So, I’ve only recently become a Mac Geek. I had always admired them from afar, but as I got more into Comp Sci, I started to like the ability of having a nice UNIX back end with a shiny GUI. Still, the f’ers are (well, were) expensive, so I could only drool.
Then Apple released the iPod. Since then, they’ve done everything – well, almost everything right. Whereas before you’d look at some of the things they did and go “yes, but why?!!?”, but now you go “oh, look at that nice small incremental change, building upon the previous incarnation”. The iPods came out, then got bigger, and thinner, then had pictures, then video (paralleling all that was the nanos, minis and shuffles). All of this had 3 results: 1) Pissing people off that just ordered item A when item A.1 is announced, 2) Keeping the Mac Geeks drooling for more in an almost non-stop fashion throughout the calendar year and 3) giving more and more exposure to Apple’s PC lines – sprouting the newer fancier iMacs and Minis along the way. Throw in iTMS in all its incarnations and you get a very complete picture. The move to Intel chips lately is going to expose the world more and more to Apple.
Apple continues to make the right step – small, smart, incremental. I must say over the last few years I’ve become a fan. And a Mac Geek.
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