25 High Tech Facts About Apple And How It Made Technology Cool
Nathan Johnson
Published
04/20/2016
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There are few companies that have changed the world as much as Apple.
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In July of 2011, Apple had more cash in the bank than the US government -
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By using iTunes, you have agreed to not use Apple products to build nuclear weapons -
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Apple stores everything you say to Siri -
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Smoking near an Apple computer voids the warranty -
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Employees at Apple Headquarters earn an average of $125,000 per year -
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Some "entrepreneurs" in China started fake Apple stores. Even the staff thought they were working for the real Apple. -
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Every minute, Apple earns $300,000 -
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In the movie Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Apple products got nearly 8 minutes of screen time (an estimated $23 million of advertising). Of course, Apple got it for free. -
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1983 brought the first iPhone design. It looked more like an iPad with a landline attached. -
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In the 1990s Apple used Carl Sagan as the codename for a computer. He sued them so they changed it to "butt-head astronomer". He then came after them for libel and lost. So Apple change the name to "lawyers are wimps". -
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In 1979, a patent was submitted by a man named Kane Kramer that almost perfectly resembled what an iPod would eventually look like -
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iOS is actually trademarked by Cisco, not Apple -
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Apple co-founder Ronald Wayne sold his shares for $800. Today they would have been worth $35 billion -
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Baking a Macbook's motherboard in the oven (yes, baking like a cake!) is a legitimate way to fix it -
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Apple can't use the iPhone trademark in Brazil because a company called Gradiente Eletronicas registered it in 2000 -
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Google makes more profit off of iOS than it does off of Android -
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The iPhone is nearly twice as expensive in Brazil as it is in the US -
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At one point, there was a featureless app called "I Am Rich" sold on the app store. It cost $999.99 and 8 people bought it before Apple removed it. -
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According to the manual your are supposed to hold an iPhone several inches from your head to comply with FCC and European Union guidelines concerning RF exposure -
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A teenager in China sold his kidney to buy an iPhone -
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Pilots like to use iPads as a replacement to traditional pen and paper -
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To oversee its more than 200,000 workers in China, Apple had to hire more than 8,000 engineers. This would take up to 9 months in the US. In China it took 2 weeks. -
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Companies are not allowed to give away iPhones or iPads for free (according to Apple guidelines) -
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Every iPhone ad has the time at 9:41 AM. This is when Steve Jobs unveiled it in 2007 -
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The processor for the iPhone is actually made by Samsung
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