This Week in Apple: Tim is the walrus, goo goo g’joob

Apple and the Apple community mark half a century, the company relents on security updates, and the iPhone is forever.

Apple at 50

Happy 50th birthday, Apple! Like a bad guest at your party, we’re all going to make it about us.

Yes, to mark the event, members of the Apple community took to the web to publish their individual stories about their long personal relationship with the Mac and Apple and that time they visited the Apple campus and Steve Jobs tried to fire them in an elevator even though they didn’t work there.

Chris Breendescribes Apple’s reaction to his mistreating of the company’s glorious products. For Dan, Apple is like an energy field; it surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the Apple community together. The Mac made Shelly Brisbin’s career possible. Jasonarrived on the scene just in time to document Apple’s low point and James Thomson was at Apple for Jobs’s return.…