Interesting Apple Trivia Facts

The recent release of the iPhone was preceded by 200 patents for the revolutionary phone. 21 of the patents are actually innovative.

The idea for the Macintosh computer was actually Jef Raskin’s (employee #31) idea for a low cost, easy to use computer. Steve Jobs and Steve Wazniak rejected most of his ideas (no mouse) so Jef left the project. Steve Jobs took over and shaped the Mac into what it is today.

The first Mac computer was born on April 1st, 1976 and sold for $666.66.

Before co-founding Apple, Steve Jobs worked for Atari.

Steve Wozniak worked for Hewlet Packard before Apple was founded.

The GUI that the first Mac used originated at Xerox.

The former president of Pepsi is the new president of Apple.

Steve Jobs was fired by the board from his own company but returned when his company, Pixar, was acquired by Apple.

Acording to Sophos, there are more than 60 viruses that affect Macs. 0.16% of Mac users have reported problems.

OS X 10.4 has more than 86,000,000 lines of code.