20 Mind-Blowing iPhone Facts You Probably Didn’t Know
15. Someone In Japan Queued For 7 Months For An iPhone 6
How committed are you to getting iPhones the minute they come out? At a push you might be on the same level as the kid who dropped the first iPhone 6 in Perth, Australia immediately after queuing for hours and finally getting his hands on it. You might even be as clumsy as him. But there's no chance you're as committed as the Japanese fan who camped for 7 months for a product that wasn't even announced for at least six of them. And for "committed" you could probably also read "imbalanced."
14. The First Apple Logo Was Awful
There's a very good chance that Apple wouldn't be the behemoth tech monster it is today without some instantly iconic, frustratingly simple design and marketing decisions. Only Apple and their fans would laud a Senior Vice President of Design as the greatest designer in the world after releasing a series of simple squares, and then "innovating" by adding colour. And the trick has run as far as getting Jony Ive a knighthood (with some truly great charity work thrown in to the cause too). From that perspective it's all about marketing: the company whip up a furious squall every time there's a product launch, and they smartly chose a very simple, very iconic Apple icon as their main sales flag. Had they persisted with their first icon - a Ye Olde crest featuring an image of Isaac Newton reading a book under an apple tree - designed by forgotten co-founder Ronald Wayne - then who is to say anyone would have got on board as much.
13. Apple Co-Founder Ronald Wayne Sold His Shares For $800
Today, that 10% share-holding would be worth $35 billion. Hes probably not the happiest man in the world, though he has remained magnanimous since:
I have never had the slightest pangs of regret, because I made the best decision with the information available to me at the time. My contribution was not so great that I felt I had been diddled with in any way.
