Watch Steve Jobs launch the computer that put Apple on track to becoming the world's most valuable public company
05/14/2018
- 20 years ago, when Steve Jobs returned to Apple, the company was in rough shape.
- One computer, the iMac, put Apple back on track.
- Current Apple CEO Tim Cook shared a video from that launch over the weekend.
Apple CEO Tim Cook was in the mood to reminisce this weekend, according to his tweets. On Saturday, he posted a 20-year-old video of late Apple founder Steve Jobs introducing the iMac in 1998. "You gotta see this thing in person, but I'll do the best I can with video. This is iMac, the whole thing is translucent, you can see into it. It's so cool. We've got stereo speakers on the front, we've got infrared right here, we've got the CD-ROM drive right in the middle, we've got dual stereo headphone jacks. We got the coolest mouse on the planet right here. Come on around. All of the connectors are inside one beautiful little door right here. Around the back, we've got a really great handle here. The back of this thing looks better than the front of the other guys, by the way." The iMac, which started at $1299, is one of the most important products in Apple history. When it was unveiled in May 1998, it was one of the first computers that really didn't look like a computer — it sort of looked like a TV from the future.