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1. Apple is now the world’s largest technology company.
2. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak had a third partner in the earliest days of Apple. Ronald Wayne sold his 10 per cent stake in the company for $800 in 1976.
3. The very first Apple iPod contained an Easter egg. By navigating to the ‘About’ menu and holding down the centre button for a few seconds, users could play a game of Breakout while listening to their musiccollection. The game itself had previously been developed by company founder Steve Jobs, with the help of co-founder Steve Wozniak, during Jobs’ time at Atari.
4. Despite the high profile of its machines, Apple Macintoshes hold less than 10 per cent of the personal computer market.
5. In 2011, Apple’s profits were the equivalent of $400,000 for each of its employees.
6. In 1994, Apple launched the world’s first mass-market colour digital camera. The QuickTake 100 had a resolution of less than one megapixel, no digital display and could hold only eight photographs before its memory was full. The product line was scrapped when Jobs returned to Apple in 1997.
7. Despite only being launched in 2007, iPhones accounted for more than 40 per cent of Apple’s annual revenues by 2011. More than three quarters of the company’s income is the result of products invented in the past decade.
8. During his last 15 years at Apple, CEO Steve Jobs was paid an annual salary of $1. This allowed him to qualify for company health benefits. Despite this, Jobs had a net worth of $7 billion.
9. Since the accessibility of custom t-shirt printing from companies likeVistaprint came around in the late 90s, there are now over 100 different designs of t-shirt created by and for Mac fan boys.
10. Steve Jobs hired renowned architect I. M. Pei to renovate his New York apartment. He then sold the home to Bono of U2 fame without ever having lived there himself.
