2. In 1991, An iPhone Would Have Cost $3.56 Million
Think the unveiled iPhone 6 and 6 Plus prices are a bit extortionate? Try living in 1991, where it would have been a lot, lot worse. If you were to break down only memory, processing, and broadband communications power, duplicating the iPhone back in 1991 would have (very roughly) cost: $1.44 million + $620,000 + $1.5 million = $3.56 million, despite the fact that the progression in technological advances are in no way reflective of the hike in technological availability and the drop in price.
1. Apple "Stole" The Name
It's already been established that Apple weren't the first people to register the iPhone trademark at least in Brazil, but they had bigger problems in the wake of the phone's general announcement in 2007 when a counter-claimant emerged to say they'd already nipped the trademark away. Those trademark owners - Cisco had protected the name "iPhone" for a VoIP device that allowed its customers to use Skype without a computer. Somewhat suspiciously, Cisco's iPhone launched 22 days before Apple's iPhone was announced and though the case was settled (at great cost, you'd have to suspect) both parties kept rights to the iPhone name. Interestingly, the original iPhone development team had codenamed the phone "Purple" after the wing of Apple Headquarters they took over for development - named the "Purple Dorm", which famously included a warning on the door: "The first rule of Fight Club is you do not to talk about Fight Club." Which other mind-blowing Apple revelations do you think below on this list? Share your thoughts below in the comments thread.
