It’s been three years since our group has really met again! Things have really changed in those three years. Three years ago, we connected to each other via IM; now, we’re all tweeting, be that on Twitter or the harmonious PRC variant, Weibo (Microblog). But Apple’s innovation revolution hasn’t changed a bit in these three years — even if our Great Two Steves, Jobs and Woz, aren’t at the helm any more.

Late at 20:00 on 26 August 2011, ten Mac users (six of them members from the old Beijing Macintosh User Group) spent nearly two hours tweeting and chatting with each other. They also shared their bit of history as the new beimac circle took over from the existing Beijing Macintosh User Group.

But people weren’t the only “things” there. Yes, “things”: iPods, iPads, iPhones and Macs took over, including 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th generation iPod classics and the first-generation iPod nano.

There weren’t any technical topics on the tech menu tonight, so it was meeting friends, old and new. When the main party finished, much of the congregation moved on over to the nearby Sanlitun Apple Store, China’s very first such store, to meet friends there or to try out the new Mac OS X Lion. We stayed there until the store closed — which kind of tells you how much we remain dedicated to the Apple community…