GoKawiilThis story is part of 9to5mac’s series celebrating Apple’s 50th anniversary.
A lot of folks are going to find themselves thinking about a company today. That’s great, I’m one of them, but the best way to celebrate Apple and its contributions to society is to make something wonderful yourself. After all, that was what Steve Jobs believed.
To open the iPhone X event in 2017, the company used a recording of Steve talking about how making something wonderful was a way to express your appreciation to the rest of humanity. A few years ago, the Steve Jobs Archive even created a book titled Make Something Wonderful to inspire people to do their best work.
“There’s lots of ways to be, as a person. And some people express their deep appreciation in different ways. But one of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there. And you never meet the people. You never shake their hands. You never hear their story or tell yours. But somehow, in the act of making something with a great deal of care and love, something’s transmitted there. And it’s a way of expressing to the rest of our species our deep appreciation. So we need to be true to who we are and remember what’s really important to us.” Steve Jobs (2007)
Apple’s greatest contributions have arguably been to the arts. They may specialize in making products, but it’s what those products enable that really matters. Be it in music, television, illustration, publishing, you name it, Apple has made a mark on it. Better yet, Apple has enabled artists all around the world make their own marks on these fields.
So write a song, draw a picture, make a movie, build an app, draft a poem, start that novel, whatever your creative outlet is, use it today. Share it with us in the comments below or on your social media channel of choice tagging us @9to5mac. We want to see all the amazing things that you’re making with Apple products, whether you make a movie with Final Cut, paint a picture with your Apple Pencil, record a song with GarageBand, write a story in Pages, whatever that may be we, hope you’ll share it.
There’s something so special about bringing something new into existence and that’s always been the goal of Apple’s devices, to allow anyone to express themselves through art with technology.