{"id":51227,"date":"2026-03-12T16:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=51227"},"modified":"2026-03-30T14:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:11:09","slug":"apples-50th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/12\/apples-50th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&rsquo;s 50th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/50-years-of-thinking-different\/\">Tim Cook<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tim_cook\/status\/2032079194923155547\">tweet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/03\/12\/apple-50-years-of-thinking-different\/\">MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/50-years-of-thinking-different\/\">\n<p>Fifty years ago in a small garage, a big idea was born. Apple was founded on the simple notion that technology should be personal, and that belief &mdash; radical at the time &mdash; changed everything.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>At Apple, we&rsquo;re more focused on building tomorrow than remembering yesterday. But we couldn&rsquo;t let this milestone pass without thanking the millions of people who make Apple what it is today &mdash; our incredible teams around the world, our developer community, and every customer who has joined us on this journey. Your ideas inspire our work. Your trust drives us to do better. Your stories remind us of all we can accomplish when we think different.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/03\/12\/apple-announces-50th-anniversary-plans\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/03\/12\/apple-announces-50th-anniversary-plans\/\">\n<p>Apple today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2026\/03\/apple-to-celebrate-50-years-of-thinking-different\/\">announced<\/a> that it will celebrate the company&rsquo;s 50th anniversary over the coming weeks, but it has yet to reveal any specific plans.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/05\/apple-the-first-50-years-forthcoming\/\">Apple: The First 50 Years (Forthcoming)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"apples-50th-anniversary-update-2026-03-17\">Update (<a href=\"#apples-50th-anniversary-update-2026-03-17\">2026-03-17<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2026\/03\/13\/cook-50-years-of-thinking-different\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2026\/03\/13\/cook-50-years-of-thinking-different\">\n<p>But what also makes it so Cook-ian is that it&rsquo;s so utterly anodyne. It&rsquo;s inoffensive to the point of being unmemorable. The best part of Cook&rsquo;s letter is when he harks back and explicitly quotes from an Apple ad campaign from 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/13\/five-decades-of-thinking-different\/\">Five Decades of Thinking Different<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"apples-50th-anniversary-update-2026-03-30\">Update (<a href=\"#apples-50th-anniversary-update-2026-03-30\">2026-03-30<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91514404\/apple-founding-50th-anniversary-apple-1-apple-ii-jobs-wozniak?mvgt=E5Loo3fO74zl\">Harry McCracken<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91514404\/apple-founding-50th-anniversary-apple-1-apple-ii-jobs-wozniak?mvgt=E5Loo3fO74zl\">\n<p>Today, as Apple turns 50, its presence in our lives is so pervasive&mdash;2.5 billion of the company&rsquo;s devices are in active use&mdash;that its unlikely origin story is more resonant than ever. To tell it, I turned to the people who lived it[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2026\/03\/28\/mccracken-apple-oral-history\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2026\/03\/28\/mccracken-apple-oral-history\">\n<p>This feature from Harry McCracken is just spectacularly good.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2026\/03\/apple-at-50-for-further-reading\/\">Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2026\/03\/apple-at-50-for-further-reading\/\">\n<p>If the 50th anniversary celebrations and talk have made you curious about Apple history, there are a <em>lot<\/em> of books out there. Here are some recommendations[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Cook (tweet, MacRumors): Fifty years ago in a small garage, a big idea was born. Apple was founded on the simple notion that technology should be personal, and that belief &mdash; radical at the time &mdash; changed everything. [&#8230;] At Apple, we&rsquo;re more focused on building tomorrow than remembering yesterday. 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