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9. Project Confidentiality Is a Big Thing at Apple
Apple likes keeping its staff on the innovative cutting edge. Employee loyalty and honesty are important corporate criteria. Which is why Apple regularly creates fake projects for both new as well as senior employees to work on. If any details about the ‘phantom’ project leaks the big wigs at Apple Inc can easily trace the source of the leak, resulting in the employee being fired immediately. Apple has long-established itself as a trailblazer in the technology field and therefore keeping new projects under wraps is taken very, very seriously, as it is a critical factor in the corporation’s innovation strategy. This is why they cannot afford to trust just anyone.
10. Apple Invented the “DogCow”
The Dogcow (seriously), also known as Clarus the Dogcow (yes, we’re still being serious here!), is a bitmapped image of a dog-shaped cow. Or cow-shaped dog – as you prefer. The image was
introduced by Apple in 1983 as part of the Cairo font (the glyph for the letter ‘z’), which was created by Susan Kare. A modified version of the uncanny image was chosen for the Mac OS Page Setup print dialog box, and was famously became the dogcow. Like any good working dog, the dogcow had a specific role – that is, to to show the orientation and color of the paper in Mac OS page setup dialog boxes.
11. Apple Was Founded as a Partnership on April Fool’s Day in 1976
Founded in on April 1st, 1976 by late and iconic Steve Jobs, together with Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple has proved itself to be far from an April Fool’s joke. The company was originally established so as to sell the Apple I personal computer kits which were designed and hand-built by Wozniak himself. The Apple I was sold as a motherboard (with CPU, RAM, and basic textual-video chips), which was less than what is now considered a complete personal computer.
12. The Very First Apple Computer Ever Built Cost $666.66
To those of us who are more practical, factual and mathematically-minded 666 is just a number which sequentially follows 665 and precedes 667. However, in popular culture this is an ominous number which is generally associated with evil and the devil. In fact, 666 is called the “number of the beast” in the Book of Revelation, of the New Testament. It is also the cost of the first Apple computer, derived from adding 33% to the wholesale price of $500.
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