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Fun facts computed over this museum's universe: 138 products cataloged as of October 24, 2026. This is not everything Apple has made; it is what this catalog has documented, and we say so.
Note: the figures on this page are a snapshot from October 24, 2026 (138 entries), from before the latest additions and catalog adjustments; they will be updated with a documented recount.
On June 12, 2005, Steve Jobs delivered the Stanford University commencement address. He never graduated from college: "This is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation." The official video, published by Stanford on its own channel, remains a reference among commencement speeches.
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Video summary. Jobs warns he will tell only three stories. The first, "connecting the dots": he dropped out of Reed College after six months and kept attending as a drop-in; he slept on the floor in friends' rooms, returned bottles for the five-cent deposits and walked about seven miles on Sundays to eat at the Hare Krishna temple. A calligraphy class he sat in on out of curiosity resurfaced ten years later in the typography of the first Macintosh: "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards." The second, "love and loss": he started Apple at 20 and at 30 the company publicly fired him; what kept him going was that he loved what he did. He founded NeXT and Pixar, Apple bought NeXT and he returned. The third, "death": in 2004 he was diagnosed with a pancreatic tumor that turned out to be operable, and it left him a lesson: "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." He closes with the words on the back cover of the final Whole Earth Catalog: "Stay hungry. Stay foolish."
How it was written. Jobs used no speechwriters: he wrote it himself. Days earlier he emailed the draft to his friend Michael Hawley with an uncharacteristic note: "It's embarrassing. I'm just not good at this sort of speech" (Wired). He rehearsed for days, reciting it aloud around the house (Forbes). Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin has said Jobs sent him the text and that he only fixed typos; that is Sorkin's account and it is compatible with Jobs' authorship: Jobs wrote the speech and Sorkin, by his own telling, only touched up typing errors (Business Insider).
Sources: full text at Stanford Report · video on Stanford's official YouTube channel · Wired · Forbes · Business Insider. Detail on the Sources page.
The Macintosh project was started by Jef Raskin in 1979, who named it after his favorite apple variety (McIntosh, respelled Macintosh to sidestep a trademark). Steve Jobs took over the project in 1981. The original team included Burrell Smith (logic board), Andy Hertzfeld (operating system), Bill Atkinson (QuickDraw and MacPaint), Susan Kare (icons and typefaces: the "Happy Mac" is hers), Jerry Manock (industrial design), Joanna Hoffman (marketing) and George Crow (analog electronics). The development anecdotes are told by the team itself at folklore.org: 123 first-person stories collected by Hertzfeld, a firsthand primary archive on how the Mac was made.
Sources: folklore.org (Andy Hertzfeld and the original team) · Byte interview with the design team (October 1983, Computer History Museum).
In November 2004, Jobs kicked off Apple's official phone project with Tony Fadell (hardware), Scott Forstall (software) and Jony Ive (design). Codename: "Purple". According to Greg Christie, the interface lead, the team was "shockingly small" and worked for about two and a half years. Secrecy was total: Forstall could not discuss the project even with Apple colleagues outside the team. To avoid betting the company on one approach, two paths were developed in parallel: P1, a phone derived from the iPod, and P2, a shrunk-down OS X; P2 won. Jobs unveiled it on January 9, 2007: "Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone."
Sources: Business Insider (Greg Christie) · Wired · The Verge (excerpt from "The One Device" by Brian Merchant).
Sources: Snopes and CNBC (Wayne) · Smithsonian, Mental Floss and Engadget ("1984").
The summaries are editorial descriptions of each book (what it covers and how it is documented), not full-reading reviews.
138 products in ten families: 38 iPhone, 30 Mac, 16 Watch, 14 iPad, 9 Audio, 7 Home, 4 iPod, 1 Vision, 11 accessories and 8 future concepts.
By decade: 1970s: 6 · 1980s: 14 · 1990s: 2 · 2000s: 16 · 2010s: 40 · 2020s: 56 (plus 4 concepts in the 2030s).
The curious bit: almost no nineties. Only 2 entries between 1990 and 1999; the catalog has not documented that decade in depth yet.
Jobs era I (1976–1985): 19 entries · Without Jobs (1985–1997): 1 · Jobs era II (1997–2011): 21 · Cook era (2011–today): 89 · Future concepts: 8.
The bounds use documented dates: Jobs left Apple on September 16, 1985, the NeXT acquisition closed on February 4, 1997, and Jobs resigned as CEO on August 24, 2011. When an entry has an exact announcement date, the date wins; if only the year is known, the year decides, except in transition years (1985, 1997, 2011), which would be marked as uncertain. Both 2011 entries have exact dates: iPad 2 (March 2, Jobs era II) and iPhone 4S (October 4, Cook era).
15 entries are products on sale today, 115 are not listed in the checked store and 8 are concepts.
Source: verified model by model in Apple's store (apple.com/shop/buy-mac, apple.com/shop/buy-mac/imac, apple.com/airpods/compare) and everymac.com's current-devices list (everymac.com), all on October 24, 2026. «Not in the current store» does not prove an official worldwide discontinuation: it only means the product was not listed in the checked sources that day.
2025: 10 entries · 2024: 9 · 2020: 8 · 1983: 7 · 2022: 7.
These are the years with the most entries in this catalog, not necessarily Apple's biggest launch years.
Apple I (1976) · iPod (2001) · iPhone (2007) · Apple TV (2007) · iPad (2010) · Apple Watch (2015) · AirPods (2016) · Vision Pro (2024).
First products of each family within the catalog.
Universe: the 138 entries of this catalog as of October 24, 2026; it does not claim to cover every Apple product.
We publish no «best seller» or «most flawed» rankings: there is no comparable public source across all products, and we would rather not name a winner without evidence.