Tiger Winner: Chris Howard

by Hadley Stern Apr 30, 2005

Apple Matters is pleased to award Chris Howard a free copy of Apple’s newest operating system, Tiger. Chris is a reader from Australia.

All of the entries were fantastic and it was hard to chose. We chose Chris’s because it was well-written and captured the essence of why Apple is such a revolutionary company. Enjoy Tiger, Chris! It’s on its way.

The most significant Apple OS was the original Mac OS.  This is the one that changed the world.  If the original Mac ran a character based OS, no one would have given it much attention.

As a 20 year old with a keen interest in computers, the original Mac OS impacted me so much, that for 19 years I longed for a Mac (until circumstances finally allowed). I longed for that OS that could make my computer my companion.

When I watched that recently revealed video of Steve Jobs launching that first Mac with its Mac OS, I got goosebumps watching what it could do. I am still impressed.  Because I was around in 1984, and I knew what computers were doing.  I knew what I wished computers could do. And that first Mac OS, excited me because I could see the light at the end of the tunnel. I could see that someone else that could make a difference, shared my same hope for computer OSes.

That’s how it affected me, and history shows, that’s how it affected the world, as it turned the computer industry on its head, with IBM, HP and Microsoft among others coming out with (poor) imitations.

Mac OS wasn’t the first GUI OS, but it was the one that changed the world.

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  • Related “how I became a Mac user” story… not as sophisticated a commentary, but relevant anyway as far as waiting almost 2 decades to buy a first Mac:

    http://homepage.mac.com/mac.zooks/

    Just for fun, really, as I knew nothing about computers in 1984.

    *Also shame on me for not noticing the contest until the winner was announced*  :-D

    MacSmiley had this to say on May 01, 2005 Posts: 9

  • Ooops.. let’s try that again.  Here’s the complete link:

    http://homepage.mac.com/mac.zooks/Musings/Personal12.html

    MacSmiley had this to say on May 01, 2005 Posts: 9

  • Thanks for the link, MacSmiley. And stay tuned, there will be more contests soon.

    Hadley Stern had this to say on May 01, 2005 Posts: 114

  • Thanks AppleMatters for running this. I was really surprised and chuffed.  Now I am hanging to get my mitts on Tiger.

    - Spotlight is going to save me heaps of time;
    - the Parental Controls I’m really keen to implement;
    - and the other feature I’m particularly excited about is the built-in dictionary and thesaurus - which round out nicely with the already built-in spell checker.

    And that’s just the beginning!  With scalable cursors, always on VPN, AI battery monitoring, Safari being able to send RSS links to my RSS reader, the improved .Mac sync, upgraded Mail, iCal and Adddress Book - I’m real excited!

    Thanks again Hadley.

    Chris Howard had this to say on May 01, 2005 Posts: 1209
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