Apple turned 50 years old yesterday. The web is full of reminiscences about Apple products and Saint Steve. I haven’t been an Apple user for as long as many have, so here are my five top Apple memories.

https://brucelawson.co.uk/2026/apple-at-50-my-top-five-apple-moments/

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» Apple at 50: my top five Apple moments

@brucelawson I seem to have managed not to buy their products for 50 years, for very similar reasons. Initially because they were too expensive and later because they were shiny but their business practices were anticompetitive.

@woo @brucelawson I wonder what the tech world would look like if the iPhone had never happened?

Maybe we would still have a PC-centric web. That would be a major improvement.

Devices would still have easy to swap batteries. Apple imposed that particular evil on the world, and should die for it.

Headphone jacks would still exist. Maybe even no closed app stores.

Apple is a nasty monopolist in their own fiefdom, and the bad things they get away with spread elsewhere.