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Apple Chromes Its Logo
Val42K writes "Personally, I like the original logo, but Apple has decided to changed their familiar logo in the latest release of the OS X operating system. It has the same shape but has a chrome finish, like the robots of Hajime Sorayama." Does it look anything like the image we're using for this story, the one on the outside of most Apple hardware and software boxes? What am I missing?
Come on, that'll be the closest that most mac geeks will get to a giant crack.
A selection of some achievements, like (in no particular order): iPod, G5, iBook, mainstream acceptance of wireless technologies (something that still keeps x86 users in a computer equivalent of middle ages), mainstream acceptance of an Unix-based desktop system just proves you're wrong.
iPod. Wow. What a technological leap. There's how many other mp3 players out there, including quite a few that were out before the iPod ever hit the market, at a lower price? To be fair, they did innovate on that one. It costs more. It has firewire.
G5. Not really an Apple innovation. Also known as IBM's PPC 970 chip.
iBook. It's a laptop. Big deal.
Mainstream acceptance of wireless technologies. They threw in a 802.11 card (although it's been my experience that they just threw in an antenna and a proprietary slow in anything that isn't a laptop). They also pioneered appletalk, and we all know how prevalent that is these days.
Mainstream acceptance of a Unix-based desktop system. Oh, which to pick on, whether the estimated market share really means "mainstream" or whether OS X is really unix... I don't know their numbers right now (my brain's telling me ~5%), so I'll go with the latter. OS X is not unix (even if they did get the right to call it so from the Open Group). It's the Mach kernel. Not unix. It's the FreeBSD userland. Well, ok, that is unix. It's a bunch of proprietary crap piled on top with a retarded feature list and stupid marketing names. Ok, that's probably pretty unix-like too (from the balkanization of unix vendors). Doesn't change the fact that mainstream acceptance means that nobody really plays with the unix-like parts, they just list it off as a feature that they don't really understand.
But no, I don't see how you've proven me wrong. Jobs came back and saved the company by issueing the "Everything must be clad in the most god-awful plastic" directive. Which got enough people to shut up and buy, thus keeping the company afloat. Marketing is steering the ship over there, which is why we get stuff like "itunes: sort of like any other mp3 player, but from apple, thus better! shut up and buy!"
My biggest beef with apple is that they've lost the vision. It isn't about technology. It's about selling candy coated crap and getting everyone to believe it's the best thing ever. They need more people like Wozniak, and fewer like Jobs.
-transiit
I was an early adopter on the Diamond Rio. The stock 32MB was enough to hold a full cd (provided that you aren't a 'tard and oversampling), and I managed to get by with even lesser quality considering I was just putting it through the cassette deck in my car. The only thing that stopped me from using it was when somebody smashed my window and ran off with it.
As for pre-iPod mp3 players with larger capacity, I can't help but think of the Creative Nomad, which was at several GB (I think 6 or 10 in the early days. I never bought one) in capacity, and roughly the same form-factor as a portable cd player (i.e., the discman, which was the last "innovative" leap in portable music, created by Sony (not phillips) that's most often attributed to creating a market for portable music (the walkman) to begin with).
I'm not sure where Archos fits in, but my recollection is that they also beat Apple to the market with a reasonably sized, high-capacity mp3 player.
Doesn't really change the fact that Apple had neither the first small mp3 player, the first portable hard disk mp3 player, nor the first small AND hard disk mp3 player. They've just been marketing better.
You've been conned.
-transiit