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A Look Back at Apple's 2003
Samvit writes "The end of the year is upon us, so it's naturally time for those retrospectives to start coming in. Ars Technica has a fantastic look back at Apple in 2003. 2003 was one of the biggest years for Apple, arguably the biggest in a very long time. Still, Ars is typically fair, so the author lays down not only the good in 2003, but also the bad and the ugly. There's a bit of prognostication going on too--a little something for everyone."
is up over 20% from may's @ $15 to $25
so iam sure they are pleased, lets hope they keep it going
Apple constantly pushes the envelope forward with newer features (FW 800, bluetooth, 17 inch laptop), and the rest of the pack try to clone their offerings in a Windows world.
Not only these products, but we have Apple to thank for Firewire, being the first to install built in networking in their computers, the first to include CD-ROM drives in computers, the first to include GUI in consumer computers, the first to include plug and play hardware configuration (remember setting all those damn switches when installing hardware cards?), the first to include color support in their computers, their first to......well, you get the idea. One could go on and on here, but I agree. If any company has been responsible for driving growth in the personal computing market, it has certainly been Apple.
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What browser were you using? I just looked in IE, and for some reason Hebrew is not listed under the character sets. Hebrew is selectable as a text encoding in Safari though. Would this be a problem with IE? Gee...I wonder why Apple made their own browser.
must have been 10.0, I've had no issues displaying any of the right to left languages on 10.2, and my friend used mellel to write in hebrew on 10.1.
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OS X claims to support:
That would be the default install of 10.3. One of the intall disks for Panther is basically full of the international options; lots of users turn it off when they do the install, to save space on their hard drives.
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The lack of Hebrew support is a well-known "bug" in IE (and apparently most of Microsoft's Mac products). The Register has been following it for some time, I found a good article here.
the first to include color support in their computers,
If you're talking about the Mac, then perhaps you've forgotten CGA and EGA. If you're talking about the Apple ][, then you're pretty much right: Apple was the first to build color capabilities into a complete, ready-to-use home computer-- but they were the first ones to build a complete, ready-to-use home computer, so I don't the the color capabilities are the significant part.
well, you can at least pick up the new "mini-ipod". only 65 pounds sterling... (source is here)
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Actually no, Longhorn burgers are not good. Nobody raised Longhorns because they were "good eatin!". They raised them because you could stick one out on a range and ignore it for most of it's life and it wouldn't die. They were tough and there were tons of them in the wild at a time when the east was clamoring for beef so all that needed to be done was to round them up and drive them to the railheads.
As soon as it became practical the Longhorn was replaced with better breeds that maybe required a little more maintenance but yielded much more (and better) beef.
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Apple may have been the first to include firewire, but the fact that no one uses it shows it is not innovative
So, I'm going to guess you don't have a MiniDV camera, huh?
1984: first to include 3.5" floppies
1998: first to ship a machine without a 3.5" floppy
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I also used to think that Apples were overpriced until I stopped comparing apples to oranges (pun intendend).
For example spec out a dual AMD system from penguin computing and a dual G5 system from Apple and you'll realize that the Apple is cheaper.
On the notebook side I recently bought a Powerbook G4 (12 inch) when compared to a similar Dell (don't forget to throw in the cost of a DVD-Burner and Bluetooth) The Powerbook is also less expensive.
I'm not sure about the low end pricing (you are probably able to find less expensive AMD systems, but remember the "EMac" is $799 with monitor included.)
A distressingly large number of iBook owners have suffered logic board failures.
Yes, indeed. My own iBook died 13 months after I purchased it -- just one month after the warranty expired. I brought it to my local Apple store. They told me that it would cost over $700 for a new logic board. At the time, laptops similar to mine were selling for just $900 on eBay.
I refused to pay for it. I told the manager that I'd replace it with a PC. That was no bullshit... I was really prepared to do exactly that. However, she gave me a phone number to call. I guess it was their pissed-off-customer hotline. After some discussion with the phone rep, he agreed to cut the price down to about the cost of the AppleCare plan. So I bought the repair.
The repair was nice and easy. Less than 72 hours after I put my iBook in the mail, I got it back. Still works great today -- over 15 months since it was fixed. With service like that, I almost forgot any bad words that I ever said about Apple.
Yes, i have this problem. It's not the battery update that caused it, but 10.3.2. The complaints for the 12" 867 powerbook's heat were so widespread that apple lowered the temperature at which the fans activate. you can fix this, if you like, by downloading Silent Night at version tracker. I personally don't mind, since my powerbook's never hot anymore and the battery doesn't seem to be affected by it much either (which to me is more important than noise).
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It's an Intel technology, but its uptake was pathetic until the iMac brought it to the masses.
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Actually OS X has much better international support than Windows. It works perfectly with Chinese out of the box, both for display and input. Some third party app (such as IE) may not have the correct UI for every language, but every single Apple I tried has Chinese interface, including Mail, Finder, Address Book, iMovie, iTunes, iCal, iChat AV, TextEdit, even Terminal.
Yes, you are forgetting several.
Rise: Apple II
Fall: Apple III
(Some doubted Apple could survive this flop.)
Rise: Apple IIe
Fall: Lisa
(I seem to recall the press having a field day with this one.)
Rise: Mac
Fall: Mac (sales stagnated after about 90 days.)
Massive bad times and predictions of Apple's demise: 1985 - 1987
Rise: Mac II
Good times!
Fall: Introduction of Windows 3.1
Massive predictions that it was the death of Apple.
Rise: PowerBooks introduced - Apple, a latecomer to the world of laptop computers takes it by storm and becomes #1 in portable computers
Fall: Lead up to and launch of Windows 95
Although Apple had its best year ever in 1995, the press started (continued) a drumbeat of noise about the Death of Apple.
1995 - 1997 Bad Times. After outsting Sculley, Apple's board struggles to find someone who can build Apple's marketshare - or else sell Apple to Sun or whoever. Eventually they succeed in sacrificing profits for Marketshare, bringing on a massive crisis.
1998 Steve Jobs returns, fires Apple's board, rebuilds company, correcting the massive mistake Apple made in 1985 by firing him and going with Sculley.
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Your post titled "Ars Technica calls iBook flaw Ugly" has been removed from Apple Discussions. Posts including (but not limited to) any of the following are not appropriate:
- Discussions of Apple policies and procedures (including pricing and repair policies)
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etc. etc. That's what I get for Thinking Differently. I wonder what Jobs would do if he were in my shoes?