A response to my Apple love
I got a response from a great friend about my message last weekend. If you missed it, I talked a little bit about my love for Apple. If you’d like to listen to the message, you can click here. If after listening you feel inclined to purchase any Apple products click here.
Here’s the response I received.
I had to point this out… you had a “safe harbor” statement to the effect of “I know it wasn’t the first…” but your infinite Appleness chafed me slightly. Here’s the old shoebox phone I first “synced” with:
I bought it back in 2001 I think. Predated the original Palm/Handspring Treo 90 by a year or more. Still have it, too! It was basically a Palm device mashed up with a basic phone. If it wasn’t the first it was darn close.
All that said, I did take away a lot more from your message. 
Thanks for hearing me out, Apple Man.
While I agree that Apple didn’t invent the technology, they just have made it better and redefined a market place. They did not invent the digital music player, they just made the iPod the best on the market. I had 2 Creative nomads and stopped using them the day I got my first iPod because of size and iTunes. They did not invent the smart phone (I bought my first Smart phone in 2/2003 the Treo 300, 600, 650, 700 and 750) but they created the best (my opinion) smart phone on the market and with the app store they did nothing more than make it even better. I am waiting with excitement over the news this Wednesday and hope that they will once again change our perception of a device.