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Become a Six Colors member to read exclusive posts, get our weekly podcast, join our community, and more!The iMac spirit lives on in everything Apple does
Twenty-seven years ago this week, Steve Jobs took the stage at the Flint Center in Cupertino to unveil the first new product since his return to Apple: the original iMac.
The Apple of today would be nearly unrecognizable to the people of 1998, but Apple still sells an iMac. It’s literally the only product Apple sells today that it also sold back then. (MacBooks were PowerBooks, and Mac Pros were Power Macs back then.)
Of course, today’s iMac bears little resemblance to the original G3 iMac. But in keeping the name alive, Apple is also nodding to the unique spirit of the iMac, a product that helped turn around Apple’s fortunes and define the computers of the next three decades.