50 Years of Apple: How the iPhone Maker Revolutionized Tech

50 Years of Apple: How the iPhone Maker Revolutionized Tech

From Terms of Service with Clare Duffy by CNN Podcasts

March 17, 2026 · 29 min

About this episode

The episode explores Apple's impact on technology and society as it celebrates its 50th anniversary, featuring insights from David Pogue.

With Apple marking its 50th birthday next month, we dive into the inside story about how the iPhone maker and its founders changed the way we live, work and communicate by revolutionizing personal technology. How did Apple get its devices into more than a quarter of the world’s hands? And what’s coming in the next 50 years? CBS Sunday Morning Correspondent David Pogue tells Clare what he found while reporting his new book, “Apple: The First 50 Years.” Terms of Service is a CNN Podcasts and Goat Rodeo production. This episode was produced by Jay Venables. At Goat Rodeo, the lead producer is Rebecca Seidel, and the executive producers are Megan Nadolski and Ian Enright. At CNN, Matt Martinez is our Senior Producer and Dan Dzula is our Technical Director. Production support from Sofía Sanchez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Clare Duffy

Guest: David Pogue

Topics covered

  • Apple
  • technology revolution
  • personal technology
  • iPhone
  • 50th anniversary
  • David Pogue
  • future of tech

Keywords

  • Apple
  • iPhone
  • technology
  • David Pogue
  • 50 years
  • revolution
  • personal technology
  • future

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Apple, CBS Sunday Morning, CNN Podcasts, Goat Rodeo

Books & works: Apple: The First 50 Years

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