Apple turns 50, in a world it helped create

At this moment, 2.5 billion people – a population bigger than China’s – own Apple products. But it all started on a sidewalk near Cupertino, California, where, in 1971, engineering prodigy Steve Wozniak met a charismatic, rebellious high-schooler named Steve Jobs. “And who was to know there was gonna be a company in the future?” Wozniak said. In 1975, few people had ever even seen a computer. But Woz built one (it was little more than a circuit board), and Jobs proposed selling it. “Steve Jobs wanted a company, and did it. And I was his resource!” Wozniak laughed. They…