Patrick H. Lauke20h ago
Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊

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

Apr 2 at 5:24pmWeb
Show threadtetchy af1d ago
@brucelawson there is an excellent article in the Financial Times today about how Apple screwed over Japanese artisans when scaling, and they’re about to be fucked by the Chinese (since Chinese companies are adopting the Apple approach).
Show threadAndy Wootton23h ago
@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.
Show threadmike80521h ago

@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.

Show threadPatrick H. Lauke4h ago
@brucelawson i also love how apple still to this day refuse to have an official representative on the Pointer Events WG for ... legal reasons, or so i'm told through the grapevine. this nearly resulted in Pointer Events being abandoned years ago...
Show threadPatrick H. Lauke4h ago
@brucelawson web standards cockblocking as a service