If you lived out in the boonies like I do, you would sometimes forget there's a whole another world out there. Let's face it. Life in a community of 40,000 or so people is much different from say, Chicago, New York City or San Francisco.
On a recent trip to New York City, the fact that I live in a small and isolated Midwest town really hit me between the eyes! As I rode in a taxi from a New York Airport I watched as we passed billboard after billboard. But one billboard caught my eye. It was a huge photograph of an iMac DV Special Edition. In addition to the "Think Different" slogan in the lower right of the billboard, the only words on the ad were "Super Model." There it was: The Big Apple in the Big Apple!
While I did not get a chance to do much sightseeing, the offices where I visited used lots of PCs, but Macs as well. During a field trip along numerous Manhattan streets, I strained to peer into office building windows. Yes, they were there. Macs were everywhere.
The night before I was scheduled to leave the city, I got the opportunity to walk to Rockefeller Center from the Hilton Towers where I was staying. As I strolled past downtown storefronts, something caught the corner of my eye. There they were, four colorful iMacs in the window of The Computer Experience. Having my trusty digital camera in hand, I managed to snap a quick picture (at left).
To top it off, on the return flight I picked up a copy of Business Week. There he was, Steve Jobs, recognized as one of the top CEOs of 1999 (see photo above).
All in all, it was a good to see Apple and Macs (and Steve Jobs for that matter) are making a big impact in big places -- not just Mid-Missouri!