RIP Steve
It was every kids dream, to be Bill Gates. Back then, I was a Windows fanboy.
My first Mac unlike my peers wasn’t an Apple II, but was an Apple Macintosh Performa 600. I have never really used it though, but it was the very first Apple product I’ve every come into contact with.
The next time, would be in my Windows fanboy days, laughing at the terrible speed and not candy colored designs of OS9 on the DV iMacs in my school’s audio visual rooms.
But when Steve introduced the iPod, I sat up. When he showed the world Aqua on OS X, I stood up.
From there, I was enamored with the design of the Mac. But it wasn’t until my really formative years in Polytechnic would I get my very own PowerBook 12”.
I identified with the attention to detail. The strive to be perfect. When I finally picked up Objective-C after years of various other languages, I never looked back too much.
RIP Steve. Without you, nothing that I do today and the friends I’ve made from WWDC would ever happen.
