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When we think of Apple, the first thing that comes to mind is its products.
But it’s not just what we’ve seen on the market. There have been some interesting designs.
Let’s find out
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The first Apple product, the **Apple I **, sold for $666.66. Part of the reason for choosing this price is that at a production cost of $500, it’s about a third of the profit. Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder, likes repeating numbers. They apparently did not realize that this was the number of the devil (666 is thought to be the number of the devil in revelation).
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The Apple I was released in 1976 and had only 4KB of RAM. Forty years later, the high-end Mac Pro has been upgraded to 64GB with 16 million times more processing power.
3
In October 1993, Apple released the All-in-one Macintosh TV, the company’s first television, an attempt to build a television based on the Mac computer platform. A black version of Apple’s Performa Macs, it has a 14-inch screen, a built-in TV tuner card and a remote control. You can use a remote control to control it to switch between computer and cable TV.
When it was released, the device cost about $2,100, or about $3,500 in today’s dollars after accounting for inflation and other factors. Mac TV was not a hit, and only about 10,000 units were produced before it was discontinued in 1994.
4
Apple released a camera called the Apple QuickTake in 1994, but it was discontinued in 1997.
5
In 1998, modern Apple was born and introduced the iMac computer. Jobs says the “I” in the name “iMac” stands for a lot of things, including Internet, individual, instruct, inform and inspire. Later, Apple put the little letter “I” into almost everything from the iPod to the iPhone. However, Apple recently dropped the ‘I’ prefix from its new products, and the last product to retain the prefix was iCloud in 2011.
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The 1998 iMac was known as the “death bell” when it sounded a false alarm when it encountered problems while operating.
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The earliest iPods had a hidden Easter Egg game that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak invented while they were at Atari. Later versions of the iPod added three more games: Parachute, Solitaire, and Music Quiz, which can be played without iOS.
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The iPhone Project was originally codenamed ** Project Purple **. According to one source, Project Purple occupied an entire building at Apple’s headquarters and even had its offices “heavily guarded” outside. The company considered many names for the iPhone, including “Telepod,” “Mobi,” “Tripod,” and even “iPad.”
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In 2008, Apple applied for a patent for a computer that projected images on a screen onto a nearby wall.
10
The circle of sewn fur on iOS7 and its previous iCal icon is based on the interior of Jobs’ private jet.
11
The “add to reading list” icon in iOS7 was based on Steve Jobs’ glasses.
12
In Apple’s ads, the time shown on products is also carefully chosen. The time “09:41” is often displayed on the iPhone, as this is when Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone prototype in 2007.
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Traditional watches often display the time “10:10” on the watch, because this is the best time to show the style of the watch. But the Apple Watch appears to run at 10:09 because Apple wants to beat its predecessors by a minute.
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In 2015, Apple sold 201,529,000 iphones, or 6.4 per second.
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