APPLE STILL STRONG AT 40, BUT ARE BEST YEARS BEHIND IT?

Apple turned 40 on Friday, and it’s a very different company from the audacious startup that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak launched in a Silicon Valley garage in 1976. Today, the maker of iPhones and Mac computers is the world’s most valuable public corporation, with 100,000 employees and a new, multi-billion dollar headquarters in Cupertino, California, set to open next year. But despite its astounding financials - Apple reported $53 billion in profit on $233 billion in sales last year - some critics have suggested Apple’s best years are behind it, as it has struggled to come up with new products and match the phenomenal success it has had in recent years. Not surprisingly, longtime employees like software vice president Guy “Bud” Tribble disagree. “We still think we’re going to change the world,”…

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