It should be no news to anyone that Apple is among the most influential companies in the world. From humble beginnings, it has grown to dominate multiple product and service industries. However, beneath the marketing and glamor are secrets that may make one dislike or love the tech giant.
Today, we will go through 10 secrets about Apple you should know.
- Key Takeaways
- Flash Facts
- Their Screen Protectors Are Astronomically Expensive
- Their Chargers are Stupidly Pricy
- The History of Apple's Programming Language Swift
- The True Cost of iPhones
- Criminal Storage Pricing
- The Real Sheep
- Weird Bullies
- Weird Terminologies
- The Failed Social Media Platform
- Marketing Geniuses
- Conclusion
Key Takeaways
- Apple is a massive company worth over 3 trillion dollars.
- It has become one of the most influential technology companies on the planet.
- Here are some facts and cool secrets to know.
Flash Facts
| Name | Apple Inc |
| Year Founded | April 1, 1974, Los Altos, California, United States of America |
| Founders | Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne |
| Subsidiaries | Apple Studios, Beats Electronics, Beddit, Braeburn Capital, Claris, Drive.ai, InVisage Technologies |
| Popular Products and Services | iPhone, Macintosh, Airpods, iCloud, Apple TV+, Vision Pro, iPad, Apple Watch, iPod (discontinued), App Store. |
| Market Capitalization | $3.43 Trillion (July 2024) |
| Headquarters | 1 Apple Park Way, Cupertino, California, United States of America. |
| CEO | Tim Cook |
| Number of Employees | 161,000 (2023) |
| Company’s Website | apple.com |
Their Screen Protectors Are Astronomically Expensive
Whenever someone mentions the word ‘Apple,’ everyone immediately thinks of the word ‘expensive.’ Over the years, the company has crafted an image of glamor and has tended to put its products on the high end of pricing.
However, the company is famous for taking things to the stratosphere when making its products seem luxurious. Among the products that are culprits are its screen protectors.
On its website, a screen protector sells for almost 40 whopping dollars. We understand the company sells Belkin UltraGlass Screen protectors, which are about two times stronger than tempered glass, but what’s crazy is the average tempered glass protector sells for about $5, an 800% difference.
Sometimes, that ‘Apple Tax’ seems like a robbery.
Their Chargers are Stupidly Pricy
Hold on, before saying: ‘But Apple makes their products with the best materials on the planet,’ get this.
On the company’s website, a USB-C to lightning adapter sells for $29, a lightning digital AV adapter sells for $49, a lightning to 3.5mm audio cable sells for $35, an adjustable iPhone stand sells for $20, and a 35-watt dual USB-C power adapter sells for $59.
Unless these devices are in gold, they have no excuse for being ridiculously pricey. Some of the accessories mentioned are not worth 5 dollars, but Apple, being its usual ‘Premium Brand,’ sells them for a hand and leg.
The History of Apple’s Programming Language Swift
Before Apple started making its products with Swift, it worked with programming languages such as Objective-C and C++. However, it needed to create a language that made it easier to spot bugs; this led to the creation of Swift by Chris Lattner, the creator of LLVM, Doug Gregor, John McCall, Ted Kremenek, and Joe Groff in 2010.
The company opened Swift in 2015 and made it open-source.
The True Cost of iPhones
Whenever people praise Apple, they say it is remarkable at creating products with high-quality parts. However, how high quality are the parts that make up an iPhone?
We would be using the iPhone 15 Pros as a reference. On the 15’s launch in September 2023, Apple brought a marketing campaign, stating the iPhone 15 Pros had grade 5 titanium.
Many people fell for awesome terminologies like the solid‑state diffusion process that bonded the titanium metal to aluminum.
When video creators like Jerry Rig Everything from YouTube started making individual tests, they discovered something. For all the company’s titanium talk, there was only about $9-$40 worth of the metal in the phone. Underwhelming right?
Even more surprising is that it costs about $523 and $558 to make the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max when these devices sell for $999 and $1199.
Criminal Storage Pricing
Everyone knows Apple would never make heaven because of its storage pricing. It’s the only company that turns relatively cheap commodities into stratospherically-priced luxury goods.
On its website, increasing storage plans could give one a minute heart attack, and the worst part of the process is that the Cupertino tech giant solders SSDs to its motherboards, which makes it difficult to attempt an upgrade. What a lovely company.
The Real Sheep
The term Apple-Sheep or I-Sheep refers to an individual who buys and defends Apple’s products without thinking about the nuances of their purchase.
For so long, there has been a war between Android and iOS users, and the Androidians always use the term I-Sheep to insult iPhone users. But do you know who the real sheep are?
Well, they are none other than Samsung and the other companies that blatantly follow the Cupertino tech giant’s terrible actions.
In 2016, Apple removed the headphone jack. Immediately, Samsung made adverts mocking the company for its backward decision. However, years later, Samsung did a 360 and removed the headphone jack.
Since then, it has been sheepish follow; the company removes a beloved or a crucial element of their device, Samsung mocks them, and then follows suit.
Sometimes, it seems like these companies love devolving.
Weird Bullies
Everyone hates bullies because they bring pain and suffering to innocent people, and Apple is notorious for being a very strange bully.
It doesn’t go after people for the usual reasons you’d expect. Instead, it is notorious for placing copyright infringement lawsuits against small companies that use anything it deems related to its brand.
For example, it has tried to force a 100-year-old Swedish company to change its logo because it looks like an apple. The funniest part of this suit is that the company sells real fruits.
Who would have thought that a fake Apple company would try to bully an actual fruit company to stop using the products they sell in their logos?
It shouldn’t surprise anyone if the company eventually decides to trademark the word apple itself.
Weird Terminologies
AI stands for Artificial Intelligence, but nope, it’s Apple Intelligence to Tim and his friends at Cupertino; this company is famous for creating the weirdest names for existing technologies.
Examples include calling VR Spatial Computing, Credit Card Payment Apple Pay, and the computer a Mac. We wonder what other technology Apple is scheming to rename.
Tell us what you think they could rename in the comments.
The Failed Social Media Platform
Many massive companies have created products that failed so miserably they had to hire people to sweep all details of their existence from the universe. The most notorious company with these failed products is Google, which makes and destroys concepts at nearly the speed of light.
However, people may not know Apple had its fair share of failed products and concepts.
One was the iTunes Ping, launched on September 1, 2010.
Ping, as it was known, was meant to be a music-oriented social networking platform, kind of like a Facebook competitor. However, it launched with massive problems that hampered its functionality.
Apple eventually shut down the service and scrubbed tales of its existence from its history.
Marketing Geniuses
When people hear Apple, they immediately think of luxury, quality, style, and distinction. But, they don’t realize the company’s success came from its incredible marketing strategies.
Over the years, the company crafted its image on the premise of luxury and quality to the point that it makes people associate anything it sells with these terms.
Its genius marketing strategies created a loyal customer base almost unheard of in any industry.
Conclusion
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