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If you’re into interesting facts, few companies have as secretive, cool and intriguing histories as Apple and its leader, Steve Jobs. Anything missing? Leave a comment. Apple didn't have two founders. It had three. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive share the same middle name: “Paul.” Before working at Apple, Jonathan Ive worked for a company called Tangerine. The original Apple 1 computer sold for $666.66. The Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan (the cube) is said to be one of the most photographed landmarks in the world. Nine U.S. states don’t have Apple stores: Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming. Before co-founding Apple, Steve Jobs worked for Atari . Jonathan Ive has worn the same shirt in every Apple product intro video since 2000. Steve Jobs is a Buddhist. Steve Jobs’ birth father was a Syrian Muslim, Abdulfattah Jandali. Steve Jobs’ biologica...

A 38-year-old Apple-1 personal computer – still in working condition despite its age – fetched a whopping $905,000 (P40,525,900) in an auction. The Ford Foundation bought the computer made by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and plans to display it in the Henry Ford Museum   in  Dearborn, Michigan , auction house Bonhams reported. "In addition to the beautifully intact motherboard, this Apple-1 comes with a vintage keyboard with pre-7400 series military spec chips, a vintage Sanyo monitor, a custom vintage power supply in wooden box, as well as two vintage tape-decks,"  Bonhams said Bundled in as well were the Cincinnati AppleSiders' first newsletter "Poke-Apple" from February 1979 and a video of Steve Wozniak's keynote at the 1980 "Applevention." At the time the Apple I was made, software was stored in cassette tapes. The auctioned Apple-1 was one of 50 hand-built for the ByteShop by Wozniak at the late co-founder Steve Jobs' garage - ...