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iPhone is a Chinese brand of leather products…

May 25, 2022May 25, 2022Weirdo

iPhone is a Chinese brand of leather products and none of them are phones, which is why Apple lost a legal battle against them and has to share the trademark for the word “iPhone” with them.

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Two teams competed to design…

February 2, 2022February 2, 2022Weirdo

Two teams competed to design the iPhone. Dial based hardware vs. touch screen. It wasn’t until the iPhone reveal event, that on stage, Jobs ruthlessly made it clear which team won. He showed the world the power of touch, by deleting the contact of loosing designer Tony Faddell with a single tap.

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The first public call made from…

September 23, 2020Weirdo

The first public call made from an iPhone was made by Steve Jobs. He called a Starbucks and ordered 4,000 lattes; then said ‘just kidding’ and hung up.

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A man in China sold his kidney….

October 22, 2019October 22, 2019Weirdo

In 2011, a man in China sold his kidney to buy a iPhone 4 and iPad 2 when he was 17. Now he is bedridden for life.

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Foxconn, the iPhone manufacturer, has reduced…

December 8, 2016Weirdo

Foxconn, the iPhone manufacturer, has reduced its employees from 110,000 to 50,000, thanks to the introduction of robots.

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The first “iPhone” was actually released in 1998…

September 30, 2016Weirdo

iphone1998The first “iPhone” was actually released in 1998 by a company called Infogear, a good nine years before Steve Jobs introduced Apple’s iPhone. Infogear was subsequently acquired by Cisco which then got into a trademark battle with Apple in 2007 over the name. The two companies eventually settled.

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The mobile game “Send Me to Heaven” involves throwing your phone…

November 2, 2015Weirdo

The mobile game “Send Me to Heaven” involves throwing your phone as high in the air as you can. The creator said he made it with the hope of destroying as many iPhones as possible, but Apple banned it from the App Store.

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A woman rolled up to a store during an iPhone launch with…

October 27, 2015Weirdo

A woman rolled up to a store during an iPhone launch with a plan to buy out the entire store stock of iPhones and post the phones on Ebay. She bought her way to the front of the line for $800 … only to be told later about the “one phone per customer” rule.

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George Hotz, then 17 years old, was the first to unlock a first…

September 24, 2015Weirdo

George-HotzGeorge Hotz, then 17 years old, was the first to unlock a first generation iPhone and sold the iPhone for a Nissan 350z and 3 locked iPhones.

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Verizon accidentally sent a customer a rare iPhone 6 prototype upon contract…

May 10, 2015Weirdo

Verizon accidentally sent a customer a rare iPhone 6 prototype upon contract renewal, the customer quickly took the rare handset to eBay and sold it for $100,000 to a bidder.

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