My love-hate relationship with Apple as an Android user

Last week, on April 1 to be exact, Apple reached the grand old age of 50 (almost exactly a year younger than Microsoft), one of a tiny proportion of S&P-listed companies that have stayed the course for half a century. It is a company with which I have had a special connection and a love-hate relationship for most of my adult life.Not that I have ever owned an Apple product (I have always been a loyal Android man) nor any Apple shares; heavens, I wish I had. No. My special connection is more quirky and personal. Almost every day of my teenage life, I walked into my school’s morning assembly under a shadow that influenced us both: the signature of Isaac Newton, mischievously carved into a granite windowsill at the eastern end of our old school hall.While my connection to Newton’s Apple was a simple accident of geography, Steve Jobs’ connection was not. Apparently, Apple’s original logo, designed by co-founder Ronald Wayne, comprised a detailed drawing of Newton lying underneath the Apple tree.