While reading an article about 100 facts about Steve Jobs and Apple, I ran across a parody link for Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs ceoSteveJobs on Twitter). I included some of the 100 Facts that I found interesting from the 100 facts below.
I can remember my parents and their Apple IIe, with the large floppy, flipping it over, and Print Shop, with Banner Sheet Paper! Amazing how things have changed from a technology stand point. Apple employees all receiving an iPhone in 2007 (wow), salary of $1, only 6 Board of Directors (including Al Gore), and income from Disney stock at $48M a year. While the salary is only a $1, the perks of the company far outweigh the measurement of such.
Highlights of the 100 Facts -
- The Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan (the cube) is said to be one of the most photographed landmarks in the world.
- Steve Jobs bought Pixar from George Lucas for $10 million and sold it to Disney for $7.6 billion.
- Nine U.S. states don’t have Apple stores: Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.
- Steve Jobs bought Pixar from George Lucas for $10 million and sold it to Disney for $7.6 billion.
- Apple once disposed of 2,700 unsold Lisas in a Utah landfill. The computer originally sold at $10,000 each.
- The longest-lived Apple computer of all time was the Apple IIe, which was on sale for nearly 11 years.
- Apple didn’t sell a Windows-compatible iPod until nine months after the iPod was introduced.
- The time shown on all of the devices in pictures on Apple’s website is the same (9:41 a.m. for iOS devices and 10:50 a.m. for Macs). The time is coordinated with when the pictures will be shown during Steve Jobs’ keynote address.
- Steve Jobs’ largest parody Twitter account is @ceostevejobs.
- Steve Jobs pays himself an annual salary of $1.
- Steve Jobs’ annual income from Disney shares is $48 million.
- Steve Jobs has big feet, at size 14.
- Macs last an average of six years. PCs last an average of four years.
- The average PC owner spends 50 hours a year troubleshooting. The average Mac owner spends 5 hours a year.
- Teachers and students using Macs are found to be 44% more productive.
- When it was first released Steve Jobs gave every Apple employee a free iPhone.
- Apple began work on a touch-screen tablet before work began on the iPhone. The iPad wasn’t released until three years after the iPhone, however.
- The very first image shown on the Macintosh was of Disney character Scrooge McDuck.
- In 2010 Apple’s market cap exceeded Microsoft for the first time since 1989.