Apple’s 50-year journey from garage to tech giant

In early 1976 in California, Steve Wozniak had just completed the design of a computer circuit board he intended to share with fellow hobbyists at a prominent local club. His friend Steve Jobs ​also saw a business opportunity to manufacture and sell the boards, and thus Apple was born, Reuters writes.

The company turns 50 on ‌Wednesday. Its rise has shaped both the technology industry and popular culture by making first desktop computers and then smartphones mainstream, popularizing mobile apps and showing how tightly integrated devices and software can work.

The circuit board Wozniak shared with Jobs in 1976 became Apple I, the first in a line of products in the company’s ⁠journey from ​a garage startup to a consumer electronics giant. Over the years, Apple has made ​hits such as the iPod, and its line-up now includes smartwatches, wireless earbuds and mixed-reality headset Vision Pro.