{"id":197,"date":"2016-06-14T01:20:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T22:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/igotoffer.com\/apple\/?p=197"},"modified":"2018-04-09T10:17:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T15:17:17","slug":"apple-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/igotoffer.com\/apple\/apple-trivia","title":{"rendered":"Apple Facts and Trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Here we will list some Apple facts and trivia, ranging from the first years of production to the present, from corporate board rooms to users\u2019 experience. Reading these stories \u2013 some of them see the light of day for the first time in history \u2013 will bring back memories, as most of these facts are monuments to days gone by. Every great company has its storytellers, as there is a fundamental need in the human psyche to produce amazing tales about what people like. So, take your seat and enjoy these short stories\u2026<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"toc_container\" class=\"no_bullets\"><p class=\"toc_title\">Contents<\/p><ul class=\"toc_list\"><li><a href=\"#Apple_Facts_and_Trivia\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">1<\/span> Apple Facts and Trivia<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Links\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">2<\/span> Links<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span id=\"Apple_Facts_and_Trivia\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong>Apple Facts and Trivia<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><em>Nuclear Weapons:<\/em><\/strong> By buying an Apple product or service, you have agreed not to use Apple products to create nuclear weapons. So, if you are thinking of doing so, think again, as you might violate the agreement.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><em>Empty Space:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>They say that when the prototype of Apple\u2019s iPod was shown to Steve Jobs, he dropped the gadget in an aquarium. Then, he said that the air bubbles proved there was empty space inside the iPod, thus it could be made smaller.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><em>Don\u2019t Shoot the Computer!:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>They say that the battery of an Apple MacBook could save its user from a gunshot, as it\u2019s bulletproof. But please, don\u2019t try to shoot the computer.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><em>Never Downloaded Apps:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0The Apple App Store has hundreds of thousands of apps. However, more than 70% of those apps have never been downloaded.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><em>Siri:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Siri was supposed to be used by Android and BlackBerry phones. However, in April of 2010, Apple bought Siri, Inc.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><em>Bill Gates:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Steve Jobs once accused Bill Gates of stealing technology from Apple. Bill Gates philosophically replied: \u201cI think it\u2019s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox. I broke into his house to steal his TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.\u201d<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><em>Employee Number:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0When Apple designated employee numbers, Steve Jobs saw that Stephen Wozniak received #1, while Jobs got #2. Steve Jobs was offended, as he believed he should be second to no one, so he took #0 instead.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><em>Vintage Apple:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>An Apple-1 computer built in Steve Jobs\u2019 garage in the summer of 1976 was sold at an auction in 2014 for US$905,000.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><em>Smoking Voids Warranty:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Did you know that smoking near Apple computers voids the warranty? Be careful not to smoke near your Mac!<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><em>Mining Ore:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>An Apple iPhone contains about 0.0012 ounces of gold, 0.012 ounces of silver, and 0.000012 ounces of platinum, worth $1.52, $0.24, and $0.017 respectively. Apple recovered 2,204 pounds of gold from broken and recycled iPhones in 2015. That\u2019s worth about US$40 million.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><em>9:41:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Every Apple iPhone ad displays the time as 9:41 AM, the time Steve Jobs unveiled it in 2007.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><em>Talk to Siri:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Everything you say to Siri is sent to Apple, analyzed, and stored by Apple deep in its archives.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><em>Adopted:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Steve Jobs was adopted. His biological father was Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian Muslim. Steve Jobs never wrote a single line of programming code, and was dyslexic. It\u2019s known that Abraham Lincoln, Walt Disney, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and Steve Jobs, all had no college degree. Steve Jobs was awarded 141 new patents since his death. Today, the Bible, Steve Jobs\u2019 Bio, and the Hunger Games, are the most highlighted kindle books ever. Steve Jobs did not let his kids use iPads and kept their use of technology to a minimum.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><em>Attention, Steve Jobs:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0They say that Steve Jobs\u2019 secretary was once late for work, because her car wouldn\u2019t start. That afternoon, Jobs gave her a set of keys for a brand new\u00a0Jaguar, saying: \u201cHere, don\u2019t be late anymore.\u201d It\u2019s also said that Steve Jobs believed that his vegan diet would eliminate the need of showering. He was very attentive to details, and once he called\u00a0Google\u00a0to tell them the yellow gradient in the second O of their logo wasn\u2019t quite right.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><em>Jobs\u2019 Grave:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Bill Gates wrote his rival Steve Jobs a comforting letter as he was dying. Jobs kept it by his bed. He turned down a partial liver transplant from now Apple-CEO Tim Cook two years before dying of cancer. Steve Jobs\u2019 last words were: \u201cOh, wow. Oh, wow. Oh, wow.\u201d\u00a0He is buried in an unmarked grave.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><em>Cassette and Disk Storage:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0In the very beginning, cassette storage may have been inexpensive, but it was also slow and unreliable. The first real Apple computer \u2013 Apple II\u2019s lack of a disk drive was a glaring weakness in what was otherwise intended to be a polished, professional product. Recognizing that the II needed a disk drive to be taken seriously, Apple set out to develop a disk drive and a DOS to run it. Steven Wozniak spent the 1977 Christmas holidays designing a disk controller that reduced the number of chips used by a factor of ten compared to existing controllers. Still lacking a DOS, and with Wozniak inexperienced in operating system design, Jobs approached Shepardson Microsystems with the project. On April 10, 1978, Apple signed a contract for $13,000 with Sheperdson to develop the DOS.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><em>One-Button Mouse:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Apple\u2019s mouse or trackpad used to have only one button. This has long infuriated the PC adepts who were thinking about switching to Mac and tried out a Mac to test it. Apple had to introduce a two-button mouse and allow the Macs to work with standard PC mice, to solve the problem. As for older Macs, clicking the Control button does exactly the same as right-clicking. Users can also right-click by tapping with two fingers simultaneously on the trackpad.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><em>Slide to Unlock:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Apple owns the patent for the \u201cSlide to Unlock\u201d feature.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><em>Fake Projects:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Apple used to assign fake projects to new employees to see if they could be trusted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span id=\"Links\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong>Links<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Check on our prices for your old Apple device. Sell it now to iGotOffer.com and save money for a very new Apple product! : <a href=\"https:\/\/igotoffer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sell Apple device<\/a> online now.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Have you discovered the iGotOffer blog? It\u2019s full of helpful personal articles and links leading to some of the world&#8217;s best-known resources about Apple products, news about consumer electronic market, its history and more. Reading our blog and our Apple Encyclopedia, you can gain valuable tips and information on many topics! Great advice is on its way to you!: <a href=\"https:\/\/igotoffer.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iGotOffer Blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we will list some Apple facts and trivia, ranging from the first years of production to the present, from corporate board rooms to users\u2019 experience. 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