Approaching a retrospective of Apple’s first 50 years is like looking up at a waterfall. You can see its shape and where it begins and ends, but if you stand under the cascade, you risk being washed away by the water’s force and volume.
When I began assembling a list of notable Apple products to commemorate the company’s 50th anniversary, it kept growing. There’s the original Apple II and Macintosh, but also Quadras and Power Macintoshes from the 1990s with barely remembered number designations. And those were all before Steve Jobs returned to the company and reinvigorated it with the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad.
Instead of touching on every model and revision — heck, or even entire product families, apologies to my beloved StyleWriter II — I’ve put together a list of 13 Apple products that CNET has reviewed and featured over the years. Although Apple was incorporated on April 1,
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