"I'm a PC." But there's no avoiding the impact Jobs & Apple had on personal computing.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

I work in higher ed instructional tech and though Apple focused on the K-12 market, what they helped deliver to us were students demanding computer-driven educational technology and PC's working hard to do both what Apples did and what 'IBM-compatible' machines had been doing. My job, my career path, how I think, my life-- who I am-- would be immensely different had there been no Steve Jobs pushing the envelope for so many years.

RIP, sir.

[customerserviceguy]

1. Apple also started people down the road

to thinking they could harness the power of the computer. I vividly remember this ad:

[rocktivity]

2. I was working in the creative department of an ad agency when the revolution came

They took away our typewriters, gave the account execs the IBMs, and gave the creative department the Apples. On subsequent jobs, I'd joke that I was "bi" because I used a PC at work and a Mac at home. I would wonder what would have happened if I'd been given a PC back then, but then came the fateful day that I got such a bad PC computer virus at work, it took three days to fix. If that had happened to a PC I was using at home, I definitely would have thrown it through a window while screaming "That's it! I'm getting a Mac!"

I've matured since then -- I have to run Windows on my Mac Mini, so I use Paralells (no fussing with partitioning or logging in and out between platforms), and Mac Cleaner as a precaution (the more popular Macs become, the more vulnerable they become to PC registry and hacking problems). But all in all, I have to agree: as an inherently creative person, Steve Jobs very much had a role in steering the course of my life.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[gateley]

3. I heard someone say that although there was digital music

before the iPod, Steve Jobs made it easy for everyone -- what was math became recess. :)

[pokerfan]

4. I'm Linux

RIP, Steve.

[Initech]

5. I'm not as big on Apple as I used to be, but...

There's no denying that I have used my fair share of Macs in my life. The first computer I ever used was one of these:



And I've owned and/or used these:






RIP.