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Apple is Going Back to School

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Apple is Going Back to School By Joseph Morin For well over five years now I have owned Apple products. Going back even further, the first computer I owned was an Apple Macintosh Classic. Yeah you know, the one with a handle that made it "portable" according to Apple. Since then I have owned newer Mac's, iPad's, and of course, iPhone's. Since Apple was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne a lot has happened with the company. There have been good, bad, and ugly things that have happened. Everything ranging from the revolutionary Apple 2 that brought computers to the mass market and the Newton that brought nothing to anyone. Recently though things have improved a great deal. Apple revolutionized mobile phones and changed an entire industry. Also the iPad put powerful computing into something the size of a book or magazine when only a few decades ago computers were much larger and were arguably capable of much less.
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The Evolution of Personal Computing and Gaming...From My Point of View

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The Evolution of Personal Computing and Gaming...From My Point of View By Joseph Morin    Twenty years ago if you would have told me that we would be using phones and tablets to do our everyday computing, I would have said no.  When I was in grade school we had computers, but they were honestly not good for doing much unless you really knew what you were doing.  They just weren’t powerful enough and the user interfaces were not useful or easy enough for the average user to make practical use of their computers.  When it comes to gaming, things have evolved a great deal.  From the first video game system in 1967 nicknamed the Brown Box invented by Ralph Baer.  To to Atari 2600.  To the Arcade machines.  To PC gaming becoming popular in the mid 90’s.  To the console war between Nintendo and Sega.  To the current war between Sony and Microsoft.  To the current emergence of mobile gaming on phones and tablets.  Games have gone from two lines hitting a dot around to beautiful gam
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