Why I Have Been An Apple Fan For Years

If there is a name in the world today that represents style and technological advances more than any other, Apple is head and shoulders above the rest, and this is one of the key reasons that I've been a big fan of Apple products for many years. Form and function is everything when it comes to technology, and for a product to be truly successful it needs to have the right combination of looking good and being good at what it does, which sums up exactly what Apple is all about.

For someone like me who has been through the age of beige box computers, the iMac computer of the late 90s was the first computer to really do something innovative with the design of a home computer, and to make it in various colours with everything built in to the back of the monitor, it was a really attractive piece of kit which was simply so different from anything else that was on the market at the time.

Couple this with the series of iBooks, starting off with the clamshell style iBook which was also available with a bit more colour than the standard options, and in the late 90s there was no other manufacturer that could compete with the aesthetics of Apple computers. As Apple fans on Retronics.biz so frequently discuss, it also came with a redesigned operating system that just made it much more of a pleasure to actually use the computers, and the software that was used made it a very good all round package.

In the laptop field, from those first clamshell iBooks through the offerings that were put forward by Apple in the 00s, form almost became the foremost part of their laptop offerings, with the small beautifully formed candy white laptops being the ultimate in stylish computing on the go. Their focus on smaller, thinner and more attractive led Apple to make some of the most stylish laptops ever made, and why I still love the laptops even though they are now technologically lagging behind more modern counterparts.

Although I have been an Apple fan for a long time, there is one product which has rekindled my love affair with the Steve Jobs led company, and is at the present moment in time the ultimate combination of style, practicality and innovation. The iPhone is a device which has eclipsed all others in recent years, and it is this which has brought me right back into the Apple fold, and enjoying what is in my mind one of the greatest gadgets ever created. Cell phone, check. Music player, check. Portable gaming, check. PDA, check. It really does have something for everyone, and is as good to work with as it is for play.

For those who have been fans of computing for years, then most will either fall on the side of the Windows PC or the Apple Mac, and for me, I've been an Apple fan since I first started using computers, and recent innovations like the iPad have only reinforced that belief.