Apple turns 28. (But who cares, everyone knows Apple is going out of business, right?)

Apple (you know, that company everyone says is going out of business soon) turned 28 this week.

I've been hearing that Apple can't last for almost as long as I've owned a Mac. And I've owned a Mac since they came out in 1984 (got mine of February 29, 1984 in fact. Still have it too, and it still works.) It's gotten so ridiculous, a web site has been set up to track all the ludicrous "Apple Death Knell" stories. Fun (and funny) reading.

When I was moving to my current abode about 2.5 years back, I was going through a bunch of old Byte Magazines and flipped through an article about the 512k Mac upgrade....and even then (the article was from 1984 or maybe 85) they were running the old line that "Apple must do x, y and z or they won't survive."

Man, I'm getting tired of this. Talk about your "broken record" (sorry, I'm dating myself with that reference....I should have said "talk about your scratched CD")

Twenty eight years later (and incidentally, 20 for the Mac...this is the Mac's 20th birthday year) Apple and the Mac are still here, still selling millions of units a year.

Apple's not going to die anytime soon, Apple and Mac bashers. Deal with it! (And be thankful, because computing life would be a much more boring place without Apple and it's innovations.)