Paul McCartney Gives Inside Look at Apple Park 50th Anniversary Performance

[MacRumors]

To celebrate Apple’s 50th anniversary earlier this month, Paul McCartney held a special performance for Apple employees at the company’s Apple Park campus.

McCartney recently shared a behind-the-scenes tour video of his visit to Apple Park, providing an inside look at the campus and a special meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Cook said that Apple could not think of anyone better to celebrate its 50th anniversary with.

It’s an incredibly special day for us, our 50th anniversary, and we could not be happier to have Paul here to share it with. We love the Beatles. We love the band itself. We love Paul. I can’t think of anyone better to celebrate the moment with.

The video is just about three minutes long, and it includes snippets of McCartney’s private performance.

Article Link: Paul McCartney Gives Inside Look at Apple Park 50th Anniversary Performance

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

Tim asked him to stay, but Paul had to Get back to where he once belonged.

 

[klasma]

Cook said that Apple could not think of anyone better to celebrate its 50th anniversary with.

Steve Wozniak must have slipped Apple’s mind.

 

[jbc25]

At some point in my life I'd love to see Tim Cook behaving as an actual human instead of Apple's spokesperson, but this is pretty cool. I hope they allowed some people from outside the Apple spaceship to attend.

 

[iPrabhu]

While we (and Steve) all love The Beatles, who else can be the better guest than Steve Woz, the techie who built it?

 

[I7guy]

While we (and Steve) all love The Beatles, who else can be the better guest than Steve Woz, the techie who built it?

Why wasn’t forstall invited?

 

[davidg4781]

Steve Wozniak must have slipped Apple’s mind.

I don't think he would have been as entertaining on the stage.

 

[klasma]

I don't think he would have been as entertaining on the stage.

But Cook didn’t say that Apple could not think of anyone more entertaining on the stage.

 

[davidg4781]

But Cook didn’t say that Apple could not think of anyone more entertaining on the stage.

Alright true. But I took that as an entertainment person. Not just to sit around and chat.

 

[escargot3]

Steve Wozniak must have slipped Apple’s mind.

Woz was both invited and present. Kind of a misinformed and nasty comment.

 

[Starfia]

(Eddy Cue lookin' chipper there.)

 

[relaxedpanda]

Woz was both invited and present. Kind of a misinformed and nasty comment.
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lol yes but also Apple can’t refuse Woz, though everyone there internally doesn’t like him and see him as unhinged and disconnected 🙂

 

[Earwolf]

Jobs n Woz began with garage full of solder
But they knew it couldn't last
Jobs left this mortal coil and Woz became a loner
While Tim cooked up some liquid glass

 

[Veinticinco]

Old, grey, wrinkled, nasally voiced, and a pale shadow of his late charismatic colleague.

Not a fan of Paul McCartney either.

 

[coolfactor]

Wow! I've never seen the Rainbow Stage that close up and fully packed before. Incredible performance. Apple really treated their team well. 😃 What a company.

 

[Baseiseough]

I don't think he would have been as entertaining on the stage.

I heard he makes some impressive stunts on his segway.

 

[cbdilger]

We've come a long way from "Sosumi."

 

[Art Mark]

As Steve pointed out long ago, the Beatles were 4 guys who added up to something greater than they were alone. Just like pretty much every Apple product I have used in the last 39 years of my working life.

 

[jimthing]

There's a great doc on the Beeb at the moment about Paul getting his original bass guitar back after it was stolen 50 years ago... so around the time Apple was starting, coincidentally. Worth the watch.

McCartney: The Hunt for the Lost Bass

The disappearance of Paul McCartney’s original Höfner bass over 50 years ago is one of rock ‘n’ roll’s great mysteries. This is the story of the iconic instrument and the quest to find it.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[ThomasJL]

Cook said that Apple could not think of anyone better to celebrate its 50th anniversary with.

I can think of someone better to celebrate the 50th anniversary with: Ronald Wayne, who is one of the three founders of Apple, and who typed the legal document that officially established Apple as a company on April 1, 1976—which is the 50th anniversary date that you are celebrating, Tim, you clueless and mediocre bean-counting suit!

Tim Cook is so clueless and mediocre, that if a married couple named John Smith and Jane Smith were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary and put Cook in charge of the celebration, Cook would likely invite and give the most attention to a bunch of huge celebrity musicians, and never even once mention nor show Mr. and Mrs. Smith!

 

[davidg4781]

I can think of someone better to celebrate the 50th anniversary with: Ronald Wayne, who is one of the three founders of Apple, and who typed the legal document that officially established Apple as a company on April 1, 1976—which is the 50th anniversary date that you are celebrating, Tim, you clueless and mediocre bean-counting suit!

Tim Cook is so clueless and mediocre, that if a married couple named John Smith and Jane Smith were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary and put Cook in charge of the celebration, Cook would likely invite and give the most attention to a bunch of huge celebrity musicians and never even once mention nor show Mr. and Mrs. Smith!

I really don't get all the hate for Tim. Yeah, Apple's not magical and amazing like it was under Steve, but Steve's Apple wasn't perfect either.

Looking back, I'm actually surprised Tim let consumers dictate Apple's moves like he did. They developed an amazing form factor in the cylinder Mac Pro and everyone complained we'd see stacks and stacks of peripherals (were there ever any like this in the wild that weren't already doing that with their old Pro?). It had its flaws but for a first generation device, it was pretty forward thinking. They had to pull that, reinvent the next gen Mac Pro, and the next year Apple Silicon launched. Now we have the Mac Studio, a block of aluminum, when we could've had the beauty of the cylinder running an M4 Ultra.

What about MacBook Pros? On its way to the future with USB-C but everyone wanted to stick their SD cards in there so they had to add that back instead of adding a third USB-C port or Face ID in that notch. Thunderbolt 5 transfers at 80-120 Gbps where SD cards will do .3 Gbps.

 

[ThomasJL]

Woz was both invited and present. Kind of a misinformed and nasty comment.
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Woz wasn’t prominently featured though. And that’s because Tim Cook is clueless and mediocre.

Apple is the only company in the entire world that sold the world’s first personal computer as we know it, and that world’s first personal computer as we know it was single-handedly invented and built by Woz.

Cook didn’t even mention that the Apple I was the world’s first personal computer as we know it. Apple is the only company that can claim that, yet Cook doesn’t even mention that. The man is a bastion of mediocrity!

Woz should’ve been the most prominently featured guest at the 50th anniversary celebration, but he wasn’t, and Cook didn’t even mention Woz in the interviews Cook did about the celebration.

Ronald Wayne should’ve been the second-most prominently featured guest at the celebration, but there have been no reports that he was even invited.

Furthermore, it’s reported that Wayne is poor. It would’ve changed his life had he received the large sum money that Apple likely paid Paul McCartney to perform. Wayne deserves that money far more than McCartney (who is a billionaire). But Cook obviously doesn’t care.

The 50th anniversary celebration is supposed to celebrate Apple’s founding. Apple only had three founders: Woz, Jobs, and Wayne. Leave it to someone as clueless and mediocre as Cook to not feature nor even mention the only two living Apple founders, Woz and Wayne, on the 50th anniversary celebration of Apple’s founding!

 

[svish]

Nice to see this. Apple should have live streamed the whole event that took place on 31st March.