25 Interesting Facts About Apple Company Apple inc. The world’s largest American technology company. Apple is such a popular and famous brand that everyone wants to buy Apple products, but these products are very expensive. It is difficult for people with normal living standards to buy them, yet almost every person definitely dreams of taking Apple products. This company is one of the biggest top companies in the world. So know interesting facts related to Apple company, amazing Apple company facts
1. The Apple company was founded on April Fool’s Day i.e. April 1, 1976 in a garage.
2. Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, United States.
3. The founders of Apple company are Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.
4. Steve Jobs, the former CEO of Apple Company, used to receive only $1 salary while in his position.
5. Apple’s first computer cost $666.66 to make.
6. The Apple company is the world’s largest technology company by revenue and total assets.
7. Apple’s third co-founder ‘Ronald Wayne’ sold 10% of the shares of the Apple company held by him in 1977 to Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak for only $ 800, because he did not see any possibility in that company, but Had he not sold those shares, he would have been among the top richest people in the world today.
8. There are more than 60% of apps in the Apple App Store that have never been downloaded.
9. Apple released a statement on April 17, 2012, in which the company pledged to phase out the use of coal and move to 100% renewable energy. By 2014, all of its data centers around the world achieved 100% renewable energy use, meaning that the environmental damage from energy use in Apple’s data centers is almost negligible.
10. Apple employees earn up to $1,25,000 every year.
11. iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are the best selling mobile phones in history after Nokia 1100.
12. The first Apple 1 computer that Steve Jobs built in his garage was bought at a 2014 auction by the Henry Ford Museum for $905,000.
13. Apple is the world’s first trillion dollar company. Earlier, the market cap of any company had not reached trillion dollars.
14. Apple company is the world’s largest company by market cap. On 3 January 2022, Apple became the first company in the world with a market cap of 3 trillion. Earlier in history, the market cap of any company could not reach 3 trillion.
15. In the year 2018, Apple sold 5,72,000 mobile phones per day.
16. In the first quarter of 2014, Apple earned equal to the combined earnings of Google, Facebook and Amazon.
17. Apple uses its own operating system iOS in its mobile phones.
18. The retina display on Apple’s iPad and the memory chip used in the iPhone are made by Samsung.
19. The iPhone is almost twice as expensive in Brazil as in the United States.
20. Microsoft founder ‘Bill Gates’ invested $150 million on the Apple company in 1977 when the Apple company was about to be declared bankrupt. Then Steve Jobs said “Bill, thank you. The world’s a better place”. At that time this quote was published by ‘Time Magazine’ on its first cover page.
21. Apple is also popular worldwide in brand value. Apple comes first in the world’s most valuable brand.
21. According to the data of 2021, Apple had earned about $ 6,91,234 per minute.
22. Apple launched its IPO on 12 December 1980 in which the company raised $100 million. Since the Ford Company in 1956, no company’s IPO had added so much capital in history.
23. Apple launched iPod on 23 October 2001. iPod sold more than 100 million units within 6 years of its launch. No other audio player had sold so many units before.
24. On 24 August 2011, Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple and became the chairman of Apple. Tim Cook replaced Steve as CEO of Apple.
25. Apple prioritizes quality and security in its mobile laptops or other products. On 7 July 2020, Apple announced an optional security feature in its products called Lockdown mode. With the help of this mode the user gets protection from spyware cyber attacks.
