Amaya Toman Few people today do not know what the first iMac in history looked like. This apple computer has seen significant changes in terms of design and internal equipment during its existence. As part of the iMac's twenty-year existence, let's remember its beginnings.
Many people today agree that the era of Apple's dizzying growth and its move to the position of the most valuable company in the United States began precisely at the time when the very first iMac saw the light of day. Before that, Apple faced several crises and its position in the market was greatly threatened. The long-awaited and prayed-for change happened in 1997, when its co-founder Steve Jobs returned to the apple company and then again stood at its head. Less than a year later, Jobs introduced the world to a brand new Apple device: the iMac. The twentieth anniversary of its existence was also commemorated on Twitter by the current CEO of Apple, Tim Cook.
20 years ago today, Steve introduced the world to the iMac. It set Apple on a new course and forever changed the way people look at computers. pic.twitter.com/GbKno7YBHl
- Tim Cook (@tim_cook) May 6, 2018
The new computer from Apple already looked absolutely nothing like anything that users could see up to that time. At the then retail price of $1299, Apple was selling what Jobs himself described as an "incredibly futuristic device." "The whole thing is transparent, you can look into it. It's so cool,” Jobs exulted, also pointing out the handle placed on top of the all-in-one computer the size of a modern microwave oven. "By the way - this thing looks a lot better from the back than a lot of the others from the front," he said, taking a dig at the competition.
The iMac was a hit. In January 1999, less than a year after its debut, Apple's quarterly profit tripled, and the San Francisco Chronicle immediately attributed this success to skyrocketing demand for the new iMac. Its arrival also heralded the era of apple products with a small "i" in the name. In 2001, the iTunes service was launched, followed a little later by the first generation of the revolutionary iPod, the arrival of the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2010 have already managed to be indelibly written in the history of the technology industry. Today there is already a seventh generation of iMacs in the world, which does not resemble the first in the slightest. Have you had the opportunity to try working with one of the first iMacs? What impressed you most about them?
The worst was the round, absolutely non-ergonomic cape.