Apple turns 50, in a world it helped create
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At this moment, 2.5 billion people – a population bigger than China's – own Apple products. But it all started on a sidewalk near Cupertino, California, where, in 1971, engineering prodigy Steve Wozniak met a charismatic, rebellious high-schooler named Steve Jobs. "And who was to know there was gonna be a company in the future?" Wozniak said. In:
At this moment, 2.5 billion people – a population bigger than China's – own Apple products. But it all started on a sidewalk near Cupertino, California, where, in 1971, engineering prodigy Steve Wozniak met a charismatic, rebellious high-schooler named Steve Jobs. "And who was to know there was gonna be a company in the future?" Wozniak said.
In 1975, few people had ever even seen a computer. But Woz built one (it was little more than a circuit board), and Jobs proposed selling it. "Steve Jobs wanted a company, and did it. And I was his resource!" Wozniak laughed.
They sold 150 of Woz's first computer. They sold six million of his second, the revolutionary Apple II. "It was so far above any of the other computers coming out!" Wozniak said. "We didn't foresee the future, the way it turned out. But we said, 'For today, we're taking a step forward ahead of others.'"
Apple took a very big step forward in 1984. The Macintosh was Jobs' passion project: the first affordable computer with a mouse, menus, and friendly graphics.
But darker times were ahead. After a power struggle with CEO John Sculley, Jobs left Apple for 11 years. The company started sliding into irrelevance.
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