It’s been one year since the untimely passing of Steve Jobs. I have thought long and hard about how I will remember Steve Jobs, and I think that the best to do this is to remember the products he envisioned.
In my opinion, the two most important products that Apple has ever made are the Apple ][ and the first Macintosh (also known as the Macintosh 128K).
Why these two computers? Well, because the Apple ][ is the computer that made computer accessible to use for everyone. It could fit on your desk, and was affordable. It may have not been easy to use (there was no graphical interface in the first couple of iterations of the Apple ][, only text), but it was powerful. A lot of people bought an Apple ][ back in the day, and there was no shortage of software that was developed. Not to mention that VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet for a personal computer showed businesses the potential for computers as effective business tools. The Apple ][ was so popular that when Apple tried to replace it with the Apple III, it flopped. Nobody bought the Apple III, but everyone continued to buy and write software for the Apple ][. Without Steve Jobs, it’s doubtful that the Apple ][ would have ever reached its full potential. Even so, the Apple ][ wasn’t conceived from the ground-up by Steve Jobs alone, it was more Steve Wozniak’s (the other co-founder of Apple) project. The Macintosh, however, was conceived by Jobs himself.
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