Ronald Wayne, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple on 1 April 1976 to produce and sell personal computers. Fast forward 40 years and the company is one of the largest and most influential in all of history. Its many innovative products have changed the way millions of us use technology and communicate with one another. Here are 9 crazy statistics that show just how popular the company is…
It has twice as much cash as the US government
It’s worth more than the whole of the Russian stock market
It generates more than $300,000 in revenue every minute
In 2014 the company sold over 470,000 iPhones every day; it’s sold over 590 million of them altogether
It’s estimated that an average of 31 Macs are sold every minute
As of early 2016, there are over a billion active Apple products in regular use
Over 100 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store
It can afford to buy everyone in the US an iPod touch and still have plenty of money left over
It was the first US company in history to be valued at over $700 billion
