{"id":52822,"date":"2026-05-21T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52822"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:52:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:52:38","slug":"apple-the-first-50-years-by-david-pogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2026\/05\/21\/apple-the-first-50-years-by-david-pogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple: The First 50 Years by David Pogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book 19 of 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/cf9de74b-781c-4fa0-aa43-d86f8b1ce3da\"><cite>Apple: The First 50 Years<\/cite><\/a> by David Pogue.<\/p>\n<p>\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: Excellent history of Apple, from its earliest days to today. Covers the ups and downs, with a ton of neat stories about the genesis of a whole slew of technologies, many of which I hadn&#8217;t really realized Apple&#8217;s involvement with. Admittedly, something of a niche subject (even if it&#8217;s a fairly large niche these days), but if you&#8217;re an Apple fan, it&#8217;s well worth the read. And as a long-time Apple user who got started with Apple IIs back in elementary school and got my first Mac (a Mac Classic) in 1990, it was a lot of fun to revisit and get more of the background behind the many things I remembered.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_6123.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Apple: The First 50 Years\" title=\"IMG_6123.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:17297,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/cf9de74b-781c-4fa0-aa43-d86f8b1ce3da&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book 19 of 2026: \u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: Excellent history of Apple, from its earliest days to today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,2036,2049],"tags":[7034],"class_list":["post-52822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-books","category-photos","tag-david-pogue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52824,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52822\/revisions\/52824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}