Apple computers

So the Apple Macintosh has been around for 25 years now.

I have to chuckle about this, because when I got my first computer in about 1993, it was a Macintosh Performa, and so many of my friends were just aghast that I had gotten an APPLE instead of a Windows-based PC! I can't tell you how many of them tried to argue me out of getting a Mac - "They have a very very small share of the market, and they're going to go belly up pretty soon, and then you'll be stuck with an obsolete computer you paid a lot of money for!" "You won't be able to find very many games for it; if you want to play a lot of games on your computer, you need to get a Windows PC!" And even AFTER I bought the Mac and brought it home, erstwhile-friend Lisa ARGUED with me that I shouldn't have gotten it, and kept giving me all the reasons why SHE thought I should not have bought a Mac - AFTER I'd bought it! Wouldn't you think she could have said, "Well, maybe it's not what I would have chosen, but I hope you enjoy your new computer and have many happy hours of computing with it"? But then, Lisa would argue with a sign post; that's just the way she is.

I chuckle because this was in 1993, and here it is 2009, and Apple, while still not a leader in the market like Windows-based PCs, hasn't gone anywhere. It HASN'T gone belly-up, it's still in the marketplace, it's still popular in its own little niche. I never bought any computer games because I'm just not all that interested in computer games, so the fact that more computer games are available for Windows as opposed to Macs is irrelevant to me. And all those naysayers who told me that Mac was going to go out of business in just a year or two - where are they?

I hope Steve Jobs recovers his health. I hate to hear about anyone being ill, and he is definitely an American icon because of his connection to the Mac.