The short version is I'm just a total Apple fanboy. I started programming Apples in seventh grade.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.
It's very hard to explain to people who don't program, but the object-oriented programming system made programming the Mac and iPhone so easy.
My favorite computer of all time? The Apple II that got me started, of course.
When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.
I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business School, and my very first assignment as a teaching assistant for an investments professor was to - he told me go down to this computer company in Cupertino called Apple.
With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
I love all things Apple and have done since 1996.
I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.
I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school.