A recent infographic published by Shop On Less brings us several interesting stats and facts about Apple Inc. AAPL. Some of them, you might know; others, might really surprise you, even blow your mind. So, without further a due, here’s 33 Apple stats and facts that might interest you:
1) Apple’s famed “bitten apple” logo was not the first one the company had. Here’s a succession of the logos since 1976 – note that the first one included Newton sitting under the apple tree.
Source: Shop On Less
2) Apple is the world’s most valuable brand, being only 39 years old.
3) The company was established on April Fool’s Day, 1976.
4) Steve Jobs was not the only owner – although he was certainly the most well-known. The company was also owned by Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne
5) All three founders worked at Atari (remember Atari?) before forming Apple.
6) Not all of Apple’s products were successful. Some failures include: the Macintosh TV (the company’s first attempt to integrate computers and TV, in 1993), the iPod Shuffle 3rd Generation, the Mighty Mouse, and the Apple Bandai Pippin (a multimedia technology console), amongst others.
7) The most successful products were the first iMac (launched in 1984), the iPod (2001), the MacBook (2006), the iPhone (2007) and the iPad (2010).
8) Chances of getting into Harvard University are higher than those of getting a job at the Apple Store
9) Apple has almost 100,000 employees around the globe
10) Its headquarters’ employees earn, in average, $125,000 a year
11) More than half of Apple’s employees live in San Jose, California
12) Only 15 countries around the world have Apple retail stores
13) Ironically, the iPad’s retina display is manufactured by one of the company’s largest competitors: Samsung Electronics Co. SSNLF
14) Even further, Samsung manufactures 30 percent of the A8 chips used in the iPhone 6
15) Even selling twice as many phones as Apple, Samsung generated the same amount of revenue, and a considerably smaller profit
16) Apple creates fake projects, from time to time, to check for leaks amongst employees
17) Apple generates more than $5,000 PER SECOND!
18) Apple has more operating cash than the U.S. Treasury (crazy, right?)
19) It is also worth more than the entire Russian stock market
20) Smoking near Apple computers voids the warranty
21) The average PC user spends 50 hours a year troubleshooting. Mac users, only 5 hours.
22) Apple could afford to buy everyone in the U.S. an iPod touch, and still hove some money left over.
23) The company owns the patent for the “slide to unlock” feature
24) People have waited in line for months to get Apple products. A man in Japan arrived at the store 7 months before the iPhone 6 was launched to get it first.
25) Apple stores and analyzes everything you say to Siri (scary, ain’t it?)
26) If you fully charge your iPhone once a day, you will spend about $0.25 worth of electricity in a full year.
27) Apple cannot market iPhones in Brazil because another company already owns the trademark
28) In 2014, 326 iPhones were sold EVERY MINUTE
29) The creator of the first iPod first offered the idea to Koninklijke Philips NV (ADR) PHG and RealNetworks Inc RNWK, but they both rejected it (Britney, Rhianna, does it ring a bell?)
30) When the first prototype of Apple’s iPod finally arrived at Steve Jobs’ hands, he dropped it into an aquarium. The bubbles released proved that it could be made smaller, eliminating empty space.
31) The iPod’s code name was “Dulcimer.” The iPhone’s, a cold “M68.”
32) The iTunes license agreement stipulates that you agree not to use Apple products to create nuclear weapons
33) Apple is working on its own car, which it hopes to release by 2020
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