this. They are scared to death because they know they are guilty. In a Last attempt to crumble Google's advertising empire, apple may allow or have ad blockers preinstalled on all their devices so you get a better experience while browsing the Internet.

In the last years of his life, steve Jobs Declared war On Google

We've got some extra Info for you.

Apple announced that it will come out with an electric car in the next five years. Both Steve and Tim Cook talked with Elon about Apple acquiring Tesla. But Musk didn't want to sell. What do you think about Apple's decision to build its own electric car?

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