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51 unusual facts about Apple Inc.


Agata

AGATA, a popular acronym in the Apple community standing for "Apple Giveth, Apple Taketh Away"

Album Era

In 2001, Apple Inc.'s iTunes service was introduced and the iPod, a consumer-friendly MP3 player, was released later that year.

Arial Unicode MS

The font is also apparently licensed to Apple, who announced on October 16, 2007 that their flagship operating system, Mac OS X v10.5 ("Leopard"), would be bundled with Arial Unicode.

Art Authority

Art Authority is a media viewing software application for Apple's iOS and Macintosh, and Amazon's Kindle Fire.

Assassin's Creed II: Discovery

Ubisoft's producer Ben Mattes officially revealed the development of the game in Apple Inc.'s keynote speech on September 9, 2009, for a November 17 release.

Backlight

In 2007, Asus, Dell, and Apple introduced LED backlights into some of their notebook models.

Blue Microphones

However, unlike the latter, the Spark Digital offers a USB interface and could also connect directly to an Apple iPad via Apple’s 30-pin connector.

Blue-green

Apple christened the color of the exterior of its original iMac G3 personal computer "Bondi blue" when it was introduced in 1998.

Boardroom coup

In 1997, Apple Inc. (at the time known as Apple Computer inc.) and Steve Jobs ousted Gil Amelio in a boardroom coup, after which Jobs became interim CEO of Apple Computer, moving on to become full-time CEO shortly after.

Computers in the classroom

In 1975, Apple Inc. began donating Apple 1 model computers to schools, and mainframes began to lose their former dominance over academic research.

Crowdsourcing software development

Software crowdsourcing platforms including Apple Inc.’s App Store, TopCoder, and uTest demonstrate the advantage of crowdsourcing in terms of software ecosystem expansion and product quality improvement.

Delta update

Apple, with this addition to iOS, users receive a push notification letting them know the updates have been downloaded, and are ready to be installed, very similar to Android.

Global South Development Magazine

On its October 2011 edition, the magazine criticised Apple Inc. for their poor philanthropy records.

Greenlight Capital

As of 2013, the top equity holdings of the firm were in the shares of the following companies: Apple Inc, General Motors, Marvell Technology Group, CIGNA, Aetna, Computer Sciences, Delphi Automotive, NCR Corp., and Virgin Media.

H. A. Boucher

He also had an interest in telecommunications, sparked by the first Apple computers, and became known as a telecommunications whiz whose successes included a crusade to boost Internet access in remote Alaska villages.

Here's Willy Moon

Released on 10 September 2012, the track achieved moderate commercial success, featuring in an Apple iPod commercial.

Indirect tests of memory

In one such study, participant's attitudes towards Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows computers were compared using both an explicit measure and an IAT.

ISheep

The marketing term is borrowed by some in tech sites and forums as an insult to a person who is an Apple Inc. products fan.

Isotope 244

Isotope 244's game Land Air Sea Warfare garnered many positive reviews and was even selected by Apple Inc. as the first iPad Game of the Week.

ITunes Originals – Jars of Clay

As the title suggests, the album is available only through Apple's iTunes Store.

Java security

An OS X trojan referred to as Flashback exploited a vulnerability in Java, which had not been patched by Apple, although Oracle had already released a patch.

King Street, Perth

Other High end retailers surround King street on Hay Street including - Burberry, Emporio Armani, Canali, Hugo Boss and Apple.

KMVT

KMVT became the first station to air Apple Computer's famous "1984" commercial on December 31, 1983, before midnight, to ensure the ad would qualify for the year 1984's advertising awards, which only counted ads aired in 1983.

Lahti Institute of Design

The school has during its history educated many professionals in key positions around the world in such companies as Honda, Toyota, Apple, Marimekko, Nokia and H&M.

Laurent Touil-Tartour

On October 19, 2012, Apple releases an exclusive and innovative mobile app edition of Urban Wolf available on its 172 iTunes App Stores worldwide for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

Love Hina

After a rough sketch of a page was created, the page layout and basic detail were drawn and scanned into an Apple Macintosh.

MacArthur Central

At 10 AM on 17 January 2014, Apple Inc. opened it's first Brisbane retail store within a heritage building in the MacArthur Chambers Building.

Mindfire Solutions

Founded in Delhi in 1999 by Chinmoy Panda (BITS Pilani, IIM-A alumnus), who is also the current CEO, Mindfire Solutions is an ISO 9001:2000 certified company and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner as well as an Apple Premier Partner.

Multipath TCP

Apple iOS7, released on September 18, 2013 is the first large scale commercial deployment of Multipath TCP.

NGC 3190

In 2012 Apple Inc used a blue tinted image of NGC 3190 as their desktop image for their release of OS X Mountain Lion.

North East Surrey College Of Technology

The school is recognised as an Apple Authorised Training Centre and holds academy status with CISCO, Microsoft, and Oracle as a specialist training provider.

Nottingham Trent University, School of Art and Design

In the field of art and design, NTU has links with a wide range of companies, professional bodies and institutions on an international level, including Apple, Arcadia Group, Broadway, Fashion Institute of Technology, Marks & Spencer, Ralsey Group Limited, Association of Illustrators, Sony, and Sophie Stellar.

Okimate 10

The Okimate 10 by Oki Electric Industry was a low-cost 1980s color printer with interface "plug 'n print" modules for Commodore, Atari, IBM PC, and Apple Inc. home computers.

Park City High School

The current model issued to students is the 11-inch Apple Macbook Air.

Pi in the Sky

The planes deliberately flew over the headquarters of NASA Ames, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Apple.

Play N Trade

Play N Trade stores sell new and used consumer electronics, including video games and consoles, Apple products, laptops, and cellular phones, and accept trade-ins of the same.

QR code

QR codes can be used in Google's Android, BlackBerry OS, Nokia Symbian Belle and Apple iOS devices (iPhone/iPod/iPad), as well as Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system, Google Goggles, 3rd party barcode scanners, and the Nintendo 3DS.

Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger

That same year, she asked Apple Inc. to tell state data protection officials about the kind of data the company was gathering on individual iPhone users in Germany.

Secrets of the Cryptkeeper's Haunted House

Usually, the winning team would receive Apple computers, while the runners up would receive a set of the Grolier New Book of Knowledge.

Shane Lundgren

In 1994 he led the first "online" expedition sponsored by Wired magazine, Magnavox, and Apple Inc. flying across Arctic Siberia in a pair of Russian biplanes.

Star Warped

Star Warped was released in late 1997, with versions for the Windows PC and Apple Macintosh operating systems.

Stepstone

As Apple Computer acquired NeXT a year later, they now hold the rights to Objective-C.

Stitcher Radio

Stitcher has been featured several times by Apple in the App Store and has been designated as an Apple Staff Pick.

TBWA\Chiat\Day

Prior to the merger, Chiat/Day created internationally notable advertising, including “1984” for Apple Computer that introduced the Macintosh computer.

This Providence

In September 2005, This Providence announced that drummer Paul Benson was leaving the band to pursue new career paths, eventually with Apple Inc..

Tokyo Opera City Tower

The fifth through fifty-second floors are devoted to office space; the building's best-known tenants are NTT East Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc.

Toyo Rikagaku Kenkyusho

Known for its relationship with Apple Inc., Toyo Rikagaku Kenkyusho manufactures the casing for PowerBook G4, MacBook Pro and iPod models.

Val Golding

The first meeting of the group had 15 people at it and within a year, the group had grown to a couple thousand Apple computer fans.

Virgin Electronics

As competition in the digital media device & accessories market really took off, the company struggled against more innovative rivals, particularly Apple Inc. and iRiver.

WebPlatform

The project is a collaboration among Adobe Systems, Apple Inc., Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera Software, and W3C, who are called "stewards" of the Web Platform project.

WikiNodes

WikiNodes is an app for the Apple iPad built by IDEA.org.


Apple Paladin

The Paladin is a conceptual combination of a computer, fax machine, scanner, and phone all-in-one designed by Apple Computer as a single office solution for a small business, as well as for use in hotel rooms for business travelers.

Daryl Cagle

Cagle publishes iPhone, Android and iPad apps, including one with cartoons about Tiger Woods which made news when it was rejected by Apple Inc., because of Apple's policy of not allowing apps that ridicule public figures.

Eazel

The enterprise was staffed with former employees of Apple, Netscape, Be Inc., Linuxcare, Microsoft, Red Hat and Sun Microsystems, among others.

Graham Robertson

Based on the experiences of directing Able Edwards, Robertson went on to write the book, Desktop Cinema: Feature Filmmaking on the Home Computer, a step-by-step account into how one would make their own feature film on Apple's Macintosh computer.

Harte-Hanks

Also, Harte Hanks provides customer service/technical support for selected products of major companies such as Microsoft, FedEx, Samsung and Apple Inc.

High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation

High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation involves a 2010 United States Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust action and a 2013 civil class action against Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar and Lucasfilm for alleged "no cold call" agreements which restrained the recruitment of high-tech employees.

ITunes Radio

iTunes Radio is an Internet radio service by Apple Inc. Announced at the 2013 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 10, 2013, the service launched on September 18, 2013, the same day as iOS 7.

John Vallins

later from EMI Studios where he produced multi award winning tracks for clients like American Express, Apple Inc., Dilmah Tea, De Beers, Domino’s Pizza, and many more.

Karen Richardson

She is married to Jon Rubinstein, former senior vice president and general manager of Hewlett-Packard Company’s Palm Global Business Unit and former senior vice president of Apple Inc.'s iPod division.

Kurt Schemers

Additionally, Traders Nation is the only financial talk show pre-loaded in Apple's iTunes software, and has been found in RealMedia's European player, and Equity Feed commercial software platform.

MacWorks Plus

It was developed for Sun Remarketing of Cache Valley, Utah, under license from Apple Inc., by a contract developer named Chuck Lukaszewski, who was responsible for versions up through 1.1(h), which supported up to Macintosh System 6.0.3.

Matrix Partners

Among the firm's notable investments, Matrix Partners was an early stage investor in Apple Inc., Arrowpoint Communications, Digium, JBoss, JustFab, PSINet, SanDisk, Silverstream Software, TheLadders.com, Sonus Networks, Tivoli Software, Tollbridge Technologies, VERITAS Software, Vermeer Technologies Incorporated, and Xilinx.

Mini-VGA

Mini-VGA connectors are most commonly seen on Apple's iBooks, eMacs, early PowerBooks (12 inch), and some iMacs, but has also been included on several laptops manufactured by Sony.

New Soul

It later rebounded into the top 50 due to being featured on the Apple MacBook Air commercials, but nonetheless the song spent a total of 19 weeks on the chart.

Node graph architecture

Shake is a discontinued compositing application for film made by Nothing Real LLC and later purchased by Apple.

OpenLink Software

are also embedded in products by other companies including: Apple, North Plains Systems, Avaya, Lucent, Sungard Bi-Tech, Open Text, and others.

OpenMAX

Promoting members in 2008 were AMD, Apple, ARM, Creative, Dell Inc, Ericsson, Freescale, Imagination Technologies Group plc, Intel, IBM, Motorola, Nokia, Nvidia Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, SK Telecom, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc and Texas Instruments.

Paul Deneve

In their announcement, Apple Inc specified Deneve will work on "special projects" and report directly to Tim Cook, however his exact responsibilities were not disclosed.

Private equity in the 1990s

In the 1980s, FedEx and Apple Inc. were able to grow because of private equity or venture funding, as were Cisco, Genentech, Microsoft and Avis.

Reality distortion field

Reality distortion field (RDF) is a term coined by Bud Tribble at Apple Computer in 1981, to describe company co-founder Steve Jobs' charisma and its effects on the developers working on the Macintosh project.

Ritmoteca.com

Founded in Miami, Florida in 1998 during the Dot-com bubble by Ivan J. Parron, and Ricardo Decubas, the company was the leading Latin music download website and an early predecessor to Apple Inc.'s now highly successful iTunes business model of selling digital music downloads over the Internet.

Stephen T. McClellan

He has made television appearances on CBS, CNN MoneyLine, CNBC, and Wall Street Week, and given presentations to numerous organizations, conferences, and to companies, such as IBM, Apple, Automatic Data Processing, and Electronic Data Systems.

Sunnyvale Town Center

As of March 2013, the only active tenants of the downtown proper (apart from Target and Macy's) are Apple and Nokia, which have occupied office space along Mathilda Ave.

Text box

Pressing Home/End keys (Microsoft's Windows OS) or Command-left arrow/Command-right arrow (Apple's Mac OS) moves the caret to the beginning/end of the line;

The MobileStore

The MobileStore retails mobiles of domestic and international brands like Apple, HTC, BlackBerry, Samsung, Micromax, Maxx, Karbonn Mobiles, Motorola Spice, Sony Ericsson, Vodafone and others.

The Plane Train

The 2006 recordings were the first to use the phonetic alphabet, and were provided by the voice of Susan Bennett (who is best known today for being the voice of Siri on Apple's iPhone, as well as the female voice of Delta Air Lines' gate boarding announcements at the airport).

Tommy Sparks

A clip of "She's Got Me Dancing" was used by Apple in the iPod touch "Next Level Fun" television commercial as well as being featured in the soundtrack for the video game FIFA 10.

Universal binary

A universal binary is, in Apple parlance, an executable file or application bundle that runs natively on either PowerPC or Intel-manufactured IA-32 or Intel 64-based Macintosh computers; it is an implementation of the concept more generally known as a fat binary.

Yoot Tower

You can place billboards for Apple Computer and Sega, while there are tenants featuring real-world stores like GameWorks, Orange Julius or Air Jamaica.