15 things you didn’t know about the trillion dollar company's most successful product

It was a landmark day yesterday as Apple became the first US company to hit the magical 13-figure market cap. In other words, it became the first company to have a value of $1 trillion. While Apple has been at the forefront of many technical innovations over the years, it’s most well-known, most successful and ‘historical’ product is the iPhone. Here we list out X things that you didn’t know about the Apple iPhone

Incidentally, it was Cisco which had a trademark registered under the name iPhone. Both Apple and Cisco settled the dispute which allowed them to use the name iPhone.

The first prank call made by the iPhone was by none other than Steve Jobs. In 2007, Jobs reportedly called a Starbucks to get 4,000 lattes delivered.

It was reported that UI designer Freddy Anzures was on a flight from New York to San Francisco when he went into the bathroom stall and saw slide to lock. The idea of the famous “Slide to Unlock” germinated from that moment on.

It’s reported that work on iPhone began years before it was launched in 2007. There were two “projects” under which the work on iPhones was happening and they were codenamed P1 and P2. Incidentally, those phones were never launched.

iPhone made touchscreen popular with the iPhone but it toyed with the idea of having a piano keyboard or even a graffiti keyboard.

In July 2011, NASA sent two iPhones in space as part of a space mission.

Popular photographer used an iPhone 6 Plus to capture the Christmas decorations in the White House. This was the first time a camera phone was used to do so.

This is because Steve Jobs first started the iPhone presentation at 9 am. It was expected that he would finish the presentation at 9:41 am and hence the time in all iPhones is either 9:41 or later it became 9:42.

Such was the impact of the iPhone that Apple dropped the word Computer from its name and renamed itself as Apple Inc.

The iPhone has been by far the most valuable product for Apple. So much so that 61% of the company’s revenues come from the iPhone.

It was the last iPhone under the leadership of Steve Jobs. The company since then has been under the stewardship of Time Cook.

The iPhone is the most-awaited tech product almost every year. The company – unlike most other brands – never gives any hint or “teasers”. It remains a closely-guarded secret till it is officially unveiled.

“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It’s a $500 subsidized item.” Yes, this is what the then-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said at the time of launching the iPhone.