A thank you apple sits on the fence railing at the home of Steve Jobs in Palo Alto, California, on Saturday, October 8, 2011. A constant stream of people stopped by the home all day with about 50 people there at all times. (Jim Gensheimer/San Jose Mercury News/MCT)
October 12, 2011
Shivanjali Sewak
The passing of Steve Jobs last Wednesday was arguably one of the most shocking deaths of 2011. Jobs reinvented the technological industry with the creation of Apple, Inc., a completely unexpected feat from a first-semester college dropout.
Apple has taken over every aspect of our technological lives, bringing us products like the Mac, the iPhone, the iPad, and perhaps the most influential item, the iPod. Apple’s mp3 player was first released in 2001 and has recreated the digital music player industry with its innovative designs, compactness, and easy maneuverability. Now, eleven years later, it’s customary to see people walking around with Apple’s signature white earbuds in their ears.
Apple isn’t just a hardware-based company, however. iTunes, the world’s largest online media store, hosts music, movies, television shows, podcasts, applications, and even books—and all for reasonably low prices. Safari, Apple’s web browser, has been Internet Explorer’s biggest rival since its creation in 2003. To the many avid Apple fans and those who own its popular electronic devices, the statement “once you go Mac, you never go back” definitely applies.
October 13th, 2011 at 10:26 pm
I wanted to cry when i heard that Steve Jobs died, and when I confirmed it with Google…he was such a visionary. And this is totally accurate, I converted from PC to Mac in like 8th grade and I’ve NEVER gone back nor wanted to! They’re awesome, totally worth the price!
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October 22nd, 2011 at 8:42 am
Mac’s are great if you don’t know a single thing about computers. Talk to any computer engineer/programmer, or just anyone who works with computers, and you’ll find out that a $2000 Mac is on par with an $800 PC that is also infinitesimally more customizable. Now, if you spent that $2000 into a PC…
Also a well-known fact by anyone who works with computers, Safari and Internet Explorer are both slow, complicated, and inefficient. Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are well-renowned as being much more well designed than either Safari or IE.
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My father and brother are computer engineers with computer science majors. My sister-in-law’s parents are computer programmers working at Microsoft and Sony.
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