Tim Cook: "Nunca ha habido un momento de tan gran potencial como hoy"

Hoy, Apple cumple 45 años desde su fundación, el día 1 de abril de 1976. La compañía ha cambiado mucho desde entonces, y gran parte de ese camino lo han recorrido de la mano de figuras como Steve Jobs, Jony Ive o Steve Wozniak. Han sido más de cuatro décadas repletas de innovación al servicio de los usuarios.

Durante todos estos años, Apple ha mantenido un firme compromiso para mejorar la vida de las personas a través de la tecnología. Y es precisamente en eso en lo que Tim Cook cree que la compañía tiene un mayor potencial para los próximos años, algo que ha manifestado en un memorándum a sus empleados.

El CEO de Apple ha compartido, con motivo de este aniversario, unas palabras sobre la evolución de la compañía en los ya 45 años de vida que tiene. En este documento, compartido por MacGeneration, hace referencia a cómo la compañía ha ido cambiando sin dejar atrás los compromisos que tomaron cuando se fundó en 1976.

"On April 1, 1976, a company was formed in Cupertino to create transformative products that redefine what technology can achieve and make people's lives better in the process. Forty-five years later, we mark this occasion by rededicating ourselves to that mission -- and to keeping it alive for a long time to come -- rather than to remember it fondly as something past.

While some things about Apple have changed over these many years, the important things haven't. From the M1 chip to 5G iPhones, from iPads that change the face of education and productivity to a Watch that can look out for your health, to the very best Software and Services that bring them all to life, we have never stopped setting the pace that others try to match. What I can tell you with gut certainty is that there has never been a moment of such great potential as this one, nor have we ever had so talented and dedicated a team. That shouldn't make us rest easy. Great potential obligates great people to meet it.

I know this past year has tested each of us in ways that we never imagined. It's asked all of us to adapt, it's added complexity to our work and it has demanded additional resolve and commitment in areas of our lives that extend well beyond our work. But I also know that what we have each achieved during this time should make us enormously proud. Through a once-in-a-generation challenge, the things we make, and the ways in which we make them, have revealed profound and durable new sources of value to the people who love and count on them. And, on many fronts, we know even brighter days are ahead.

In an email like this one, to mark a much earlier anniversary shortly after I joined Apple, Steve said, "it's been an amazing journey so far, yet we have barely begun." Still true. Remember that none of us will be here for the end of the story, but it's on all of us to make sure it's one worth telling."

Además, Tim Cook también ha compartido en Twitter una publicación con respecto al aniversario de la compañía, refiriéndose concretamente a una de las frases de Steve Jobs, junto con un agradecimiento a los empleados de la compañía.

As Apple celebrates 45 years today, I’m reminded of Steve’s words from many years ago: “It’s been an amazing journey so far, yet we have barely begun.” Thanks to every member of our Apple family for all you’ve done to enrich lives. Here’s to the next 45 years & beyond!

— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) April 1, 2021

Por nuestra parte, solo queda desear otros 45 años más de innovación, y de noticias que podamos compartir con todos vosotros, ¡feliz aniversario, Apple!