
I never liked the original iMac. I know, heresy on its 25th anniversary, but it always struck me as an oversized, candy-colored box, and today it's a long distance away from the best iMacs of the modern era.
When Steve Jobs, then interim CEO at Apple, introduced it on May 6, 1998, I didn’t pay much attention. I was an editor at Windows Magazine, after all, and Apple had shrunk to barely a blip on our radar.