Overview
- Apple, which turned 50 on Wednesday, drew global look-backs and saw a 2,000‑square‑meter Apple museum open in Utrecht.
- Features and lists revisit Apple’s greatest hits such as the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, iPad and Apple Silicon, alongside stumbles like the Lisa, Newton, Pippin, Macintosh TV and the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh.
- A Mac & i podcast episode traces eras from Steve Jobs’s return through Tim Cook’s tenure to frame how Apple moved from hardware breakthroughs to a broader platform role.
- Anniversary explainers unpack the brand’s lore, noting Steve Jobs’s apple‑orchard story, the Beatles’ Apple Records link and designer Rob Janoff’s point that the logo’s bite signals an apple, not a tomato.
- Analyses highlight today’s tests for the company, including EU pressure over its tight ecosystem, rivals setting the pace in artificial intelligence and reports of a planned Google tie‑up, even as the iPhone remains Apple’s main revenue driver.