Apple’s first 50 years: Charts show how the iPhone maker became a $4.85 trillion giant

Apple’s history is often told as a procession of blockbuster devices—and that’s certainly a striking part of it. The most successful of those devices, the iPhone, remains a powerful engine for the company, accounting for about half of sales in 2025.

But the company that first caught the public imagination with its inspired product design has also spent its first half-century building an ecosystem that delivers a river of recurring........

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