ArtzDarkroom Loc: Near Disneyland-Orange County, California

Apple was founded April 1st, no joke.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Interesting.
I quit using Apple a long time ago .
Found it not good.
Tried it a couple of times later and found it was worse than the first time.

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

I didn’t use Apple products till about 6-8 months ago. Now I have an iPhone and an iPad. I like Apple, except for the fact that it’s a pain in the azz to retrieve a pass code or password IF forgotten.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

Yeah, I don't like the relationship Apple has with China and the circumstances in how it is manufactured but it is hard to beat Apple and Mac and the smooth integration of the Apple products in your home.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

If you know your device password it is pretty simple to open up your keychain. I don't know any of my passwords, I just let Mother Mac assign and store all my passwords.

Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

I don't know why it's been such a hassle for me. I could not remember my passcode for my ipad and also my account password and had to take it in to the Apple store to reset the ipad and they told me that I needed to call Apple tech support to reset the account password. maybe they just don't know what they are doing here.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

Well I am never out where my devices are in danger of being stolen so I just use pretty much the same passcodes on my computers and a 6 digit version of the same code on my iPhone. As far as your Apple.com password you should be able to reset after answering your security questions, they may send a text to your phone.

Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

Ya, not sure if it’s an Apple issue or I’m just Apple challenged. Here is the email I received from Apple.

The Aardvark Is Ready

I was born April 1st. No joke. Some on here say I am a joke though. Apple is like everything else. They make some groundbreaking innovative quality products and they make some complete junk.
I am still using a 2011 27" iMac. It's so old Apple won't even repair it anymore. Screen is as bright as the day I bought it. I love everything about it. It's all in one form, it's beautiful Quad HD screen( never saw the need for 4 or 5k on a 27"screen), it's quiet, fast enough for my photo processing needs.
I take that back. There is one thing about it I h**e. It's a PITA to customize anything except the RAM. I replaced the video card with one with more ram and it was not fun.
I also liked the fact that it had an optical drive so I could make CDs for my car. But since I've upgraded my head unit with one that has Apple Carplay, I no longer need that function.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

I have a 2012 in a closet downstairs, too good to throw away, I7 processor and 60gb ram. Replaced it with a 2022 model, should have gone with the M processor but like a dummy I went with I9 10 core.

JohnFrim Loc: Somewhere in the Great White North.

I had an Apple IIe at work in the early 1980s. We then got into the Macintosh line for our office desks, and I still have a "toaster Mac" in my basement. I have Macintosh IIsi and Iici computers and portrait monitors to go with them that were my first home computers. The folks at work then moved to PC, so I switched as well... just to have compatibility with home and office. In 2011 I went back to Apple products for home use, and we have 2 iMac 27" computers and an extra 27" monitor. We also have 3 MacBooks and an iPad 2 Air. Our phones were 5s models (now retired) and we just upgraded/updated to iPhone 14 models in December.

So yeah, I guess I am heavily into Apple products, and very pleased overall. Some things are a bit tricky to find and fiddle with, but most often there is really no need to get deep into the system level stuff. I particularly like the easy integration of almost everything via the cloud. I just wish it were less expensive to have lots of cloud storage.

ArtzDarkroom Loc: Near Disneyland-Orange County, California

I should be given a free Apple products for the rest of my life for all the Apple computers I had my principals buy from 1996 until 2010. We literally purchased 100's during the years I was the middle school's technology teacher. While my school district was getting into computers many of the school sites were purchasing Windows machines, 22 schools. Only a handful kept Apple machines, but when the IT people at district office said they'd only give tech support to Windows machines. The principal sent me and a aide to training for Apple repair. We set up and "fixed" all the Apple computers on site with their significant help to keep the campus online and printing. Our fix it time was much faster than district office, even thought our middle school had 60+ teachers and over 200 computers on campus at any one time. New computers came in regularly. From 1996 "Performas" to all the variations of Apple machines after that. I didn't have to actually pay for a computer until I retired in 2010. I've stayed with Apple since. My sk**ls have declined, but my affection for Apple products continues.

Before I became the tech guy, I discussed with my wife my desire to own a computer. She stopped that dead in the tracks when she ask me what I was going to do with it in 1990. "I don't know." $2000.00 was too much to spend for our family at that time on a teacher's salary. So... we both took a class on word processing, useful for both of us. She was in college getting her Special Ed. teaching credential. That's how we got our Apple IIe. That lead to me switching from teaching Science to Computer Literacy, before California developed a guide for Computer Literacy requirements. I was allowed to create my own curriculum, since there wasn't one.

More training, then I taught the students: AppleWorks, (the Apple version of MS Office, which I also taught later), PhotoShop 3, creating webpages, email, and other software.

I am currently on my wife's MacBook Air (circa 2010) which I revived after the Dell a friend loaned me died. My last machine was a MacBook Pro 15" She shops at Amazon on her phone where she also plays games. She doesn't need a computer anymore. I need a larger screen. lol

JohnFrim Loc: Somewhere in the Great White North.

T***h be told, my very first home computer was a SYM 1. It used a 6502 chip (same as the Apple IIe) and ran at 1 MHz. It had a hexadecimal keypad and six 7-segment LED displays. It had a total of 41 I/O lines for interfacing.

Programs were written in assembly language and then converted to machine code, all by hand. The program was entered via the HEX keypad one instruction at a time. Programs could be stored on a cassette tape player or burned into PROM (I had UV-erasables).

I wrote quite a few interesting programs, including the Mastermind guessing game, and a multi-stage temperature controller for freezing cattle embryo. The real challenge was being creative with the 6 LED display digits to provide a useful human interface for the various programs; thankfully each segment of each digit could be controlled independently.

My tour-de-force: I salvaged an old HP 9825 keyboard from work and wrote a program on the SYM to decode the key presses on the keyboard (there were two 14-pin sockets on the HP keyboard). I then mapped the keys to the complete set of assembly language instructions and printed out an overlay to label the keys. Finally, I wrote a program on the SYM that would convert the assembly language instructions as obtained from the key press on the HP keyboard and turn them into the appropriate machine code for the SYM, thus eliminating the manual assembly-to-machine-code conversion process. And... I have not used the thing since then!!!!!

dakotacheryl Loc: Near Mt Rushmore

Dear husband and I have Apple phones, Apple computers and I also have an iPad Mini.