33 Apple Stats That Will Blow Your Mind
A recent infographic published by Shop On Less highlights several interesting stats and facts about Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). Some of them might be known; others might be very surprising. So, without further ado, here are 33 intriguing Apple stats and facts:
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.
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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 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).
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, on 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 ELECT LTD(F) (OTC: SSNLF).
14. Additionally, Samsung manufactures 30 percent of the A8 chips used in the iPhone 6.
15. Even selling twice as many phones as Apple, Samsung has generated the same amount of revenue and a considerably smaller profit.
16. Apple creates fake projects from time to time to check for leaks among employees.
17. Apple generates more than $5,000 per second.
18. Apple has more operating cash than the U.S. Treasury.
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 spend five hours.
22. Apple could afford to buy everyone in the U.S. an iPod touch, and still have 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 seven months before the iPhone 6 was launched to get it first.
25. Apple stores and analyzes everything you say to Siri.
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) (NYSE: PHG) and RealNetworks Inc (NASDAQ: RNWK), but they both rejected it.
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 may working on its own car, which it hopes to release by 2020.
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