50 Daily habits for changing your life

1.       Keep water bowls: Some birds, like a sparrow, don’t migrate in search of water and die due to dehydration. Place water pots in your balcony, compound walls, or terrace to quench the thirst of birds.

2.      Respect customer care spokespersons: Customer care representatives go through a number of hate calls in a single day. End your call by saying ‘Have a nice day.’ A single line will bring a big smile on their face.

3.      Meditate Regularly: Stop giving excuses. Start with 1 minute of daily practice. When you start seeing positive results, you’ll automatically increase the timing.

4.      Laugh loud as you can: If you don’t like doing this exercise alone, join a laughing group. Laughter boosts the immune system by relieving physical tension and stress.

5.      Don’t waste your food: Before wasting your food, think about those people who can’t even get a meal for one time.

6.      Sleep with a dominant thought: Tap the power of the subconscious mind by repeating your main goal of life. Sleep with this big idea in your mind.

7.      Eat mindfully: Chew properly to have a proper digestion. Don’t eat fast. Enjoy the flavor of the food.

8.     Visualize: When everything looks dark and dull in reality, sketch a positive scenario. Visualize your end goals. It’ll give you an instant relief.

9.      Have a big heart: In sharing, giver receives more than the receiver because some things in life can’t be measured in physical terms only.

10.  Be open to learn from anyone: Set your ego aside while learning. Your subordinate, kids and any other person whom you think are a waste of time can teach you valuable lessons of life.

11.   Drink water with an empty stomach: Have 1-4 glasses of water in the before having anything in the morning. It cleanse your stomach.

12.  Listen more. Speak less: Do you know why we have two ears to listen and one mouth to speak? To absorb more and talk less. Don’t interrupt. Allow others to speak and then present your viewpoint.

13.  Think before you speak: You can’t get your words back. Pause and ponder before saying ill words about someone or sending a nasty mail. Your outburst can become a source of lifetime misery.

14.  Count backward when you are angry: Start counting from ten to one when you are about to explode.

15.   Be grateful for everything you have: We take things for granted because we have everything in front of us. Ask those who can’t even fulfill their basic needs.

16.  Don’t watch news channel before sleeping: To have a sound sleep, disconnect yourself from the news world.

17.   Start small: Move ahead in life with small steps. Track your progress on a daily basis. It doesn’t matter at what rate you are growing, what matters more is your persistent efforts.

18.  Accept your mistake: You won’t become small by accepting your fault. Don’t just accept it. Act on it to not repeat the same mistake in future.

19.  Make daily goals: Start with the end goals for the day in mind. Make daily targets help yourself not to deviate from the track.

20. Strategize your next day plans in advance: Plan your next day before going to sleep. Analyze the output of your daily goals and work out your next day plans accordingly.

21.  Say ‘thank you’ to strangers who help you: If someone is taking out time to help you, don’t act mean. When someone gives the direction for the lost route, for example, thank the person with a big smile on your face.

22. Read a book before sleeping: Instead of watching TV shows, take out 30 minutes after your last meal. Books open up your mind because you get insights from the great people.

23. Live in the present: What has happened has happened. What will happen will happen. Shape your past and future by living your present to the fullest.

24. Don’t offer money to beggars: Sadly, especially in India, we hear the news when police bursts begging rackets and rescues innocent children. The mafias, racket handlers, takes the money. Instead of offering money, provide food to beggars.

25.  Be the first to start the conversation: You won’t become small when you initiate the conversation.

26. Have the courage to say ‘No’: Raise your voice when your ideas don’t align with others. You are not a puppet. Have your opinion.

27.  Wake up early: Make the most of your morning time. As the day progresses, energy depletes in making decisions, meeting different people, and battling traffic.

28. Bow to the rising sun: Cherish the beauty of the rising sun. Being a nature lover, I bow down in front of the sun because it offers sunlight without expecting nothing in return.

29. Jog: Apart from strengthening muscles, jogging boost your mood and reduce stress. Increase the intensity by keeping a check on your resistance levels.

30. Interact with like-minded individuals: Fuel your passion by spending time with people of your taste. Stay away from those who hampers your growth.

31.  Do things without any expectation: Help elderly woman to cross the road. Assist a visually challenged person in reaching the destination. If you are sharing a cab, tell the stranger that you’ll pay for the ride.

32. Don’t drink water between meals: If you want to have water, have it at least half an hour before and after the meal.

33. Make your bed: After waking up, arrange the covers to make your bed neat and clean. It helps in making your more organized for the whole day. It may sound simple daily routine, but give it a try.

34. Wash your mouth after completing the meal: Don’t be lazy. It prevents bacteria from attacking the tooth enamel.

35.  Focus on your breathing for a proper sleep: Close your eyes and concentrate on your breathing pattern.

36. Don’t come to conclusion instantly: Never judge the person’s characteristics on the first look. A person, who looks cunning, may turn out a friendly guy or an individual who looks friendly, may plot against you.

37.  Don’t find faults in others: When you point a finger at others, three fingers point towards you. Instead of finding fault in others, mind your own business.

38. Give some space between meals and sleep: Sleeping immediately after a meal makes it difficult to digest the food. Heartburn, a burning sensation that crops up from stomach to chest and even up to your throat, disturbs your sleep.

39. Emote your feelings: Say ‘I love you’ to your loved ones and comfort them with a warm hug.

40. Talk with your servants respectfully: The way the person interacts with their workers reflect their personality. Respect them because no one is doing a favor on anyone.

41.  Give space: Allow people to live life on their terms. Let them unleash their creative side. Never be the reason behind someone’s stunted growth.

42. See the good in everyone: No one is perfect, but everyone has something good about them. Target those good areas to evolve.

43. Keep a journal: Note down your daily feelings. You don’t have to follow any guidelines. Write anything which comes in your mind. Go with the flow.

44. Maintain your calm: It is easy to loose cool during a heated argument or waiting at a red light. Sometimes, things are not in your control.

45.  Don’t get attached: People get confused between love and attachment. Attachment gives birth to dependency Love is complete in itself. It doesn’t scream desperation.

46. Stretch out between work: You are a human, not a machine. Do a simple stretch out. Give rest to eyes by seeing away from your screen.

47.  Adopt a deathbed mentality: Start your day by thinking it to be your last day. It brings in It helps in focusing on all the important things that you have been putting off for a long time. Time is now or never.

48. Give and take respect: Give respect, but don’t allow anyone to use you for selfish motives. Maintain your dignity.

49. Be natural: What’s the point of fooling people when you are actually making a fool of yourself? If people doesn’t accept your natural side, let it be. It is their loss, not yours.

50. Dance like a madman: Lock your door. Turn on the music, if you want. Forget about the steps. Relax your body without caring about anyone.

Facts of Albert Einstein

Considered as 20^th Century’s most influential physicist, Albert Einstein is one of the most popular scientists of modern science. He was the greatest genius of our times whose contributions to physics have been matched only by a handful of others in history. Even so, nowadays Einstein is associated just with one formula: E = mc2. It has been called the most famous formula in the world, and even people who have no idea what mass-energy equivalence is still know it. However, there was a lot more to the man than that. 

1. Einstein was born in Germany on March 14, 1879. The place of birth was Ulm, Württemberg. He died on April 18, 1955 at the age of 76 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.

2. At birth his head had a weird shape. It is being said that the back of his head was very large but within the first few weeks, the shape gradually changed to normal.

3. He was born in a middle-class Jew family and had a sister named Maja who was two years younger to him. 

4. Sources say that Einstein was plagued by speech difficulty and could not speak until he turned 4 years old.

5. Albert Einstein completed his elementary education from Munich’s Luitpold Gymnasium.

6. The first scientific paper he wrote was at the age of 16. The paper was titled “The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields.” 

7. He never failed math. This is a popular “fact” promoted on the internet, maybe in an attempt to relate to genius. However, it is simply not true. Overall, Einstein was an average student, but math was one area where he excelled, unsurprisingly. 

8. Einstein encouraged the development of the nuclear bomb. His involvement is often misinterpreted, with some claiming that he helped create the atom bomb. In reality, what he did was write a letter to President FDR encouraging him to begin work on such a weapon, which led to the Manhattan Project. Although a dedicated pacifist and, later, an anti-nuke spokesman, Einstein was convinced that America needed the atomic bomb before the Nazis.

9. He was a great musician. If the whole “genius” thing didn’t work out, Einstein could have become a violinist. His mother played piano so he had the love of music instilled in him—via violin lessons—at the young age of five. 

10. He could have been the President of Israel. When Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann, died, Einstein was offered the position, but he declined.

11.  He married his cousin. After Einstein divorced his first wife, Mileva Maric, he married his cousin, Elsa Lowenthal. He was, actually, quite a bad husband to his first wife in their later years. He had affairs he never tried to hide, he moved the entire family to Berlin without discussion, and treated her more as a servant than a wife.

12. He won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics. This alone isn’t particularly surprising. What is surprising is the fact that he didn’t receive it for the general or special theory of relativity, but rather for the photoelectric effect. 

13. He loved to sail. Ever since university, Einstein sailed as a hobby. But by his own admission, he never made a particularly good sailor. In fact, he didn’t even know how to swim. 

14. He really didn’t like socks, and usually didn’t wear them. In fact, in a letter to Elsa, he bragged about getting away “without wearing socks” while at Oxford.

15. He had an illegitimate daughter. This wasn’t known until the 1980s, but according to correspondence between Albert and Mileva it was determined that the two had a daughter in 1902 called Lieserl. At one point, all mention of her in letters stopped so her fate is unknown. 

16. His brain was stolen. After Einstein died, the pathologist who did his autopsy took his brain without permission. He eventually got the permission necessary from Einstein’s son, but he was fired from Princeton when he refused to turn the brain over. He kept it for over forty years before finally returning it in 1998. 

17. In 1894, his father’s electrical company failed to get an important contract and the family was forced to move to Italy’s Milan. Einstein was however, left at Munich’s boarding house to complete his studies. Einstein was very unhappy about the idea of joining compulsory military duty when he reached the appropriate age and hence, he decided to join his parents in Milan. He left school without notice by using a doctor’s note and went to Italy. 

18. Einstein then joined Eidgenössische Polytechnische Schule (Swiss Federal Polytechnic School) based in Zürich, Switzerland. His exceptional talent in mathematics and physics grabbed attention but he actually failed in other subjects of the entrance exam. School authorities decided to accept him provided he completed his formal schooling. So, he joined Jost Winteler’s special high school and graduated at the age of 17.  

19. At the age of 17 Einstein also renounced his German citizenship to avoid military service. During his schooling with Jost Winteler, he became very close to the family and fell in love with Marie – Winteler’s daughter. He also enrolled in Zürich’s school after renouncing his German citizenship. 

20. In 1902, Einstein’s financial conditions were awful. He did not have a job and his father’s company went bankrupt. That is when Einstein started tutoring children. 

21. Einstein eventually grabbed a Swiss clerical job after a recommendation from Marcel Grossman’s father. Marcel Grossman was Einstein’s lifelong friend. 

22. Einstein’s father died shortly after that because of illness but before death, approved of Einstein’s and Maric’s wedding. The couple got married in 1903. The next year they had a son named Hans Albert and in 1910 they had a second son named Eduard. 

23. During his study at the polytechnic school, Einstein went through the electromagnetic theories that were developed by James Maxwell – a Scottish Physicist. 

24. Einstein, through the studies of those theories, had found out that speed of light was constant and this fact was not known to Maxwell. Einstein’s discovery was a direct violation of Newton’s laws of motion. This led Einstein to develop the relativity principle. 

25. The year 1905 is known as the ‘Miracle Year’ of Einstein. That year he submitted his doctorate paper and 4 of his papers were published in one of the best know physic journals – the Annalen der Physik. The 4 papers that were published were Equivalence of Matter and Energy, Special Relativity, Brownian Motion and Photoelectric Effect. These papers eventually altered the very fabric of modern physics. 

26. It was in his paper on ‘Equivalence of Matter and Energy’ where Einstein gave his famous formula E=mc². 

27. After gaining popularity, Einstein had to frequently travel and this started causing troubles in his family because of poor finances.

28. Eventually, Einstein concluded that the marriage was over and got into a relation with his cousin named Elsa Löwenthal and later married her. 

29. Mileva Maric and Albert Einstein eventually divorced in 1919 on an agreement that if ever Einstein wins a noble prize, Maric will receive the entire money that he wins. 

30. Einstein had actually set some weird rules for his first wife Maric. The rules included – ‘she had to stop talking when Einstein asked her to’, ‘she had to serve him three meals a day’ and ‘she could not expect any physical intimacy from him’.

31. In many letters that Einstein wrote to Elsa, he actually acknowledged the fact that he was involved in several extramarital affairs. 

32. His first wife Maric actually received the money he won as a part of Noble Prize.

33. Einstein’s eyeballs are preserved in a safe box in New York City.

Why Can't We Breathe Underwater??

It is a known fact that water is made up of oxygen and hydrogen, however, when we go underwater, why do we require an oxygen cylinder and why are we unable to breathe under water? In contrast, fishes can live only in water although they also breathe oxygen for their survival. Have you thought about this mystery?

Why can't we breathe underwater?

If hydrogen and oxygen gas come together, they form H2O. The reason we cannot breathe liquid water is because the oxygen that is used to make the water is bound to two hydrogen atoms, and we cannot breathe the resulting liquid. The oxygen is useless to our lungs in this form.

Fish "breathe" oxygen dissolved in water with the help of their gills. It turns out that extracting the oxygen is not very easy as air has approximately 20 times more oxygen in it than the same volume of water. Also, water is a lot heavier and thicker than air and hence it takes a lot more work to move it around. The main reason why gills work for fish is the fact that fishes are cold-blooded and this reduces their oxygen demands. Warm-blooded animals like whales breathe air just like we humans do as it is hard to extract enough oxygen using their gills.

Humans cannot breathe underwater because our lungs do not have enough surface area to absorb enough oxygen from water, and the lining in our lungs is adapted to handle air rather than water. However, there have been experiments with humans breathing other liquids like fluorocarbons. Fluorocarbons can dissolve enough oxygen and our lungs can draw the oxygen out.

The most important thing to understand here is how the same chemicals react in different ways with one another. For instance, if you combine carbon, hydrogen and oxygen together, one reaction can give you glucose, which is C6H12O6 and the same chemicals in another reaction can give you vinegar, which is C2H4O2.

APPLE Think Different........................

Technical innovation paired with minimalistic designs and creative advertisements, as well as the leadership of Steve Jobs, have made Apple one of the most valuable brands in the world. The company’s success translates into strong brand loyalty, as well as into an unparalleled revenue growth.

The company was first founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in 1976 in the garage of Jobs’ parents. Their first product, known as the Apple I, consisted of an assembled circuit board without many of the present-day features of a computer, such as display, keyboard or mouse. The company started to slowly grow with the development of Apple II, Apple III, Apple Lisa and the first Macintosh, launched in 1984. 

After a rather uneventful period, the company resurfaced in the late 1990's with a number of strategic and technological changes: in 1997, Apple introduced the Apple Online Store, followed by the iMac and the video editing program Final Cut Pro in 1998. The iPod was launched in 2001, which marked the company’s first venture away from computers and into other segments of consumer electronics. With several hundred million units sold, the iPod was a tremendous success. Its popularity however started to decline in 2008, as advanced music functions of smart phones began to substitute MP3 players. Apple’s digital media store, the iTunes Store, was launched in 2003 and became one of the most popular online music stores in the world, generating several billion U.S. dollars in revenue per quarter. 

In 2007, the release of the iPhone marked a revolution for the global smartphone market, due to the introduction of the first touch screen interface. In the United States especially, the iPhone has been a key product for the company, generating millions of unit sales and high levels of revenue. The iPhone, already in its eighth generation in 2014, is regularly contributing more than 50 percent to the company’s total revenue. In total, Apple has sold more than 500 million iPhone's from 2007 to 2014 worldwide. 

In January 2010, the iPad was unveiled, marking yet another milestone in the industry. The device went on to sell more than 3 million units in the first 3 months, thus setting a new benchmark in the industry. With the launch of its Apple Watch in early 2015, Apple entered the growing wearable's market, competing with companies such as Samsung, Pebble and Fit-bit. 

As of 2013, Apple’s market capitalization reached 450 billion U.S. dollars, considerably higher than that of competitors such as Microsoft, IBM and Google, as well as almost ten times more than its own capitalization in 2006. The company’s market cap reached a record 700 billion U.S. dollars in 2014 and is expected to exceed one trillion U.S. dollars in the future. 

KEY DATES

1976:With $1,300, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer, Inc.

1980:Apple converts to public ownership.

1982:Apple becomes the first personal computer company to reach $1 billion in annual sales.

1985:John Sculley assumes the helm after a management shakeup that causes the departure of Jobs and several other Apple executives.

1991: PowerBook line of notebook computers is released.

1994:Power Macintosh line is released.

1996:Acquisition of NeXT brings Steve Jobs back to Apple as a special adviser.

1997:Steve Jobs is named interim chief executive officer.

1998:The all-in-one iMac is released.

2000:Jobs, firmly in command as CEO, oversees a leaner, more tightly focused Apple.

2001:The iPod is released; Apple opens its first retail store in Virginia.

2003:Apple opens its first store in Japan.

2005:The release of a video iPod, the fifth generation of the device, pushes total iPod unit sales to 30 million.

Facts of Apple Inc. and Mac

1. Apple was founded as a partnership on April Fool’s Day 1976 by three people who originally worked at Atari: Steven Gary Wozniak (1950- ), Steven Paul Jobs (1955-2011), and Ronald Gerald Wayne (1934- ). Apple was incorporated on January 3, 1977, without Wayne, who sold his shares back for $800. Wayne wrote the Apple I manual, drafted the partnership agreement, and drew the first Apple logo.
   
2. To raise capital for their new company, Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen van and Steve Wozniak sold his Hewlett-Packard scientific calculator for $500.
3. Steve Wozniak credits entrepreneur and investor Mike Markkula (1942- ) for the success of Apple. He provided initial funding and managerial support, and he served as chairman for Apple from 1985 to 1997. He wrote several early software programs for the Apple II and freely distributed them under the alias “Johnny Appleseed.”
4. This one is pretty evident. Apple Inc has more money than the US Government. 
5. For the first 30 years, Apple was called Apple Computer, Inc. On January 9, 2007, it removed the word “Computer” to reflect its expanding electronic market.
6. Steve Jobs set the list price of the original 4K Apple 1 at $666.66 ($2,572 in 2011 dollars), doubling the cost of manufacturing. Fundamentalist Christians were quick to complain that 666 was the “mark of the beast.”
7. For all the smokers with Macs, smoking near an Apple computer can void its warranty. 
8. Apple’s first computer, the Apple 1 (1976), did not include a keyboard, monitor, or case and was basically an assembled circuit board. The Apple II was introduced on April 16, 1977, and has been widely credited with popularizing the home computer. 
9. In 2010, Apple surpassed Microsoft to become the most valuable technology company in the world. In 2010, Apple was valued at $222.12 billion, while Microsoft was valued at $219.18 billion. In August 2011, Apple pushed past Exxon as the most valuable public company in the world. 
   
10. In July 2011, the U.S. Treasury had an operating cash balance of $73.7 billion. Apple, however, reported its reserves higher than the government, at $76.4 billion. While the U.S. is spending around $200 billion more than it collects in revenue every month, Apple, on the other hand, is making money.
11. Ronald Wayne, one of the original founders of Apple Inc., designed the first logo for Apple, which was a pen-and-ink drawing of Sir Isaac Newton leaning against an apple tree with a portion of a William Wordsworth poem: “Newton . . . . A mind forever voyaging though strange seas of thought . . . alone.” Jobs thought the logo was “too cerebral” and a single apple was chosen with a bite (byte), partly to prevent it from looking like a cherry tomato.
12. Jean-Louise Gassee (1944- ), former executive of Apple Computer, suggested that the Apple logo is a symbol of lust and knowledge, “bitten into, all crossed with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn’t dream of a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope, and anarchy.” In 1997, Jobs replaced the rainbow color of the apple logo with solid white. 
    
13. Apple generated approximately $625 of revenue from each of the 40 million iPhones it sold in 2009. It generated $164 of revenue for every iPod sold, $1,279 for every Mac, and $665 for every iPad.
14. Most of Apple’s annual revenue (approximately $65 billion) is generated from the products Apple has invented during the last 10 years, such as iPods, iPhones, iPads, and iTunes. Almost half of its annual revenue, or $30 billion, comes from products invented in the past 4 years.
15. At the time, Apple’s initial public offering on December 12, 1980, was the largest IPO since the Ford Motor Company went public in 1956. It sold out in minutes. Apples shares rose 32%, making 40 Apple employees instant millionaires. 
16. iTunes, Apple’s online music, video, and app store, generated sales of $4 billion in 2010. That’s over $1 billion more than one of the world’s largest music companies, Warner Music Group.
17. In 1983, Apple entered the Fortune 500 at #411 after being in existence for only five years, making it the fastest growing company in history. 
18. Apple has more than 92,000 employees. 
19. Apple stores each sell an average of $93,150 worth of products every day, which is equivalent to $3,900 an hour or $65 a minute every day of the year. 
20. In 2009, Apple sold 40 million iPhones. That’s 4,583 sold per hour, 76 per minute, or 1.27 per second. The iPhone is sold in 89 countries. 
21. It's called Apple because Steve Jobs loved the fruit 
22. In 1989, the Macintosh Portable became Apple’s first “portable” Mac computer.
23. In 1984, the Macintosh was introduced by the famous “1984” commercial, which showed a young, female rebel (Apple) striking a blow against corporate “Big Brother” (presumably IBM).
24. Today, twice as much revenue is generated from Apple’s hand-held devices and music than from Apple computers.
    
25. In 2010, a British newspaper reported sweatshop conditions at an iPod factory in China. Apple also admitted to using child labor. 
26. Environmentalists have criticized Apple for not providing a full-fledged computer recycling program, unlike its competitors. 
27. The time on iPhone photos is the time it was announced 
28. Apple Corp, the Beatles’ record company, has repeatedly taken Apple Computer to court over trademark infringement. The first time was in 1978, shortly after Apple Computer was founded in 1976. The parties settled in 1981, on the contingency that Apple Computer would never enter the music industry. However, Apple Corp again took the computer giant to court in 1989 when Apple Computer introduced computers capable of music playback, and then again in 2003 after the iPod and iTunes hit the market in 2001 and 2002, respectively. The companies ultimately reached an agreement concerning the use of the word “Apple” in 2007.
29. iPhone's account for 39% of Apple’s overall revenue.
30. Steve Wozniak (a.k.a. “Woz” and the “Wizard of Woz”) designed and built the first Apple computers. Even though he left Apple in 1985 to start his own company, he is still on the payroll of Apple and sometimes represents the company at events. According to Wozniak, “Steve [Jobs] didn’t know very much about electronics.”
    
31. On November 22, 1985, Apple signed an agreement to let Bill Gates use Mac GUI (graphical user interface) technology in Windows 1.0 if Microsoft continued to produce products for the Mac. However, when Windows 2 showed features of Mac technology, Apple sued. The lawsuit was decided in Microsoft's favor on August 24, 1993.
32. Climate Counts, a nonprofit organization that ranks companies for climate-conscious consumers, ranked Apple last among electronic firms. Greenpeace criticized Apple in 2008 for failing to phase out hazardous material such as chlorinated plastic polyvinal chloride and brominated flame retardant in the iPhone. 
33. Apple makes their employees work on fake projects until they can be trusted. This may sound bizarre but the people at Apple Inc. take their product privacy very very seriously. 
34. In 2010, Apple annual sales were $65.23 billion. If Apple were a country, it would rank as the world’s 68th biggest country. 
35. In March 2010, Forbes reported that Apple was the most admired company in the world. Hewlett-Packard and EMC round out the top three. 
36. Apple has a team of carpenters ready to build walls around employee's desks 
37. There were 250 million iPods, 43 million iPhones, and 32 million iPod touches (a.k.a. iTouches) sold as of March 22, 2010. 
38. Apple’s largest retail store is on Regent Street in London, boasting 25,000 square feet. The smallest Apple store, at just 540 square feet, is at Santa Rosa Plaza in California. 
39. Getting a job at an Apple store can be extremely selective. In 2009, Apple reported that 10,000 people submitted applications at its new store on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Of those, just 200 got jobs, for a 2% acceptance rate.
40. While Microsoft spent $8.7 billion on research development in 2009, Apple spent only $1.7 billion. Additionally, Apple spent $5.5 billion on sales, marketing, and general and administrative expenses in 2009, while Microsoft spent $17 billion. Despite spending more money, however, Microsoft had smaller sales and vastly slower growth. 
41. In December 1982, Apple became the first personal computer company to reach $1 billion in annual sales. To celebrate, it threw a Billion Dollar Party for employees. 
42. Londoner Jonathan Ive (1967- ) designed the iMac, the iPod, and the iPhone. In 1999, he was named as one of the world’s top 100 inventors under the age of 35.
43. The first graphical image ever displayed on a Mac prototype was a picture of Scrooge McDuck playing the fiddle while sitting on some money bags. 
44. In the movie Courage Under Fire, Denzel Washington’s character uses a PowerBook 5300 several times. The movie takes place right after the Gulf War in 1991, but the PowerBook 5300 wasn’t released until August 1995. The only Mac “laptop” available in 1991 was the Mac Portable, a 15.8 pound giant which would have been difficult to carry around, especially in a war zone. 
45. On August 28, 1991, the first true email message from space was sent by the crew of the space shuttle STS-43 Atlantis using a Mac Portable and specifically configured AppleLink software.
46. Apple’s name recognition was so low in Japan in the early 1980s that refrigerated trucks were used to deliver shipments of Apple computers because workers thought that the boxes contained perishable fruit.
47. Due to legal concerns and Carl Sagan’s protest, the code name for the Power Macintosh 7100/66 was changed from “Carl Sagan” to “BHA” in 1993. However, when Sagan learned that BHA supposedly stood for Butt-Head Astronomer, he asked Apple’s engineers to change the name again. They settled on LAW, which stands for Lawyers Are Wimps. 
48. In 1994, singer/songwriter Bob Dylan sued Apple for trademark infringement when Apple decided to name a product “Dylan,” which stood for “dynamic language.” Ironically, critics have noted that Bob Dylan was actually born as Robert Zimmerman and adopted the first name of the early 20th-century Welsh poet Dylan Thomas in August 1962. 
49. In 1985, Jobs lost a power struggle with the board of directors at Apple and left the company. He founded a computer platform, NeXT, that same year. In 1996, a floundering Apple bought NeXT and brought Jobs back to the company. Much of the OS X operating system is built on NeXT technology. Additionally, once Jobs returned, he pulled Apple from the brink of bankruptcy, tripled annual sales, doubled Mac’s market share, and increased Apple’s stock 1,300%.
50. After Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple in 1985, Apple Computers struggled to survive falling market shares and inefficient leadership. In fact, Apple was named the worst run company of 1996 by investment giant CalPERS (California Public Employees’ Retirement System). 
51. Bill Gates is one of the reasons Apple exists today! 
52. Though the concept of a GUI (graphical user interface) was initially developed by Xerox, Apple was the first company to mass market GUI-based computers. While Apple’s first GUI-based computer, Lisa, was a commercial failure, the Macintosh released a year later was a success. Before GUI, computers were controlled by complicated key combinations and typed commands.
53. In early 1987, Ross Perot invested $20 million in NeXT. However, he resigned from the company’s board of directors and sold most of his shares before Apple bought NeXT and Steve Jobs returned to his company. 
54. The name “Macintosh” is based on the name of an apple cultivar, the McIntosh. 
55. The most expensive Apple store is on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and is estimated to have cost $10 million to build. It is also said to be one of the most photographed retail landmarks in the world. 
56. Apple Inc.’s founder, Steve Jobs, is a college dropout. He dropped out of Reed College in 1972, after attending only one semester. 
57. Techeblog reports that the Macbook Air Platinum is the most expensive Mac laptop ever, at a whopping $486,616. Its unibody enclosure is made from solid platinum. The MacBook Air Platinum is limited to just 5 units. 
58. In Sex and the City 2, Carrie Bradshaw continues to use her beloved Mac computer, but the movie also prominently features Hewlett-Packard PCs, powered by Windows. Coincidentally, Apple never pays for product placement, though it will donate products to a set. 
59. In early 2015, Apple became the first ever $700 billion company. More recently, Apple overtook Google as the most valuable brand in the world. 
60. You might think of them only as fierce competitors, but Apple and Samsung have a different sort of relationship. Samsung actually manufactures the retina display on the Apple iPad and a portion of the memory chips used in the iPhone 6 (though Apple has cut back on its reliance on Samsung).
61. In June 2014, a seven-for-one stock split took the trading price of Apple from approximately $645 to $94. 
62. One of the original Apple computers sold for more than $387,000 in 2013. 
63. Apple’s initial public offering was made on December 12, 1980. The company sold 4.6 million shares at a cost of $22 per share. 
64. Apple used the capital from its initial public offering for the development of the Macintosh and Lisa. 
65. The iPhone was almost named something else, with the company considering names such as Mobi, Telepod, and Tripod. The name “iPad” was also considered for its smartphone. 
66. China is currently Apple’s second biggest market, trailing only the United States. Revenue in China grew to nearly $17 billion in the second quarter of 2015. 
67. Despite the fact that he was the founder of the company, Steve Jobs was fired from Apple in 1985 at the tender age of 30. 
68. Apple cracked into the Fortune 500 in 1983, a spot it has held onto ever since. 
69. Apple is pretty secretive. The company is said to have created fake projects for employees and management to work on. If the news leaks, you can hit the road. They’ll know exactly who spilled the beans. 
70. It cost $666.66 to build the first Apple computer. Despite the many conspiracy theories, it has not been proven that anybody at Apple worshipped the devil during production. 
71. Fake Apple retail stores have been opened (and shut down) in many parts of China. In Kunming, for example, these stores appeared so authentic that even employees were duped. 
72. Apple CEO Tim Cook earned $9 million in 2014. A large number, for sure, but not when you consider that Apple is the most valuable company in the world. 
73. The original Apple logo was designed by co-founder Ronald Wayne, who worked at Atari along with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, and is nothing like the one the company uses today. 
74. At one point, Apple did not have the option to market its iPhone in Brazil, as another company owned the trademark. IGM Electronics, a telecommunications company, was the thorn in Apple’s side until the iPhone maker won a trademark case in the country. 
75. Ronald Wayne, the forgotten Apple co-founder, sold his shares in the company in 1977 for $800. While he only owned 10 percent of the company at the time, in today’s world this would be worth tens of billions of dollars. He has noted that he does not regret this decision. 
76. Apple finished 2014 with $178 billion in marketable securities and cash. Even so, CEO Tim Cook is persistent in saying the company doesn’t want a cash hoard. 60. The revenue generated by Apple is more than the GDP of many countries, including Ecuador, Libya, and Iraq (among hundreds of others). 
77. Apple’s profit for every iPhone 6 Plus sold is approximately $85 more than its smaller counterpart. 
78. In 2005, there were 116 Apple retail stores scattered throughout the world, with the largest number in the United States. This total reached 317 by 2010 and 437 by 2014. The number of Apple stores has increased each year since 2005. Want to go work at one? Good luck–you have a better chance of getting into Harvard . 
79. Apple headquarters' employees earn an average of US$125,000 a year. 
80. Apple's co-founder sold all his shares for $800.Today, they would have been worth US$35 billion. 
81. Apple earn’s US$300,000 per minute 
82. Apple sold 340,000 iphone's per day in 2012 
83. Everything you say to Siri is sent to Apple, analyzed and stored 
84. Apple’s Iphone is almost twice more expensive in Brazil than in the U.S