Celebrating a true icon
I never liked the original iMac. I know, heresy on its 25th anniversary, but it always struck me as an oversized, candy-colored box, and today it's a long distance away from theWhen Steve Jobs, then interim CEO at Apple, introduced it on May 6, 1998, I didn’t pay much attention. I was an editor atWithin a year, though, I was at a new job where my coworkers, a team of creative Apple fans, were cheerfully replacing PowerMacs with a collection of multi-colored iMac computers.
At 17.6 inches by 15.2 inches by 15.8 inches tall and weighing over 38 lbs, it was marginally considered portable thanks to the integrated handle, a lineage trait it shared with the original Macintosh. I remember lifting a couple as we moved them around the office. Coworkers receiving them were excited. I still did not get it.
It was a decent system, with an enviable number of modern USB ports and integrated connectivity, and inside was the essence of the original Mac, which turned 15 years old shortly after. It didn’t have a floppy drive, though, and some critics considered this omission a tick too far ahead of its time.What’s often lost in the story of the iMac is how its name would, without the explosion of the modern Internet just a few years earlier, probably have just been “Mac.
In July 1998, two months after the iMac's unveiling , Jobs explained at MacWorld: “… the iMac, which combines the excitement of the internet with the simplicity of a Macintosh.“ The “i “ was for “Internet.” This is according to the new book about the late Apple founder,
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