{"id":3144,"date":"2016-10-05T14:46:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T11:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/igotoffer.com\/apple\/?p=3144"},"modified":"2023-11-17T07:12:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T07:12:02","slug":"curiosities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/igotoffer.com\/apple\/curiosities","title":{"rendered":"Curiosities &#8211; Fascinating Facts about Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">No other consumer electronics company has captured our fascination quite like Apple. Apple has revolutionized the world, and become a representation of a new culture, and a status symbol.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"toc_container\" class=\"no_bullets\"><p class=\"toc_title\">Contents<\/p><ul class=\"toc_list\"><li><a href=\"#7_iFacts_You_Didn8217t_Know_About_Apple_Video\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">1<\/span> 7 iFacts You Didn&#8217;t Know About Apple [Video]<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Curiosities_Fascinating_Facts_about_Apple\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">2<\/span> Curiosities: Fascinating Facts about Apple<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Links\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">3<\/span> Links<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<h2><span id=\"7_iFacts_You_Didn8217t_Know_About_Apple_Video\">7 iFacts You Didn&#8217;t Know About Apple [Video]<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"ytb\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe title=\"7 iFacts You Didn&#039;t Know About Apple\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JhNJKrLZGok?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Video uploaded by <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@BuzzFeedVideo\" target=\"_blank\">BuzzFeedVideo<\/a> on <strong class=\"watch-time-text\">September 9, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Curiosities_Fascinating_Facts_about_Apple\">Curiosities: Fascinating Facts about Apple<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Apple folklore has it that the\u00a0<em>Sosumi\u00a0<\/em>sound effect was a cheeky response to the Apple Computer vs. Apple Corps (the corporation of the Beatles) legal conflict in the 1990s. Originally it was called Let It Beep, but when somebody told the musician Jim Reeks that it wouldn\u2019t get through Apple\u2019s legal department, he changed it to\u00a0<em>Sosumi\u00a0<\/em>(a homophone to\u00a0<em>So Sue Me<\/em>), and told the legal department that it was Japanese. (Source: Mac Secrets, by Mark Hattersley, Wiley Publishing, Inc. 2011).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">The very first Apple logo featured Newton sitting under a tree, with an apple is about to hit his head. \u00a0The Newton logo was designed by one of the Apple founders, Ronald Wayne (the same guy who sold his stake to Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak for $800 just a couple of weeks after the company had been created). This logo was used briefly in 1976, but the high level of detail didn\u2019t show up that well when shrunk down and stuck on a product. Then, the rainbow apple, designed by Rob Janoff, replaced the first logo. That version remained the symbol of the company for many years. A new monochromatic Apple logo was introduced in 1998.In order to raise money to bu<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">ild the first orders of the Apple I, Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen van, and Steven Wozniak sold his scientific calculator for $500 (back in 1976, a scientific calculator cost as much as a laptop does today).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Dogcow:<\/em>\u00a0Clarus the Dogcow, designed by Susan Kare, was included in the Cairo font as part of the original Macintosh. After the Cairo font was discontinued, Dogcow lived on with LaserWriter Driver 4.0. Later it became a sort of mascot for the Apple tech staff. It could be found on all versions of the Mac OS until OS X. Clarus makes a \u201cmoof\u201d sound. In the late 1980s, Clarus started to be used by other developer groups \u2014 even Microsoft once used Dogcow in an advertisement. Apple was not fond of this, and released a Technical Note to stop the misuse. Later on, Technical Note #31 was included on the first Apple Developer CDs as an Easter egg. Apple even registered trademarks for both Clarus the Dogcow, and her \u201cmoof\u201d sound.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10943\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10943\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-fix-w-600 wp-image-10943\" src=\"https:\/\/igotoffer.com\/apple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/clarus-the-dogcow-600x460.png\" alt=\"Clarus the Dogcow\" width=\"600\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/igotoffer.com\/apple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/clarus-the-dogcow.png 600w, https:\/\/igotoffer.com\/apple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/clarus-the-dogcow-300x230.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clarus the Dogcow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Macintosh:<\/em> Where did this name come from? The story says that Apple employee, Jef Raskin, is responsible for coining the machine after his favorite variety of apple. Macintosh was just a code-name. It seems Steve Jobs tried to change the project\u2019s name to \u201cBicycle\u201d while the McIntosh-loving staffer was out of office. But, Raskin clearly knew a good name when he coined it, so he insisted on that name, and finally it stuck.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>First Mass-Market Color Digital Camera:<\/em>\u00a0Back in 1994, Apple launched the first mass-market color digital camera in the U.S. The Apple QuickTake 100 could snap eight photographs. It was connected to a Mac via a serial cable. The camera cost $749. Today the price seems really ridiculous for a camera boasting less than one-megapixel resolution and no digital display. The QuickTake line expanded to two more models, but Steve Jobs shut it down in 1997 when he returned to the helm at Apple.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Name of iPod and 2001:<\/em> Space Odyssey: Copywriter Vinnie Chieco is credited with coming up with the iPod name when the team was looking for a consumer-friendly moniker for the new MP3 player. Steve Jobs invented the player\u2019s tag-line: \u201c1,000 songs in your pocket\u201d, and Vinnie Chieco proposed a name that didn\u2019t refer to something music related. \u201cAs soon as I saw the white iPod, I thought 2001,\u201d Chieco explained while talking to <em>Wired<\/em> in 2006, \u201cOpen the pod bay door, Hal! Then it was just a matter of adding the \u2018i\u2019 prefix, as in \u2018iMac.&#8217;\u201dHal\u00a0 from 2001: Space Odyssey: Hal has another place in Apple history, in the sinister Y2K warning ad that Apple aired to advertise the fact that Macs would not implode with the whole 2000 switch-over, unlike all those PCs people insisted on using.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>iPod and Easter Egg:<\/em> Apple\u2019s first iPod came with a little secret. It had a nice Easter egg in the form of a game that could be accessed when the user knew the right combination of buttons to press. The way to use the combination and find the game was described in detail in Nick Triano\u2019s early 2002 <em>Geek.com<\/em> review of the iPod: \u201cGo to the \u2018About\u2019 menu, hold down the center button for about three seconds, and you\u2019ll get a <em>Breakout<\/em> (Pong) game to play while you listen.\u201d The hidden game was called<em> Breakout<\/em>. It is notable in Apple\u2019s history, as it was a product that both Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak worked on together at\u00a0<em>Atari<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Jony Ive and Style: Much is made of Steve Jobs\u2019 uniform, which consists of a black St. Croix turtle neck, Levi 501 jeans, and New Balance trainers. However, it turns out that Jobs is not the only senior Apple staffer to stick to the same styling year in and year out, as Sir Jony Ive, the senior designer, appears to have worn the same style of t-shirt in every single Apple intro product video to date.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span id=\"Links\">Links<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/igotoffer.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sell your pre-owned old electronics online<\/a> &#8211; iGotOffer<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Read our blog, where you can learn more about all aspects related to the consumer electronics and more: <a href=\"https:\/\/igotoffer.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iGotOffer Blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No other consumer electronics company has captured our fascination quite like Apple. 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