{"id":228741,"date":"2026-03-28T23:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/five-apple-anecdotes-as-iphone-maker-marks-50-years-nation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T01:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T05:55:15","slug":"five-apple-anecdotes-as-iphone-maker-marks-50-years-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/five-apple-anecdotes-as-iphone-maker-marks-50-years-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Apple anecdotes as iPhone maker marks 50 years | Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five Apple anecdotes as iPhone maker marks 50 years | Nation<\/a><\/p>\n

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iPhone maker Apple celebrates its 50th anniversary on April 1 having marked pop culture and the tech industry like few other firms since its beginnings in 1976.<\/p>\n

Here are five things you may not know about the history of the California giant.<\/p>\n

– Apple logo –<\/h2>\n

Designer Rob Janoff said that Apple cofounder Steve Jobs gave him one terse instruction when he commissioned a new logo in January 1977: “don’t make it cute”.<\/p>\n

“I just wanted to make the computer easy and fun to be around,” Janoff told Forbes in 2018.<\/p>\n

He included the bite mark for scale to set the apple apart from similar round fruit like cherries — learning only later it was a homonym for the computer term “byte”.<\/p>\n

And belying urban legends, there was no link to the Biblical story of Adam and Eve or the death of computing pioneer Alan Turing.<\/p>\n

Janoff added that the Apple job was “the only time in my entire career where I presented only one solution” to a client.<\/p>\n

“But it was just so right”.<\/p>\n

– ‘1984’ ad –<\/h2>\n

In a totalitarian sci-fi world, a hammer thrown by a young athlete smashes a “Big Brother” figure declaiming to brainwashed citizens from a vast screen.<\/p>\n

Tens of millions of Americans saw director Ridley Scott’s one-minute Apple advert during the Super Bowl on January 22, 1984.<\/p>\n

Broadcast with an announcement of the release of the Apple computer, it was more than a little inspired by George Orwell’s dystopian novel named for the year.<\/p>\n

The ad’s originality lay in the fact it did not directly show off the product, but instead promised a new world of emancipation for consumers thanks to home computers.<\/p>\n

– Bold colours –<\/h2>\n

Apple’s devices have over the years played with colour to set themselves apart from more staid competitors.<\/p>\n

Its first-generation iMacs, released in 1998, offered transparent shells in candy-like blue, green and more — combining a pop of visual interest with a glimpse at the high tech…<\/p>\n

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