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On April 1, 1976, inside a modest Los Altos garage, three founders assembled what would become one of the most consequential companies of the modern era. Fifty years later, Apple stands not simply as a technology manufacturer, but as an institution that reshaped personal computing, music distribution, telecommunications, retail, silicon engineering, digital services, and increasingly, artificial intelligence. Apple’s story is not linear. It is marked by collapse and recovery, by radical reinvention and quiet refinement. Across five decades, the company repeatedly entered mature industries and altered their trajectory — sometimes gradually, sometimes overnight. What follows is not merely a sequence of product launches, but a timeline of inflection points that collectively changed how the world interacts with technology. …
摘自《科技生活新闻》(Techlife News)2026年4月4日。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。