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Apple’s services business and iPhone sales keep driving revenue as the company faces slower AI progress, tariff pressure and competition from China.
- Apple marks its 50th anniversary on Wednesday, celebrating its evolution from a Silicon Valley garage startup to a $3.7 trillion market-value giant.
- Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer Co. on April 1, 1976, in California, with adviser Ron Wayne holding a 10% stake before relinquishing it for $2,300.
- Following his 1997 return, Jobs masterminded a decade of innovation, launching the iPod and iPhone, which have sold more than 3 billion units since 2007.
- CEO Tim Cook has stewarded the company since Jobs's death, expanding its services business and hardware lineup while introducing products like the Vision Pro.
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Apple at 50: where does it go from here?
“If you look backward in this business, you’ll be crushed. You have to look forward,” said Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs in 2008, a year after he introduced the first iPhone and changed the world forever.Apple may indeed be “allergic to nostalgia”, said Steven Levy in Wired, but the company is still “begrudgingly engaging in a series of concerts and commemorations, and we’re being blitzed by books, articles and oral histories” to mark its …
From garage to tech titan: Apple turns 50
In early 1976 in California, Steve Wozniak had just completed the design of a computer circuit board he intended to share with fellow hobbyists at a local club. His friend Steve Jobs also saw a business opportunity to manufacture and sell the boards, and thus Apple was born.
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