Some things you may not know about Apple
It's the little details that add colour to the world's most famous tech giant
Apple, the company behind the ubiquitous iPhone and iPad is famously secretive, but there are a few little-known facts about the California-based company.
Apple's legendary co-founder and chief executive died in October 2011, but while heading up the company Steve Jobs revealed that he was actually adopted and half Syrian. His biological parents, Joanne Schieble and Syrian immigrant Abdulfattah Jandali, met as 23-year-old students at the University of Wisconsin. Jobs was put up for adoption in 1955, through pressure from Schieble's parents. Schieble and Jandali later married and had a daughter, Jobs' biological sister.
Apple is Cathay Pacific's biggest freight customer, as it prefers to move most of its stock by air instead of boat. The benefit is being able to move stock quickly rather than cheaply, with stock moved from China to the US in 15 hours instead of 30 days. It means less money is tied up in stock before it can be sold on and valuable devices are not sitting in a container at sea that might sink or get hijacked.
The Apple Macintosh is so called because the macintosh was Jef Raskin's favourite variety of apple. At the time it was just a codename, which Steve Jobs reportedly tried to change to "bicycle" while Raskin was out of the office, but Macintosh stuck until the end of product development and made it onto the box.