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The iMac turns 25


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On May 6, 1998, Apple launched its first iMac. Undoubtedly an event that revived a company that was quite touched by death and that if it had not hit the market with the revolutionary iMac, surely today all of us would carry an Android smartphone in our pocket.

An explosion of design and color that burst like an erupting volcano into the bland and boring personal computer market. A success by Steve Jobs and his team who no doubt helped save a failing Apple.

These days mark the 25th anniversary of the launch of a device, which along with the first iphone and the first iPad have marked the history of Apple. Without them, the giant with the bitten apple may not have existed now.

Apple introduced to the whole world at the beginning of May 1998 his revolutionary iMac. A new concept of personal computer, which did not begin to be sold until mid-August of the same year.

A computer that a priori did not have very professional specifications for the time, but it did have a design and an operating system that made it different from everything that existed on the market until then.

had a processor 3MHz PowerPC G233, 32 MB of RAM, a 4 GB hard drive, a built-in 15-inch monitor, and stereo speakers. But the most spectacular thing was undoubtedly the design of its colorful casing. Quite a revolution for the time.

And along with its design, Apple also inaugurated a new nomenclature for its devices. He iMac it was the company’s first product to incorporate the “i” as the first letter of the name. After the iMac, the famous iPhone, iPod, iPad, etc., etc. arose.

Most of us know the history of Apple from the last century. In 1985 the directors of the company “invited” Steve Jobs to leave the company, and so it was. And Apple plummeted. In such a way that in 1997 Jobs returned to try to save a company that he was on the brink of bankruptcy.

And he did it the following year thanks to his iMac. Thanks to its launch, Apple earned that year more than 400 million dollars. And that was only the beginning. From then on, the company’s growth was spectacular, until it became what Apple is now.

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