Apple at 50: From Garage Beginnings to a $3.5 Trillion Titan

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Apple marks its 50th anniversary, tracing its journey from a garage startup in 1976 to a $3.5 trillion tech titan, with $416 billion in revenue, $112 billion in net income, 166,000 employees, and over 2.5 billion active devices, driven by design, privacy and a loyal brand; the piece covers milestones like the iPhone era, near-bankruptcy in the 1990s, Jobs’s return, and current celebrations plus memorabilia auctions.
- Apple at 50: How a garage startup became a $3.5-trillion titan Los Angeles Times
- Think different — for 50 years Harvard Gazette
- How Apple became Apple: The definitive oral history of the company’s earliest days Fast Company
- If you live in Georgia, there's a new exhibit you can visit celebrating Apple's 50th anniversary Engadget
- 50 years of Apple pushing tech forward, for better or worse Engadget
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