sad mac
Woke up this morning to the news that Steve Jobs had passed. Wherever you stood on the Mac vs. PC spectrum, the fact that you’re standing on that spectrum at all is largely due to the work of a couple of Steves (this one and Woz) in a garage in Cupertino.
I haven’t used Apple products with any regularity in years (I like hacking the hardware too much – Apples aren’t built for me), but for a lot of people, they were exactly the right product – they “just worked,” and looked really stylish while doing it. But, again, I wouldn’t be regularly swapping out hard drives, SIMMS, and PCI cards in my boxes at all if the Steves hadn’t built one from scratch first. Seeing that first Apple, hand-built wooden case and all, in the Smithsonian was a huge thrill for me a few years ago.
Probably more than Anyone else, Jobs brought personal computers to the masses. Including me. The first computer I ever got my nerdy little hands on was an Apple ][ + back in the third grade. That beige box changed my world.
that’s saying nothing of Pixar…you’d think having a hand in the invention of the personal computer would be enough for some people?
October 6th, 2011 at 6:49 AM