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.
Here are five things you may not know about the history of the California giant.
– Apple logo –
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”.
“I just wanted to make the computer easy and fun to be around,” Janoff told Forbes in 2018.
He included the bite mark for scale to set the apple apart from similar round fruit like cherries — learning only later…