'Apple: The First 50 Years' is the Ultimate Apple Encyclopedia

Last month, tech columnist David Pogue released a caller publication titled Apple: The First 50 Years. In the U.S., the hardcover publication is regularly priced astatine $50, but it is presently on merchantability for astir $35 connected Amazon arsenic of the clip of this writing.


Published up of Apple's 50th day connected April 1, the 600-page publication explores the archetypal 5 decades of the company's history. Pogue interviewed 150 cardinal radical who shaped Apple into what it is today, including the company's co-founder Steve Wozniak, erstwhile CEO John Sculley, erstwhile plan main Jony Ive, and galore others.

Here is the book's authoritative description:In clip for Apple's 50th anniversary, CBS Sunday Morning analogous David Pogue tells the iconic company's full beingness story: however it was born, astir died, was calved again nether Steve Jobs, and became, nether CEO Tim Cook, the astir invaluable institution successful the world. The publication features full-color photos, caller facts that close the grounds and illuminate its subversive culture, and caller interviews with the legendary figures who shaped Apple into what it is today.Pogue is simply a CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, and helium spent galore years penning astir Apple and exertion for The New York Times and Macworld.

Last month, steadfast Simon & Schuster provided maine with a transcript of Apple: The First 50 Years, and I see it to beryllium the eventual encyclopedia for each things Apple. While the publication is precise long, it is breached down into digestible sections, interspersed with 350 full-color photos, a representation of cardinal Apple-related locations successful the Cupertino, California area, worker profiles, smaller stories and anecdotes, and more. You tin easy flip backmost and distant done the publication and absorption successful connected topics that involvement you the most.

While I person been intimately pursuing and penning astir Apple for astir 20 years, the publication inactive includes galore facts astir the institution that I did not cognize before, and Pogue delivers connected his committedness of surfacing immoderate caller details too.

If you privation a broad overview of Apple's history, this publication earns my stamp of approval. The hardcover variation makes a large collectible.

Apple: The First 50 Years is available connected Amazon, Apple Books, and elsewhere.

Notes: Simon & Schuster provided MacRumors with a complimentary transcript of the publication for the intent of this review. No different compensation was provided. MacRumors is an affiliate spouse with Amazon. When you click a nexus and marque a purchase, we whitethorn person a tiny payment.
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