How Apple changed us: sharing our biggest memories of Apple 50 years on

With Apple turning 50 this week, it was a fun thing to do Take a trip down memory lane with my CNET teammateslooking back The most famous technology from Apple And share Apple’s impact on our lives.

This week’s episode of One More Thing, embedded below, will take you back to a time when “laptop” meant carrying an entire desktop on your bike. We look back at covering long iPhone launch day lines and unexpected surprises at Apple live events. CNET’s Patrick Holland is an iPhone expert in more ways than one — he used to work as an employee at an Apple Store. He shared how stores became a place where the community came together and mourned the death of Steve Jobs in 2011.

Watch this: Sharing our biggest Apple memories after 50 years

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As reporters, we get… Front row seat For product development. Sometimes that means watching perception shift from belittled to loved. Wearing AirPods doesn’t seem so weird nowThe Apple Watch certainly feels more useful now than when it was launched.

While I began my career as a technology journalist about 20 years ago, Apple’s influence on me began early in classroom computer labs, as it did with many others growing up in the world. Omar Macintosh.

I remember turning on my Apple IIe and loading up the giant floppy disks to play Oregon Trail. Now, I play Oregon Trail Apple Arcade With my kids on my Apple TV. Will this experience, in another fifty years, seem to them as archaic as floppy disk drives do now?

Earlier this week, my colleague Scott Stein explored How can Apple shape the next 50 years?. It’s rare for a company to reach 100 years old, but with Apple, it’s certainly possible.

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