The Apple Empire: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Tech Giant

Steve Jobs in 2000 offered Linus Torvalds to come work for Mac OS to make “Unix for the biggest user base”. Not only this, Jobs even tried to persuade Linus to drop working on Linux.

Steve Jobs gave John Lennon's 9-year-old son a Macintosh computer on his birthday. Sean Lennon instinctively knew how to draw with the mouse while Andy Warhol didn't get it and tried waving it like a baton.

One day Steve Jobs called Google to tell them the yellow gradient in the second "O" wasn't quite right.

Apple left a known iTunes vulnerability unpatched for 3 years. It was used by governments against dissidents and to snoop on users.

An iPhone has about 75 elements in it i.e., two-thirds of the periodic table.

The trademark for iOS does not belong to Apple but is instead licensed from Cisco, who owns the trademark.

Apple made retailers buy iMacs in "five-packs, one in each color," so that Apple wouldn't get stuck with the unpopular colors.

When the first MacBook Air was launched in 2008, Apple offered an option to upgrade to a 64GB SSD, for an additional $1,000.

Every Apple Macintosh from 1984 to the early 90s had Steve Jobs's and his team's signatures engraved on the inside of the case.

The first design of the iPhone was made back as far as 1983, which looks more like the iPad, but with an actual phone attached.