50 Years of Apple: How the iPhone Maker Revolutionized Tech – Terms of Service with Clare Duffy

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If I asked you for the one company that has had the biggest impact on personal technology, the gadgets we use, the software that we use on those devices, the culture around technology, what would you say it is? Maybe Apple? Apple has revolutionized personal computers, phones, and more. As our guest today, David Pogue, writes in his new book, 27% of the world’s population now uses Apple devices. That means if Apple users were a country, it would be the most populous in the world. As the company turns 50 years old this year, I wanted to take a look back at how Apple came to have such a huge influence in our lives. So I am so glad to have David Pogue here with me today. David is a CBS Sunday morning correspondent and bestselling author of the new book, “Apple: The First 50 Years,” which paints a very detailed picture of that history. I’m CNN tech reporter Clare Duffy, and this is Terms of Service. My conversation with David Pogue after the break. David, thank you so much for being here. So before we really get into the book, you have been writing about Apple for over 20 years now, and you were actually in college when the first Macintosh came out. What was it like for you when you first experienced Apple’s technology?

‘That was really my introduction to technology. I’m known now as a tech reporter, but I mean, I was like a musical theater nerd in high school. I had no clue. But this thing was so beautiful and so powerful. I mean many of your viewers are too young to remember, but in 1984 computers were command line. You would memorize commands, you’d have to type them with punctuation and–

They may or may not have had a screen, right?

That is true….

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