I have a sticker on my laptop that says: “I was a Mac user when Apple was doomed.” Back in the day, when Apple had a tiny marketshare, a small band of true believers and Never Windows users would make continuous pilgrimages to dank stores South of Market (before it was SOMA) where sweaty, bearded, heavy-breathing sales clerks would laud their expertise before deigning to sell us a computer product that often cost twice as much as the competition. And we loved it … much like people who bought and held Apple stock back then are loving today’s milestone as that little computer company catering to designers and geeks just became the first company to hit a $1trillion valuation. Of course, the turning point came with the introduction of the iPhone. Not everyone saw it right away. Steve Balmer explained: “There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.” Blackberry’s co-founder predicted, “In terms of a sort of a sea-change for BlackBerry, I would think that’s overstating it.” While those guys were particularly off the mark, it’s hard to imagine anyone understood back then how much the iPhone and its followers would change our world, for better and worse. But not as hard as it would have been for me and the other weirdos at that old school corner Mac store to imagine that our beloved little Cupertino Mac maker would be the subject of an article titled: Apple’s Trillion Dollar World.