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Tim Cook Teases Plans for Apple's Upcoming 50th Anniversary

Siliconguy said:
Apple has made some bungles. Liquid Glass is only the latest. But also;
The Apple Car.
That Visor thing.
Apple Intelligence in general.
Siri.
Hanging on to 8GB base RAM way too long.
Hanging on to 256 GB base storage way too long.
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Those aren’t all bungles.
One of them could maybe be considered a “bungle”.
One of them is something that was never announced, never public, and only ever existed in the always possibly unreliable rumor mill.
The rest of them are just things you don’t like, which is not equal to a bungle.
 
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Apple turns 50 this year, and its CEO Tim Cook has promised to celebrate the milestone. The big day falls on April 1, 2026.

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"I've been unusually reflective lately about Apple because we have been working on what do we do to mark this moment," Cook told employees today, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. "When you really stop and pause and think about the last 50 years, it makes your heart sing. It really does. I promise some celebration."

Apple was founded on April 1, 1976, so the company will celebrate its 50th anniversary in a little less than two months from now.

From near-bankruptcy in the late 1990s to becoming the world's most valuable public company in the early 2010s, Apple has been through a series of highs and lows over the past half century. The company just reported an all-time revenue record last quarter, driven by all-time high iPhone sales, so the company has come a long way.

We will be sure to have in-depth coverage of whatever Apple has in store for its 50th.

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I simply won’t believe it..
 
Who could forget Gil Amelio’s $7500USD 20th Anniversary Macintosh - despised by Jobs when he returned to the fold and obsolete within 3 years when OS X was announced.
 
I’m hugely and eternally grateful that I retired young in large part because of my Apple employment and the stock options I received beginning in 2000 and 2001. I am incredibly proud to have managed a team of exceptional people at that time, many of whom are also comfortable because of the effort they gave to help build something awesome and useful for humanity. I am appreciative that my continued investment in Apple has been rewarded with growth, financial security, and stewardship of a publicly traded company that has balanced its fiduciary duty to its stockholders with some bold (and often infuriating) sidesteps that have, overall, helped to define the modern Apple. I look forward to the 50th Anniversary and know that Steve wouldn’t have made any big deal about it, probably at all.

That said… the collective digital mash of OS26’s pretty much suck and are a dishonorable witness to what this company has been able to achieve in the last five decades. They are an ugly dent in the side of a beautiful collectible classic.

I do hope that Apple’s 50th celebration is a return to the basics of making something that Just Works. Bring me a return of simplicity, function, elegance, and purposeful forward-leaning design to keep my digital life elevated above rather than integrated in the daily morass. Digital used to be “better” and now it is simply the daily addiction.
 
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eveluvsrainbows said:
This is wrong, considering it has been reported that Apple's OS releases this year will focus on quality and stability, akin to iOS 12 in 2018, iOS 9 in 2015, and Mac OS X Snow Leopard in 2009. I agree that the software quality of Apple's platforms, mainly iOS, isn't as robust as it used to be, but this has been a common pattern of Apple's operating systems - they add hundreds of new features over the span of a few years, and then spend an annual cycle going over their OSes with a fine toothed comb to improve stability and quality. This is especially the case when Apple introduces a new design language / design overhaul.

Apple's operating systems aren't as simple as they once were, which leads to bugs and quirks that may not have existed back when their operating systems were far simpler and less complex & filled with features. Apple's not oblivious to this, which is why after a few years they spend an annual cycle doing a massive polish pass over their OSes while introducing a limited number of features.
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I’ll believe it when I see it. Snow Leopard type releases have been rumored every year since 2020 yet it didn’t really happen.
 
neomorpheus said:
Wont hold my breath in Tim “dont be poor” Cooks paying any kind of homage or recognition to the great Steve “The Woz” Wozniak on this occasion/event.
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I agree. Also, Tim Cook is so clueless and mediocre that I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't even mention the Apple co-founder Ronald Wayne.

Apple was founded by three men: Ronald Wayne, Steve Wozniak, and Steve Jobs. All three of the founders deserve substanial homage and recognition on the 50th anniversay of the day when Apple was founded.

Since Wayne is poor, and since Cook thinks poor people are less human than rich people, it wouldn't even be surprising if Wayne's name isn't even written as a small footnote anywhere during the 50th anniversary celebration.
 
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Tim Cook Teases - On first reading, my brain replaced one of the o’s with a c, which made for a very bold headline!
 
Siliconguy said:
Cassette tape storage and RAM upgraded 4 kB at a time up to 64 kB max! 😉

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I was thinking about a re-release of the Apple 1 as well, maybe selling a few with a 6800 instead of the 6502... Another announcement would be bring back the Byte Shops.

On a more serious note, the 50th anniversary of the First West Coast Computer Faire is coming up in 14 months, where one of the flyers I picked up was for the Apple II.
 
lepetitnicolas said:
Will they make a 20th anniversary Mac again ?
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Actually making something different like that Mac was, would be cool. Completely different design, just for fun, that could end up a hit and make money as well. I actually thought that since Apple has so much money that they would do something like that years ago. Have like a Mac desktop or laptop once every year or two that was different, just to see what it could do. Like say an 18-inch MacBook Pro with replaceable ram and SSD's etc.

They wouldn't need replacements or even updates, unless it sold really well and/or made some good money. That kind of thing.
 
50 years of enriching people’s lives, for this anniversary we’re celebrating the interplay of hardware and software. We think you’re going to love it.
 
My childhood Apple memories include seeing vendors for the local Apple computer club in the shared space at the university with our computer club, and how they were a bunch of friendly, busy people selling accessory cards like color cards that they assembled themselves, random parts, joysticks, and of course rainbow ribbon cables for the adapters. Quite a change from the boring grey/silver TRS-80 (that didn't even have bitmapped graphics) we had at home. Back then, a "stick of ram" meant a plastic tube full of DIP chips. (yum 😛)

Nowadays, you're not supposed to open the boxes, and they're silver.
 
ThomasJL said:
I agree. Also, Tim Cook is so clueless and mediocre that I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't even mention the Apple co-founder Ronald Wayne.

Apple was founded by three men: Ronald Wayne, Steve Wozniak, and Steve Jobs. All three of the founders deserve substanial homage and recognition on the 50th anniversay of the day when Apple was founded.

Since Wayne is poor, and since Cook thinks poor people are less human than rich people, it wouldn't even be surprising if Wayne's name isn't even written as a small footnote anywhere during the 50th anniversary celebration.
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Its way worse than that.

Just read the comments and observe how many people honestly think that Apple was created only by Jobs and their first computer/product was the Mac.

They also pretend that Jobs was a saint.
 
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