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The record company has sued the computer company....

Yes, because Apple Records produce and sell music and now Apple Computers is doing the same via iTunes.

The record company has sued the computer company....

I hope we hear from Ptolemy V's lawyers soon.

"Janus"? "Frosting"? "Wolfpack"? "Hydra"? How about "Sixpack"? "Ides of Buster"? "Pigs in Space"? You're either a troll or an imbecile, I can't decide which. The codenames for Ubuntu are no more or less "weird" than they are for any other company, and all things considered, significantly less weird than many.

March 14th, 2002, Apple announced the release of Remote Desktop for OS X. http://www.theapplemuseum.com/index.php?id=58 Maybe not as early as 2001, but not as late as you make it out to be, either.

As other posts have noted, features like these are not the exclusive product of one mind, or one company. They are also not released overnight. Sometimes, a feature, or app, like this takes quite a while to make it through the lineup of suggested apps before it can even get to the beginning of being written. When that happens is a product of a company's "roadmap" of future products, as well as a strategic direction overall. Roadmaps also change over time in response to the market and where they see competitors going.

It is not always productive to play the "who got there first" game, regarding who may have "invented" a feature or product. The important thing to the industry is timing - XYZ company introduces product A - timing sucks, nobody sees a need for it - maybe it was badly implemented. Two years later, ABC company instroduces product B (a varient of A, but better impelmented, and better timed to meet the market's demand - and it takes off. The second company gets the credit. Why?

Better timing, better product, implementation, marketing and better at reading their customers' needs. Happens all the time.

Not everybody gets the credit they should. the principal of the fax was known, and a company started to sell a fax service between Paris and another big French city (I forget which one) in, I think, the 17th or 18th century. It failed, not because it didn't work but because nobody saw the need for the instantaneous transmission of data over long distances. Fast forward two or three centuries, and the market was ready when it was reintroduced in the mid to late 20th. But nobody remembers (almost) the name of the Scotish farmer that discoverd the principal that makes it work even today!

Life just ain't fair...

"For the pro-crowd they just need to stretch their pro-video and maybe throw in some eye candy like 32 inch displays or intel plasma display"

Although many people are familiar with the Macintosh TV and later models with integrated TV tuners, few people are aware that Apple did once trial a TV reciever with a small embedded version of Mac OS. See http://www.theapplemuseum.com/index.php?id=45 for details.

It was a miserable failure. But times have changed, and Apple are now very much in competition with Microsoft and Sony for control of the living room. It will be interesting to see what is announced at MacWorld.

Because I need to install Linux on an original All-In-One G3 (_right_ before the iMac, educational release only) for a server :) Can't do with OS X! Custom apps for Linux, especially Linux kernal extensions. PPC is a pretty powerful processor, clustering it with Linux is easier and less expensive than OS X. Uhh, and more :)

The same could be said about the Apple Newton Message Pad 2100. Not exactly a market sucess, but try to by one used and you'll still shell out more than $200 ($100 if it is broken)!

The problem with the cube was its position relative to the current line of Macs, and its relatively steep price ($1800 for the 450MHz version, $2300 for the 500MHz one - not including monitor).

That said, my last check on ebay showed these things still going for $500-$600. Not too bad for a silent, small form factor PC. I think the Hoojum Cubit3, packed with a GHz Via C3 (about equivalent to a Celeron 600MHz) would cost you about $1000, without much more performance.

The blueberry iMacs were replaced in the summer of 2000 with the indigo line of iMacs, that came in Indigo (obviously), Ruby, Sage, Snow, and Graphite.

I can't see your link about being EOL'd one year ago, but here's a link that it was discontinued in July of 2000.

Maybe you got them from some surplus or refurb shop.

You mean besides the Pippin?

I wonder why he only installed two Mac-OS? I mean, if you look at this list, he could have easily increased the count of OSs installed on his computer.
Or does the Mac ROM/Firmware somehow disallow the installation of older system software?

This this iPod/iTunes timeline and is pretty interesting.

I don't think this could possibly happen.

Back in 1981, Apple landed in legal trouble with "Apple Corps", the Beatles' record label. In November 1981, they agreed that Apple Computer could continue to do business under that name, so long as they didn't make any attempt to enter the music business.

Later, I believe around when System 7 came along, the Apple Corps lawyers got pissed off again because of the OS' new sound capabilities; the story (or maybe urban legend) goes that an Apple engineer renamed one of the alert sounds Sosumi, and told them it meant "lack of any musical qualities whatsoever" in Japanese.

So if the Apple Corps was upset about some cheesy System 7 alert sounds, imagine how they'd feel about Apple buying a record label. That is, if they're still around and if their agreement with Apple is still in effect.

If Apple Corps and their legal agreement are still potent, one would think that this would have prevented them from manufacturing the iPod and from developing their alleged music service as well. So it's likely that the Apple Corps stuff no longer matters. Still, interesting to think about.

You had a bit of bad luck there. Apple has not produced anything before or since which has sucked as much as the Powerbook 5300 series. They got severly burned over it from all quarters. Heh! An occasionally, so did customers.

The Apple II's mouse was the first mouse to ship with an Apple computer, but that was in 1983 when the mice for the Lisa and Mac were being created.

> Anyone who remembers computing in the early '80's should recognize that the industry wasn't going anywhere.
Obviously, you don't ;-) (just warning that I'm going to be harsh, but harsh in a friendly way!)
$5000 for an Apple 2?
1978: Apple II is $1295. 1979: Apple II+ is $1195. Maybe you're thinking the Apple III ($4340-$7800, yikes!)

> The only software is rudimentary databases and word processors.
Like visicalc, in 1978. Or appleworks, an integrated office suite.

> Games are less sophisticated than those on the Atari 2600. Monitors are monochrome.
Apple II was color and much better than the 2600. If you're talking early PC graphics (monochrome, CGA), yeah, they sucked. But it wasn't microsoft that improved them.

> Apple is enforcing a closed source policy which improves the quality of the machines, but hampers development.
Like publishing the schematics and ROM source code? Most of the demo code is written in listable basic, and code magazines (like nibble) flourish.

> It was the pairing of M$'s DOS with IBM PCs, and an open policy towards clones, that allowed the explosion of PCs seen in the mid-80's.
Did you read the article? IBM fought the clones vigourously... Compaq spent $1 million to make a clean-room bios.