![]() ![]() I never considered myself an Apple fanboy, but here I am in 2017 typing this on my trusty Macbook Air, with my aging iPhone 5 alongside, and an iPad sitting on the windowsill (which I still never use). Apple started shipping with Intel processors! Within a couple of years Apple laptops were everywhere, even at conferences for us Windows developers. The Macbook Air made us realise that the lightest and sexiest laptop/notebook was also made by Apple. Not that I gave a shit about having an awesome phone, all I wanted at the time was to have wikipedia in my pocket so that I could be a know-all at parties.īoth the iPod and later the iPhone made people, especially us geeks, open our eyes to how good Apple’s products could be. But a phone – yes! The iPhone at the time was the best phone any money could buy. ![]() Or TVs – I couldn’t afford (or couldn’t justify buying) a top of the line whizz-bang TV. There’s hardly any products I can think of that I could afford to purchase the best in the world of. The iPhone 3GS (2009), the first iPhone I owned But the iPhone with it’s giant glass screen and intuitive gestures was revolutionary. ![]() Prior the the iPhone the best smartphone was probably a Blackberry, with it’s clunky little keyboard and tiny screen. The fourth generation iPod “photo” modelĪ few years later in 2007 the iPhone came out and completely changed what a smartphone was. The iPod was the beginning of their post-millenium rise – the 3rd generation iPod released in 2003 was the first Apple hardware I’d ever wanted, and I eventually purchased a 4th gen iPod in 2004. They had a small foothold in schools and graphic design shops but that was about it. Back in the 90s hardly anyone used Macs or Apple products. ![]()
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