{"id":2336,"date":"2026-04-01T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:14:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:14:51","slug":"i-was-an-apple-guy-almost-from-the-start-here-are-my-standout-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/i-was-an-apple-guy-almost-from-the-start-here-are-my-standout-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"I was an Apple guy almost from the start \u2013 here are my standout devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/OG-Ben-with-OG-Macintosh-in-1984.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>This story is part of 9to5mac\u2019s series celebrating Apple\u2019s 50th anniversary.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Apple\u2019s 50th anniversary, it\u2019s somewhat worrying that I\u2019m old enough to have been an <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/aapl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple<\/a> guy almost from the very start. The above photo shows the OG me with the OG Macintosh in 1984. Oh, and a rotary-dial telephone just to complete the museum exhibit look.<\/p>\n<p>I never used an Apple I, but I did use an Apple II fairly extensively \u2013 and I\u2019ve been a <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/mac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mac<\/a> guy literally from day one. So of all the Apple products I\u2019ve used over the years, which ones stand out for me \u2026 ?<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"aapl,apple-watch,ipad,iphone,ipod,mac\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1045692\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/04\/01\/i-was-an-apple-guy-almost-from-the-start-here-are-my-standout-devices\/#more-1045692\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story is part of 9to5mac\u2019s series celebrating Apple\u2019s 50th anniversary. On Apple\u2019s 50th anniversary, it\u2019s somewhat worrying ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions\/2339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}