Amazing Facts About Apple

Apple grew its sales by $22 billion last year. That growth alone is bigger than most companies you've ever heard of. It's also more revenue than the ENTIRE COMPANY generated four years ago.

Apple generated $65 billion of revenue last year. That's bigger than the GDP of Iraq, Croatia, Libya, Ecuador, and more than 100 other countries

Only 61 countries are bigger than Apple.
Here's the GDP of the 100+ countries in the world that are smaller than Apple, per Wikipedia (2008).

And, yes, that $65 billion of revenue makes Apple officially bigger than Microsoft ($62 billion)

Apple's growth last year IN EUROPE ALONE was $7 billion. That's bigger than the GDP of Liechtenstein

iPhones now account for 39% of Apple's overall revenue. iPhones did not exist 4 years ago.

Apple sold 40 million iPhones last year. That's 110,000 iPhones sold per day.

And 4,583 iPhones per hour.
And 76 iPhones per minute.
And 1.27 iPhones per second!
The iPhone is now sold in 89 countries.

iTunes--Apple's online music, video, and app store--racked up sales of $4 billion last year. That's $1 billion more revenue than the $3 billion generated by one of world's biggest music companies, Warner Music Group

In 2020 We Can Wear Sony Computers On Our Wrist

Sony Nextep: Designed by Hiromi Kirik from Japan

Developed to be worn as a bracelet, this computer concept is constructed out of a flexible OLED touchscreen.

with holographic projector (for screen), & pull-out extra keyboard panels.

Our present need for internet connectivity is so profound that secondary devices like the Nextep Computer are bound to happen. Developed to be worn as a bracelet, this computer concept is constructed out of a flexible OLED touchscreen. Earmarked for the year 2020, features like a holographic projector (for screen), pull-out extra keyboard panels and social networking compatibility, make the concept plausible. Ten years from now is not too far away, so how many of you think we’d be buying such gadgets?

YouTube Facts & Figures

YouTube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim in 2005 who were all employees of Paypal

YouTube was initially funded by bonuses received following the eBay buy-out of PayPal

The founding trio didn't come up with the YouTube concept straight away. Legend has it that YouTube began life as a video dating site dubbed “Tune In Hook Up,” said to be influenced by HotorNot. The three ultimately decided not to go that route

The Latest Facts and Figures on Facebook.

1. More than 800 million active users.

2. More than 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day.

3. Average user has 130 friends.

4. More than 900 million objects that people interact with (pages,  groups, events and community pages).

5. Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events.

Size of Hard Disk

First CEO of Apple, not Steve Jobs

Michael Scott was the first CEO of Apple, not Steve Jobs.

The longest video on YouTube

The longest video on YouTube is 596 hours long.

The average gamer is male

The average gamer is male, 34 years old, has been playing for 12 years and spends $126 a year on games.

Google

Google makes about $700 a second.

SPAM emails

The 62 trillion SPAM emails sent each year produce as many CO2 emissions as 1.6 million cars.

Most destructive computer virus

"Mydoom" is the most destructive computer virus of all time and did an estimated $38 billion in damage.

Bill Gates's home

Bill Gates's home was made with the help of a Macintosh computer. 

The fastest video

The fastest video in the world can record a trillion frames per second, enough to show a beam of light moving between two points.

Borderlands

The video game Borderlands has over 10,000,000 different guns in it that the player can obtain. You will never get the exact same gun twice with one person, even with two, it is very rare

Fake Profile Hunter

There is actually a service page provided by Facebook to expose and eradicate fake profiles. It goes by the name Fake Profile Hunter.

Apple has officially become a bigger company than Microsoft

With a revenue of $65 billion, Apple has officially become a bigger company than Microsoft.

WORLDS MOST VIEWED PHOTO

It is not Mona isa’s Smila, it is a photo by Charles O’Rear and come by default as the windows XP’s desktop background.

And while many people think the picture is digitally edited. it is not. All the vibrant, bright colors are what actually came directly from camera.

294 billion emails

‎294 billion emails are sent every day.

Facebook tried to buy Twitter

In 2008, the social networking site, Facebook tried to buy Twitter for just $500 million

Calculator designed by Charles Babbage

A hand cranking calculator designed by Charles Babbage in 1849 weighed three tons