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关于苹果的11件事 The company behind the ubiquitous iPhone and iPad is famously secretive, but there a few little known facts about the California-based company. 如今iPhone和iPad已随处可见，但苹果公司却一直裹在神秘的面纱里。尽管如此，关于这家总部位于加利福尼亚州的高科技公司，我们还是可以稍作了解的。 1 Steve Jobs was adopted and half Syrian ? Apples 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 Schiebles parents. Schieble and Jandali later married and had a daughter, Jobs biological sister. ? 2 Apples first computer was satanically priced ? Apples first computer, the Apple I, was priced at $666.66. Steve Wozniak apparently priced it without realising that the triple-six configuration had Satanic connotations, instead pricing it at one-third over the wholesale price of $500, and preferring one repeating digit over 667 because it was easier to type. ? 3 Apple ships everything by air, not sea ? Apple is Cathay Pacifics 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 that less money is tied up in stock (normally on credit) before it can be sold on. ? It also means that phones, tablets and computers all worth in excess of ￡500 each are not sitting in a container at sea which might sink or get hijacked. ? 4 A Macintosh is an apple variety ? The Apple Macintosh is so called because the macintosh was Jef Raskins 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