RMP 052 — Apple’s Most Significant Products of the Last Half Century

Episode NotesApple News* April 1: Apple Computer 50th Anniversary — https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-to-celebrate-50-years-of-thinking-different/* The Mac Pro is officially discontinued— https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/26/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro/* WWDC26 announced for June 8-12 — https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apples-worldwide-developers-conference-returns-the-week-of-june-8/* Tim Cook steps down as CEO; John Ternus (senior VP of hardware engineering) named as successor — https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-ceo-tim-cook-stepping-down-to-be-succeeded-by-john-ternus-204237479.htmlLinux/FOSS News* Gnome 50 released — https://release.gnome.org/50/* Manjaro 2.0 manifesto — https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-2-0-manifesto/186171* Ubuntu 26.04 “Resolute Raccoon” released — https://documentation.ubuntu.com/release-notes/26.04/* Fedora Asahi Remix 43 — https://asahilinux.org/fedora/Microsoft News* Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price went up last month, now drops — https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/04/21/xbox-game-pass-update/* April “Patch Tuesday” was the second largest security update in it’s history — https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/patch-tuesday-analysis-april-2026/Other Tech News* Anthropic’s Claude “Mythos” LLM released to select companies — https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/07/anthropic-claude-mythos-ai-hackers-cyberattacks.html* NationStates game data breach — https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=2747770Retro Gaming News* Fans make a 2.5D side-scrolling action platformer version of Tomb Raider — https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/04/a-fan-project-not-to-be-missed-this-new-project-reimagines-the-classic-tomb-raider-games-as-a-2-5d-sidescroller* Commodore International backs down amid customer frustration over FPGA custom firmware — https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/04/we-listened-we-agree-no-fpga-lockdown-commodore-backpedals-on-unofficial-c64-ultimate-firmwareCommand Line Tool of the Month: quote-cliMIT licensed, Javascript app to get a random quote of the day in your terminal.npm install -g quote-cliWays to Join the Community This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit retropunk.substack.com/subscribe