apple computer was established in 1976 byronald wayne, steve wozniak, and steve jobs. after only two weeks, wayne left the companyand sold his 10% stock for $800. if he'd kept those 10% to this day, it would be worth over $60 billion.a few months after wayne's departure, apple released the apple 1. steve wozniak developedand designed both the hardware and operating system. in fact, the apple 1 was the firsttime in history that a character displayed
apple real time stock price, on a tv screen was generated by a home computer.only a year later, wozniak developed the apple ii. the first pc with color. in 1984, applelaunched the first macintosh. in 1985 something interesting happened. a power struggle developedbetween jobs and then ceo john sculley. as a result of this, apple's board of directorsremoved jobs from his management duties which
in turn lead to his resignation from the companythe same year. after jobs left, apple would struggle financially for many years to come.meanwhile, jobs founded a new company called next. next released a couple of pcs but mostimportantly developed software like nextstep and openstep. these would later on serve asthe building blocks for mac os x. because of next's continued growth and apple's continuedfinancial failures, apple actually purchased next in 1996. and as part of the agreement,steve jobs returned to apple. once he was back at apple, jobs began restructuring thecompany's product line and products like the imac g3, mac os x, itunes, and most importantlythe ipod where all released. the ipod was a mayor success, which in turn lead to thecompany changing its name from apple computer, inc.
to simply apple inc. in 2007, apple releasedthe iphone and has since become the most valuable brand in the world. almost every advertisement and all promotionalmaterial for apple's products has the time set to 9:41 am. this is becauseon the 9th of january, 2007 at 9:41 am steve jobs unveiled the iphone to the public. nowadays it's easy to take things for granted.especially technology. we use things every day without really thinking about it. forexample, when was the last time you thought about the origin of rounded rectangles? in1981, apple employee bill atkinson came up with a new algorithm to draw ovals and circleson the macintosh. but steve jobs wasn't impressed,
he wanted something more. he wanted rectangleswith rounded corners. bill said it would be almost impossible and impractical, but jobsinsisted. so the very next day, bill came up with a new algorithm that could draw rectangleswith rounded corners just as fast as regular rectangles. he simply called them roundrects.but even though apple wasn't the first to use this sort of primitive, they are certainlyresponsible for its use in more or less every user interface ever since. apple fans can be a little extreme at times.don't get me wrong, i like that sweet taste of as good apple every now and then but imean, there's a lot of other fruit out there. why limit yourself to a tiny apple when youcan have like a melon! right? i mean seriously,
you can't say no to a melon. just look atthat thing! that.. waow! is anyone else getting weirdly turned on by this? fans of apple thecompany, can be a little extreme. a japanese blogger so badly wanted to have the firstiphone 6 that he started waiting outside an apple store 7 months before the iphone 6 wasexpected to be released. i say expected because, at the time, the iphone 6 hadn't even beenannounced yet. but he gave up pretty quickly and didn't actually sit there for the entire7 months. have you ever read through an entire end userlicense agreement? that's a rhetorical question and if you said yes, you're fucking lying.
there's nothing in this world we agree to faster than this wall of text. but if youwhere to read the eula for itunes, which i absolutely did not do. at the very end, you'llfind this clause. "you also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by united states law, including, without limitation, the development, design,manufacture or production of... nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons." ehm.. i.. i'm not.. i'm not entirely sure how that.. like.. how that goes along with itunes? but,yeah. it's there! in case, you know.. in case you should want to spend the weekend creatingbiological weapons with your friends and stuff, you know.. like that kind of stuff. it happens.we've all been there!
when apple first started releasing laptops,the logo on the back was always up side down. or right side up, depending on how you lookat it. it was found that when a laptop had the logo facing away from the user when closed(like it is nowadays) people would attempt to open the laptop from the wrong side. butsomewhere along the line they realized that most people aren't actually that dumb so thelogo was reversed. with the release of the appstore in 2008,mobile gaming has become a pretty huge hit to say the least. still if you're a gamer,apple products usually aren't your first choice. no offense to any apple fans watching thisbut it's quite uncommon to see the apple logo on new game releases. however, once upon atime apple actually made a video game console.
it was called the apple pippin and was releasedin 1995 in japan and the us. it was supposed to compete with sega saturn, sony playstation,and the nintendo 64. there's was only one slight problem, it failed miserably. it hada price tag of $599 and only sold around 42,000 copies. but the biggest issue was that theus version only had 18 games. there's a lot of rumors about the apple logoand why the company is named apple. for example, a popular misconception is that the logo isa representation of the forbidden fruit mentioned in the bible. the truth however, is far moreunexceptional. both steve jobs and steve wozniak has said that the name apple was randomlychosen because of its simplicity and as they couldn't come up with a better name. at thetime, personal computers where not that common
so they wanted a name that was easy to understandand not intimidating to the average person. the logo was also chosen because of its simplicity.at the very beginning though, they actually used a logo featuring isaac newton sittingunder an apple tree. but this was changed because it would be unrecognizable in smallprint. when they changed the logo to the current design they considered using a logo with orwithout the bite, but in the end the logo with the bite was chosen to make smaller versionsindistinguishable from a cherry. everything you say to siri is recorded, sent toapple, analyzed, and then stored for 2 years. and don't act surprised, it's all therein that wall of text you absolutely read before clicking accept, right? i mean you did that,right? no but seriously, in this day and age,
when privacy is becoming more and more a thingof the past, it's sadly not that much of a surprise anymore. so next time you talk toyour you phone, know that it's someone's job to sit and listen to everything you say. in 1987, apple released a series of videostitled knowledge navigator. let's take a quick look. it's a pretty amazing coincidence thatexactly 20 years later apple would unveil the iphone with more or less the same touchtechnology shown in the video. but that's not why i showed you this. let's look at itagain. it's quite hard to see but the calender in the video says september 16th. then heasks the personal assistant for a research
paper from 5 years ago. which turns out tobe from 2006. that means, the video is set to take place in september 2011. now here'sthe thing. siri, apple's actual personal assistant was released in october 2011. only a monthafter the date they predicted.
