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What’s up everyone. This is something new for me to try out. A hobby of sorts I guess. I’m a 34 year old dude who works from home, is married, has kids, and dogs. A pretty typical life. This is an apple-centric blog, well, because I consider myself to be an Apple nerd. In life there are few things that tend to make us happy and for me its my family and Apple.
This blog will really be about Apple, how I used the products in my personal and work life, and looking at random Apple stuff as it happens, and newly/updated products as they are released.
What do I do for work?
I work from home as a Total Rewards Manager in Human Resources. I’m basically responsible for the Compensation and Benefits functions at my company. I’ve been in the space for 10 years. Honestly, I’m pretty happy this is the path my career took. And working from home 100% of the time is not a bad deal either ( I guess that is one positive that came out of the covid-era of life)
Why Apple?
Honestly, I’m not 100% too sure. Growing up my parents didn’t have a ton of money to throw at Apple products for me. I had an iPod growing up and that was it. So, for me, there was always an allure to their products. Mostly through the product designs, marketing, and they just simply always work and had a long lifespan. As I got older and had my own money I could allocate some of it to purchase my own Apple products. Something I try to do as often as I can. But, kids are expensive AF :).
I always had Windows based machines growing up and after a period of time they would just crap out. My college laptop was a Lenovo. It was fine…but that too crapped out. One of things I will touch on at some point is my Apple product ownership timeline. I think if I sit down and think about it I’ll be able to remember all of them.
Bye, for now
That wraps up this intro post. Looking forward to sharing more soon 🧑🏻💻.
iPhone Ownership History
9/7/24
My Apple Product Timeline: iPhone
I think the title sums up this post. Lets dive into what iPhonesI have owned…or as good as my memory allows me to remember 😂.
I want to make this a series of posts where I go through each product and look at what models I have owned over the years.
First up, iPhone.
Probably overall my favorite Apple product category. The first iPhone I ever owned was a White iPhone 4.
My next one would have been an iPhone 5 in Black, then iPhone 5C in blue, then a gold iPhone 5s.
Wow, I had a lot in the 5 series.
Next up, the 6-plus. This one was probably my most favorite iPhone. At this point I had my first big boy job in NYC and was in grad school at the same time. I would commute into Manhattan on NJ Transit everyday. I couldn’t afford a laptop but had the bigger iPhone. it was on this phone that I would type up all of my assignments in google docs and do as much of any papers I could while on the train. Everything I did was in google docs so when I got home I could easily access on my PC and then upload from there.
Now, i’ll just list the rest out
IPhone 7 (black), iPhone XS (gold), iphone XR (red), iphone 11(black), iPhone 14 Pro (space black), iPhone 15 (green)
Its crazy to look back at the first iPhone release all the way up to current day. It has come so far as a product and the impact it has had on daily life is mind boggling. Also makes you wonder where all the years have gone :(