Well it maybe shouldn't come as a surprise with his recent history but RIP Steve Jobs. He maybe just touted Apples products but he was bloody good at it! I never stayed up to watch anyone else give a developer conference speech or announce "just one more thing"
Thanks for the rev.b Bondi Blue iMac and everything since.
Just thought, never owned a computer with a floppy disk drive (tape's maybe, but no floppy :-) )
ReplyDeleteI have, hateful little things, altho fun if u got one with enough power to send a disk across the room.
ReplyDeleteYou seen the "Imperial March played on two floppy disk drives" video? Google it, it's quite good :-) Would have posted it here but am on my primitive nokia so can't...
ReplyDeleteI thought the Bondi Blue iMacs were awful, even compared to some of the competition at the time. It was too "look at me". I like the idea of making hardware (and software too) 'disappear', to be as unobtrusive as possible. The latest iMacs are simply superb though, much closer to that idea.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't matter though Ben. Without the idea that it was a computer for people who were not interested in all the (perceived) hassle of a computer, I would not have got one. Just wasn't interested.
ReplyDeleteTurned out that if you got a little adventurous there was hassle and as you had a Mac before OSX and before anyone supported them you had to learn. Fast.
Got me into computers, the Internet, got me better jobs because I was doing something different. In turn that got me back into Uni where I literally started a new life, finished a degree, got a family, the works.
Not saying Steve Jobs and his iMac changed my life, but indirectly they helped ;-)
And apart from spewing forth a multitude of "me too" translucent electronics I think my little iMac compared well with the wintel machines that were around at the time.
Yes, I was just talking about aesthetics really. I am glad that the iMac played a part (with other things, no doubt) in your resurrection, as it were. It is a good thing.
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