Steve Jobs was an incredible visionary who transformed the computer, mobile and music
industries.
He single handedly brought Apple back from the dead and transformed it into one of the
richest and most influential companies in the world today.
But here's some things you might not know about Steve Jobs and Apple.
1.
Steve had amazing attention to detail, one day he called Google to tell them the yellow
gradient in the O of their logo, wasn't quite right.
2.
Steve persuaded PepsiCo president John Sculley to become Apple's CEO in 1983.
By telling him "Do you want to sell sugared water all your life, or do you want to change
the world?".
The irony is John Sculley later fired Steve Jobs from Apple in 1985.
But Steve Jobs claimed that being fired was the best thing that ever happened to him,
because it lead to the most creative period of his life.
3.
During Job's time away from Apple Computer he was a busy bunny, he started a brand new
computer company called NeXT, and bought a small, but soon to be large, animation studio
called Pixar.
Pixar later went on to strike a game changing deal with Walt Disney and created the legendary
"Toy Story", on which Steve Jobs was executive producer.
NeXT was eventually bought by Apple and Jobs returned to Apple in 1996.
3.
Jobs was obsessed with the quality of design.
On his death bed he refused to wear his oxygen mask because he didn't like its design.
4.
Apple sell approximately 10 iOS devices per second, that's not including their Mac range.
5.
Apple Computer was started by two college dropouts, Steve Jobs and his buddy Steve Wozniak.
They launched the company from Steve's family's garage in 1976.
6.
Apple's factory in China, where iPhones are manufactured, employees 230,000 people.
There have been 18 suicides at the plant.
Suicide nets are now in place to prevent any more employees' from taking their own lives.
7.
The very first Apple logo showed Isaac Newton sitting under a tree, with an apple about
to fall on his head.
8.
Apple made the first mass-market digital camera, called the Apple QuickTake.
It was launched in 1994 during Steve Job's absence from the company.
It had 0.3 megapixels.
The camera was a massive failure and Jobs removed it from the market upon his return
to Apple.
9.
The first Apple computer, appropriately named the Apple 1 was released in 1976.
It cost $666.66.
Only 200 were ever made.
10.
The third founder of Apple, Ronald Wayne sold his share of the company in 1976, for a measly
$800.
His shares would be worth an estimated $35 billion today.
11.
Apple is worth $624 billion.
In fact Apple now has more disposable cash than the entire U.S. Treasury.
12.
If the iPad were manufactured in the U.S. Because of the major difference in wages and
running costs, it would cost a staggering $14,970.
13.
Jobs was born to an Arab father.
He was later adopted by a middle-class couple.
Clara and Paul Jobs and grew up in California.
14.
Steve's first job was a video game designer for Atari.
He used the money he earned from Atari to travel to India for a spiritual retreat in
1974.
It is rumoured he returned home wearing traditional Indian clothing and had a shaved head.
Jobs then became a Buddhist.