It's about apple company.
Guys I am talking about some mysterious and amazing facts about iPhone and it's company Apple.
(1).It was a landmark day at 3rd August 2018,that Apple became the first US company to hit the magical 13-figure market cap.
In other words,it became the first company to have a value of 1 trillion dollars.While Apple has been at the forefront of many technical innovations over the years, it's most well known,most successful and ‘historical’product is the iPhone we all know.
(2). Apple's Smartphone wasn't the first iPhone.
Incidently,it was Cisco which had a trademark registered under the name iPhone.Both Apple and Cisco settled the dispute which allowed them to use the name iPhone.
(3).** Steve jobs made a prank call when introducing the first iPhone**.
The first prank call made by the iPhone was by none other than Steve jobs.In 2007,jobs reportedly called a Starbucks to get 4,000 lattes delivered.
(4).The slide to unlock idea was inspired by an airoplane bathroom
It was reported that UI designer Freddy Anzures was on a flight from New York to San Francisco when he went into the bathroom stall and saw slide to lock.The idea of the famous “Slide to Unlock” germinated from that moment on.
(5).The first iPhone had Codename P1 and P2.
It's reported that work on iPhone began years before it was launched in 2007.There were two “projects" under which the work on iPhone was happening and they were Codename P1 and P2.Incidently,those phones were never launched.
(6).iPhone could have had a 🎹 keyboard or even a graffiti keyboard.
iPhone made touch screen popular with the iPhone but it toyed with the idea of having a piano keyboard or even a graffiti keyboard.
(7).NASA sends two iPhones aboard the STS-135 SPACE SUTTLE.
In July 2011,NASA sent two iPhones in space as part of a space mission.
(8).The iPhone 6 plus was used to photograph Christmas decorations in White House.
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Popular photographer used an iPhone 6 plus to Capture the Christmas decorations in the White House.This was the first time a camera phone was used to do so.
(9). It's always 9:41am in iPhone ads.
This is because Steve jobs first started the iPhone presentation at 9 am.It was expected that he would finish the presentation at 9:41 or later it became 9:42.
(10).Over 1 million 4S models were sold in the first 24 hours after it's release in October 2011.
(11).The Smartphone giant changed it's name to Apple from Apple computer after the launch of iPhone
Such was the impact of the iPhone that Apple dropped the computer from it's name and renamed itself as Apple Inc.
(12).iPhone contributes to 61% of the company's revenue.
The iPhone has been by far the most valuable product for Apple.So much so that 61% of the company's revenue come from the iPhone.
(13).Apple Co-founder Steve jobs died just a day after the launch of iPhone 4S.
It was the last iPhone under the leaderships of Steve jobs.The company since then has been under the stewardship of Time cook.
(14).**Apple has never teased it's upcoming iPhone ever **
The iPhone is the most-awaited tech product almost every year.The company-unlike most other brands- never gives any hint or “teasers”.It remains a closely- guarded secret till it's officially unveiled.
(15).Microsoft CEO's “famous words” on the iPhone.
“There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.No chance.its a 500 dollars subsidized item."Yes,this is what the then -Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer said at the time of launching the iPhone.
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