Obsession
I’ve obsessively followed Apple since I first got to play with the Macintosh LC II at Old Trail with Mac OS 7 in 1992. I was 9 years old.
Since then, I’ve had 16 iPhones (some broke, not my fault), Dells, built my own PCs, bought the iBook, 12” Powerbook, the Mac G4 Cube and now I’m writing this on the MacBook 11” Air which I would argue to be the single greatest portable laptop ever. And throughout all this time, the single thing I’ve enjoyed most about obsessively following Apple is being at the forefront of the leap forward.
I remember kicking around in terminal with OS X 10.0, remarking at the then beauty of Aqua & the UNIX kernel and 10 years later 10.0 has evolved into the rock that is now OS X Lion. This leap forward that is available by being the earliest of early adopters has given me an obsession for not just speculating on what’s next but be part of something to help move things forward. I don’t mean this by just throwing down an AMEX to own something but use OS X to code things, iPhones to develop mobile marketing programs and use an iPad to design new interfaces.
It is unimaginable for me to think I could be the person I am today without my obsession with Apple and certainly my career would have gone nowhere. I think this is the impact Steve Jobs has had on my little world.
