Fact or Fiction: Apple

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Fact or Fiction: Apple
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Apple Inc. is no mere computer company, thank you. It's a way of life. If you consider yourself a true "Apple person," take this quiz and find out how much you really know.
Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak met at summer camp when they were teenagers.
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Jobs and Wozniak met at San Francisco's Homebrew Computer Club in the mid 1970s.

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A guy named Ronald Wayne founded Apple with Jobs and Wozniak but sold them his share for $800.
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Wayne, we assume, is still kicking himself after getting only $800 for his share of Apple.

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The first Apple I computer cost $666.66.
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Yep, the original Apple I sold for the devilishly low price of $666.66.

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A computer called the "Lisa" was supposed to be Apple's flagship model, but it failed and was replaced by the Macintosh.
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The Apple Lisa made its debut in 1983 but soon tanked, in part because of its high price.

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Apple's famous "1984" Super Bowl ad was directed by Steven Spielberg.
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Ridley Scott directed the legendary commercial, which introduced the Macintosh.

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One day in 1991, half of Apple's employees quit because the atmosphere had become "too corporate."
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Not true at all. We just made it up.

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The first Apple store opened on Nov. 10, 1997, in San Francisco.
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The first online Apple store opened on that date, but the first brick-and-mortar Apple store opened on May 19, 2001, in Tysons Corner, Va.

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The original Apple logo featured Sir Isaac Newton under an apple tree.
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True. But it wasn't long before the now-famous apple logo took its place.

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In June 2009, Apple slashed the price of the entry-level iPhone by half.
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True. The price of a new iPhone dropped to a mere $99.

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At Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference in June 2009, ill CEO Steve Jobs made a long-rumored appearance -- in a tuxedo! -- and delivered the keynote speech.
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Nope, sorry. Jobs remained on medical leave, and Phil Schiller, senior vice president for product marketing, did the keynote.

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Apple still makes most of its money from computers.
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Twice as much Apple revenue comes from hand-held devices and music as comes from computer sales.

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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak once made the statement that ā€œSteve (Jobs) didnā€™t know very much about electronics.ā€
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Design and marketing were Jobs' strengths, not electronics.

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In 1996, Apple was named the countryā€™s worst-run company.
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The mid-1990s were a low point for Apple.

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Apple's early success was based on its invention of graphical user interface (GUI) technology.
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The graphical user interface, which replaced the typed-in commands of early computers, helped popularize Apple's Macintosh computers. But the GUI was invented by Xerox Corp. in the early 1970s.

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The first Macintosh, released in 1984, had a whopping 128 kilobytes of system memory
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Apple called the computer the Macintosh 128 because of its 128 KB of memory. It had a 9-inch (22.9-centimeter) screen.

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Apple introduced a wireless gateway in 1999 that it called the AirHub.
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Apple's gateway can connect a computer to the Internet or to peripherals like printers. But it's called the AirPort.

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Appleā€™s OSX operating system is based on UNIX.
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OSX is based on UNIX, which was developed by AT&T in the early 1970s and made available to software developers.

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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak would like to become a citizen of Australia.
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Woz wants to be an Aussie in part because of the country's plan to make high-speed broadband Internet available to all.

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The early digital camera that Apple sold in 1994 could take 12 low-resolution pictures.
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The QuickTake camera, which cost $750, only held eight 640x480-pixel pictures. It was discontinued in 1997.

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Apple introduced the first mobile phone with video calling in 2010.
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Both NEC and Motorola offered video calling as early as 2003.

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