iMac brought together Steve Jobs and Jonny Ive and set Apple on its course towards powerful, beautiful, accessible personal computing.
iMac. The `I` stood for internet, as well as individual, instructive, informational, and inspiring. Now, it might as well stand for iconic. No Mac — no computer — has been as instantly recognizable for as long as iMac. Announced on May 6, 1998, it shipped on August 15, 1998, and it set Apple up for the next 20 years.
It began with Steve Jobs and Jony Ive, a creative collaboration that became one of the most successful in history, and that led to iPod, iPhone, and iPad, and everything that came in between.
Apple made iMac but, in turn, iMac made Apple.
Apple had been down. Apple had been almost out. Then, Apple bought NeXT and not only got the operating system that would become OS X (now macOS), but got it's co-founder back, Steve Jobs.
Step by thoughtfully quadrant'ed step, Jobs sought to distill Apple's products into consumer and...
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