RIP Steve Jobs
6 October 2011 17:58![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodyearI remember the day my dad came home from work and brought a small computer with him. It was 1991. We'd never own a computer before. But my dad needed one for work and so his boss gave him an Apple Macintosh. A computer and small B&W screen all in one. It was the day we got introduced to Apple and I never used differently.
I remember, back in the 90's, often apologizing to fellow students I couldn't exchange floppies with them, because the Mac couldn't read their format. But I also remember getting computer lessons at school where we had to learn DOS codes. And I always wondered why they didn't use a Mac.
I always loved working on my Mac: intuitive, smooth and clear looking. It almost never had any issues, from the odd 'bomb message we got'.
I remember that Apple became cool when Steve Jobs returned and released those colorful iMacs. I remember the first OS X being announced. It looked so sleek. And then the iPod (I got the first generation).
I still have one of the first all-in-one Macs we got. It has to be about 20 years old but it still works. I also have my iPod (the first generation one), my second iPod. My first generation iPhone. I still have the boxes that game with them. Because it's all designed beautifully. My sister still has my first white iMac, which still looks gorgeous. And still works.
I'm an Apple fan by heart. Always have. Because they make amazing products that are not only good looking, but also simply just work.
This morning I woke up. I turned on the computer and read Steve Jobs had died. And I cried.
I remember, back in the 90's, often apologizing to fellow students I couldn't exchange floppies with them, because the Mac couldn't read their format. But I also remember getting computer lessons at school where we had to learn DOS codes. And I always wondered why they didn't use a Mac.
I always loved working on my Mac: intuitive, smooth and clear looking. It almost never had any issues, from the odd 'bomb message we got'.
I remember that Apple became cool when Steve Jobs returned and released those colorful iMacs. I remember the first OS X being announced. It looked so sleek. And then the iPod (I got the first generation).
I still have one of the first all-in-one Macs we got. It has to be about 20 years old but it still works. I also have my iPod (the first generation one), my second iPod. My first generation iPhone. I still have the boxes that game with them. Because it's all designed beautifully. My sister still has my first white iMac, which still looks gorgeous. And still works.
I'm an Apple fan by heart. Always have. Because they make amazing products that are not only good looking, but also simply just work.
This morning I woke up. I turned on the computer and read Steve Jobs had died. And I cried.
