Many people rejoiced at the recent opening of Apple’s first retail store in India. Mumbai’s Apple fans were overjoyed to learn that their city would be the first of many to have an Apple store nearby. As a result, a celebration was in order. Apple CEO Tim Cook was present at the event.
Customers queued outside the glass gates of the new Apple store in Bandra Kurla Complex on Tuesday morning. Tim Cook officially opened the doors to the store, allowing a long line of eager customers inside. The launch commemorates Apple’s 25th anniversary in India, giving the company yet another reason to celebrate at the event.
Videos and images from the launch have been circulating like wildfire on the internet. An image of a loyal customer bringing his 1987 Macintosh SE to surprise Tim Cook at the launch has gone insanely viral among the many that ended up on Twitter.
The internet was taken aback by not only the customer’s adorable gesture but also by the Apple CEO’s reaction to seeing the small computer cradled in the customer’s hands. Cook was visibly surprised and delighted when he first saw the 1987 Apple personal computer.
He gave a big reaction to the customer and had a quick conversation with the man who was holding the computer monitor. The pair then had a few photos taken in front of the Apple store; their interaction was captured on camera and quickly went viral on the internet.
The Apple fan waited in line for the store’s doors to open, along with his Macintosh. “It’s been a long journey,” the man told CNBC while standing in line. “I’m delighted that Apple is opening a store in India.”
The Macintosh computer, now popularly known by its pet name Mac, was released to the public in 1987 and was quickly discontinued in 1989. The computer was released concurrently with the Mac II. The computer arrived in a new platinum case and addressed the expansion issue.
The Macintosh SE had an additional bay for a floppy disk or a second internet hard drive in addition to an expansion slot. One of the first Apple Macs to have an Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) that allowed for connections to up to 16 input devices was the computer. It cost $2,898 at the time (more than Rs 2 lakhs) but was quickly replaced with a SE FDHD Macintosh after only two years.
