Tim Cook writing on Apple’s 50th anniversary:

From the first Apple computer to the Mac, from iPod to iPhone, iPad to Apple Watch and AirPods, as well as the services we use every day — the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV — we’ve spent five decades rethinking what’s possible and putting powerful tools into people’s hands.

What strikes me about this list is that it’s dominated by products in Apple’s very recent history. All of the products except the Apple and Macintosh were created in the last 25 years. Even the iPod is not quite 25 years old.

@manton Doesn’t surprise me. Apple’s relentless lack of support for older products is what soured me on their ecosystem.

@manton Reading this, and your response makes me realize how much Apple has been in my life. From the days of the Macintosh IIsi in my classrooms in the early 90s to my first purchased computer: the blue iMac, to the MacBook Pro that I’m typing this on. Not to mention all the iPods, iPhones, etc.

@manton Of course he didn’t thank all the former employees for keeping the fucking lights on in the dim years.