NouLAN Post: 50 facts you didn't know about Steve Jobs and Apple

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26. His wife is an MBA graduate of Stanford and was appointed by President Obama to be a member of the White House Council for Community Solutions due to her active involvement in the non-profit community.

27. Despite his wife's work in the non-profit sector, Jobs was not known for his charitable works. In the early days of Apple, Jobs cut back on all of their philanthropic programs saying they would “wait until [they] are profitable.” Although they never restarted their programs, they may have donated anonymously.

28. He denied paternity on his first child, claiming he was sterile. The mother had to initially raise the kid using welfare checks. The child did turn out to be his daughter who was named Lisa.

29. As an ode to his daughter, he named the "Apple III" computer Lisa after his first born. The mother is Chris-Ann Brennan.

Apple III "Lisa" computer (Source: Wikipedia)

30. The excitement you feel when opening up a new Apple product is not by accident.Jobs was passionate about packaging and a group in the company obsessively open boxes in an attempt to get the right emotional response.

31. Apple had three founders, not two. The company was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.

32. The first Apple logo was drawn by Ronald Wayne who also wrote the original partnership agreement and the Apple I computer manual. Unfortunately, he sold his 10% stake two weeks into the partnership for just $800.

The first Apple logo (Source: Wikipedia)

33. Jobs did not want to offer products in white. However, after designer Jonathan Ive showed him the shade “moon grey”, he was convinced.

Jonathan "Jony" Ive (Source: Flickr/ marcopako)

34. Steve Wozniak ended his full-time employment in 1987. However, he is still an official Apple employee and receives a stipend estimated to be worth $120,000 a year.

35. Jobs purchased Pixar Animation Studios from George Lucas in 1986.

36. Jobs attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 1972.

37. While working at Atari, Jobs was actually put on the night shift because of his hygiene or lack thereof. It is said that he never bathed, and would walk around the office in his bare feet.

38. Jobs never used license plates on the silver Mercedes SL55 AMG he always drove.

39. He would always park in the handicap parking zone.

40. Steve Jobs GPA was 2.65 / 4 which is considered pretty mediocre. Jobs never thought of himself a good student and instead preferred to learn in different ways and didn't enjoy much for the structure of schools.

41. Steve Jobs' signature was inside every original Macintosh. Jobs would get the team to sign a piece of paper which would become the model for a metal plate that would go inside every Macintosh computer.

42. His attention to detail was unlike anyone had ever seen. He frantically called a Google Engineer on a Sunday with an emergency: the gradient on their O was slightly off.

43. Jobs acted as a mentor to Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page after seeing the potential in the company.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google handout)

44. Jobs took on Eric Schmidt, the company’s eventual CEO choice, as one of his board members at Apple.

45. Jobs felt betrayed by his former apprentices from Google after the company entered the phone market with its Android devices.He said “Apple didn’t enter the search business, so why did Google get into the phone business?”

46. Jobs believed Google had stolen some of the features of the iPhone and decided to keep the development of the iPad a secret from Schmidt.

47. Older Apple laptops used to have the logo upside down. It wasn't a mistake, but a user-friendliness decision.

48. Apple I was the company's first computer and was priced at $666.66. Steve Wozniak priced it without realising the devilish connotations, instead pricing the machine one-third over the wholesale price of $500 and preferring one repeating digit as it was easier to type.

49. The Apple Macintosh computer was named after an actual apple, the McIntosh, because this was Jef Raskin's (an Apple employee working on the Macintosh project) favourite variety.

50. After ending a long battle with pancreatic cancer, Jobs' last words were "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow" while looking over the shoulders of his family. Mona Simpson, revealed this in her eulogy which was published in the New York Times.