Greg Dachtler C/o Del Mar Middle School 105 Avenida Miraflores Tiburon, CA 94920 3/5/14 Apple 1 Infinite

Loop Cupertino, CA 95014 Dear Apple: My name is Greg Dachtler and my family and I are huge fans of Apple. Apple connects us to the web, Apple runs our television, Apple powers our phones, and Apple helps us learn at school. My dad worked at Apple a long time ago, testing software for the PowerBook 520c and PowerBook 540c. Whenever we go to the mall, my brother and I beg our parents to let us go to the Apple store to check out the new devices, and I am writing this on a MacBook Air provided by my school. Apple computer started in 1976 when Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created a small board of computer chips at a fraction of the cost of what other companies were selling them for, and called it the Apple I. Since then, Apple has created desktop computers, revolutionized laptops, made tablets, phones (good ones too), and even televisions. Every person at Del Mar Middle School was given the use of a MacBook Air for the entire time that they were at school to use for homework, classwork, and everything else. This has made it so much easier for us to do work in class and at home, because we are able to have access to an unlimited source of information. The first iPhone came out in 2007, and it was genius. A smartphone that could surf the web, had a touchscreen, and a camera?! The world was astounded. Everybody started gobbling them up like Cheerios, and still are today. Each version of the iPhone has been more advanced than the last, coming up with new technology and faster processers, culminating with the iPhone 5s, and Touch ID. In 2012, Reed Union School District bought over 500 MacBook Airs for all the students at Del Mar Middle School, and it has radically improved the way that we learn. Now, instead of making bulky portfolios that waste paper, we make websites and type all of our papers instead of writing them. Homework gets given online, and we turn in assignments on Edmodo, instead of by hand to the teacher.

Apple has changed the way that my school teaches, my family lives, and how I connect to others. It has changed how the world functions, and is still creating new advances today, on the grid, and off. What you can do is still up in the air, but what you have done is amazing. Sincerely,

Greg Dachtler