earlier. The choice was highly symbolic, just like the first words that showed up on the computer’s screen: “hello (again)”, a reference to Macintosh’s original “hello”. Steve Jobs had put Apple back at the forefront of the consumer desktop scene, a market the company had invented.

The iMac proved one of Apple’s biggest hits, selling two million units in its first two years. But of course Steve Jobs didn’t stop there. Only seven months later, in January 1999, he made two product announcements at Macworld San Francisco. First was a brand new Power Mac G3 tower that was not only faster, but also featured a new, appealing design inspired by the original iMac. And second was that the iMac would now come in several colors, hence its internal

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