I am a self proclaimed Apple addict. I have been an Apple fan ever since I was young. My family had a mac computer when I was born and I started using it when I was like 2 or 3 years old. I could barely talk and walk but I knew how to play my games on my mac. I think it was an Apple Mac SE. I was about 7 years old when I got my first Mac computer. I think it was my birthday, my parents got me a used Powerbook 100 that had a whopping 2 MB of ram and 40 MB hard drive with a 16 Mhz proc. The screen was black and white. And I mean black and white: there were only two colors: black and white. It was monochrome, no grayscale at all. My next mac was a Performa 6320 CD that I got for Christmas one year. I was so excited to get it. This one packed a 120 Mhz 603e CPU with 1.2 GB hard drive and 16 MB ram. It also had a 4x CD ROM drive, a 33.6 baud modem, and a TV tuner card that allowed me to watch and record TV - way before the advent of the Tivo! Then I saved for years to get my next computer, the original iMac. The one that was Bondi Blue (or teal to the lay person) and had 233 Mhz processor and 32 MB ram with 40 GB hard drive. Then I got a Powerbook G4 and when that stopped working I got the x86 Macbook that I have now. I've also had numerous iPods, iPhones, iPads, and tons of other Apple products over the years. I had the original iPhone and I am a registered official developer for Apple which means I created apps and had access to all the latest betas and new versions of iOS and everything else. I was making apps before most people even heard the word app. I didn't jump ship when John Scully took over at Apple. Although I wasn't particularly happy with how he was running the company, I was an Apple devotee through thick and thin. So next time someone calls themselves an Apple fanboy, remember me: the real Apple aficionado. Just because somebody has an iPhone doesn't mean they are cool and it doesn't mean they are an Apple fan. Just because you buy a product doesn't make you cool. I have supported and promoted the company for years. During the years that everyone thought Apple was going to go out of business I was preaching the benefits and pros of Apple products and macintosh computers over PCs. I touted my mac's features to anyone who would listen. I had stickers all over of the original Apple logo, not the white one of today - the original rainbow colored apple. Most kids nowadays probably wouldn't even know half of what I am talking about in this article. Which only shows how cool I am and how uncool they are! So remember who the real Apple fans are, the ones who have bought Apple products for years and years, not just someone who has an iPhone and an iPad. Heck, I even take after Steve Jobs in many ways - I drive a brand new Mercedes SL and get a new one every month so that I never have to register it, I named my first daughter Lisa, I dropped out of college and dropped acid, and I became a vegetarian to cure me of my pancreatic cancer. Ok well none of that is really true. But I did stop shaving when I read that Steve Jobs didn't shave. He said that he would rather spend the 15 minutes everyday doing something productive instead of bothering to shave daily. He only shaved a few times a month, and so do I. And the only reason I do so is because of Steve Jobs, I think he has a great point and I would rather spend that time doing something productive like he would. Although I am not a billionaire in my 20's, I am a hard working entrepreneur who will not rest until I have changed the world for the better.
Article By: Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Jared Connell. Jared's personal blog. Jared's other sites.
Article By: Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Jared Connell. Jared's personal blog. Jared's other sites.