The whole world has been awash with editorial about the sad passing of Steve Jobs. Without trying to add more to what has been said already, I thought I would say a few words on how he and Apple have come in an out of my life.
First initial contact was with the Apple LC in the early 90’s at Art college, great machine and way ahead of any PC’s. The brand had cool written all over it.
In 1999 I bought my 1st iMac – which was superb, although at times testing due to system crashes, probably down to me rather than the device.
The design of the iMac and the marketing behind it created a great buzz not just about the product but this new thing called the Inter -Web! It was the reason why I work in Web design now and how Armadillo-Web first took shape. I love that machine, created my first website and started a business around it.
The iMac was perfect, it looked the business. had a good operating system,and more importantly it was an INTERNET machine with internal 56kp modem!! Most PC modems I recall were all external drives. This iMac did not need any ugly external modems – it was ready to rock…albeit the internet connection was at snail pace…but who cared!!
The mouse was the cool round shape connected via USB (unheard of at the time), there was no floppy disk drive too. It was stritcly CD based and even the power lead and keyboard was translucent and great detail to good design.
The iMac did it for me all round, a machine for life and work. It still sits proudly but somewhat hidden in my wardrobe. Its sadly-out of action – but every so often its powered up and used for the novelty factor. Even now my youngest daughter is still in awe of the unusual shape and bright coloured design – and she is only 8! good taste!
My journey with Apple went into limbo after 2002, simply because the world of web design was so PC at the time, to test on a PC – it easier to have a grey box. Every so often I would glance over at the new iMac’s with a view to purchase.
To cut a this story short, the next Apple device, was iPhone – which again revolutionised my world – email, internet, phone, music..wikked!! And now ironically on the day that the big man passed away, I have the iPad too. The iPad and mobile websites, apps etc is where it is now.
So, the main thought behind all this, is thank you Steve Jobs, my web experience and business was inspired by you thinking outside the box. Adios for now!
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