30 Facts About Apple Inc.
- Back in 70s… to start business Steve Jobs used to borrow space like garage or basement from friends and family.
- Apple first slogan was “Byte into an Apple”.
- Steve Jobs used to walk around Apple office barefoot.
- Apple Records sued Apple Computers because of trademark.
- Apple computer “Lisa” was the first computer ever to have a mouse.
- In the early 80s Apple II software package was donated to all public schools in state of California.
- In 1983 Apple sold to the public first computer with a GUI.
- Struggle between Jobs and new CEO John Sculley in 1985. Steve Jobs lost his management duties.
- Steve Jobs quit Apple in 1985 to start his own company called NeXT Inc.
- Jobs new company NeXT Inc failed to attract customers.
- Apple sued Microsoft for theft of intellectual property without any success.
- Microsoft release of Windows 95 put Apple in crisis.
- In 1997 Apple bought NeXT to bring Steve Jobs back.
- Apple and Microsoft signed partnership in 1997.
- First Apple retail store was opened in May, 2001.
- iPod was introduced in 2001.
- Apple iTunes store was introduced in 2003 after success of iPod.
- By 2007 Apple sole over 3 billion songs through Apple iTunes.
- In the beginning of 2001 Apple stock price was little more than $7 per share. By the end of 2007 price reached almost $190.
- InJanuary 2007 Apple Inc dropped the word “Computer” from its corporate name.
- By the April 2007 Apple Inc sold over 100 mil iPods.
- iPhone was introduced by Steve Jobs in January 2007.
- Greenpeace attacks Apple Inc for producing parts which unsafe for environment.
- Apple Records (Apple Corps) sued Apple Inc again right after Apple Inc began to sell music.
- Apple iTunes don’t sell Beatles songs.
- Company was under blame for using “cheap labour” in China.
- Official Apple site is in top 100 most visited websites in the world.
- Research shows that Apple has the most artistic, educated, and creative people as customers.
- Apple has the biggest “fan club” comparing to other technology companies.
- Research shows that most people who buy Apple products for the first time come back later as regular customer.
Also, we found another article by Richard MacManus which also called “30 facts about Apple”, you can see it here
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Never trust Wikipedia!. If you go on the page about Apple you will find that Apple was the first… So, now we have 2 apges on Wikipedia telling us the same information about 2 different companies.
Also, I just found on Wikipedia that Byron was Spanish poet!!! Hm… as far as i know George Gordon Byron was born and raised in Scotland.
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