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Macintosh's 1984 Debut

Posted by michael on from the $2495-cheap dept.

Stephen E. Jobs writes "SiliconValley.com is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Mac by republishing some of its coverage of the machine's 1984 launch. 'After two years of secrecy, brainstorming and sometimes zany company maneuvering, Apple Computer Inc. will unveil a new personal computer Jan. 24 that is the size of a stack of paper and, for about the same price, contains more power than the basic IBM PC.' That's how one writer described the Apple Macintosh in 1984. There's more at SiliconValley.com."

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  1. Re:Well, it took 20 years... by dfj225 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "it remains a tool for me, rather than a 'content delivery and licensing kiosk' like many of our Windows friends are ending up with."

    I think I would be careful about just assuming that Apple will never end up being a content delivery and licensing kiosk. Right now, Apple has a closer relationship to the music companies than any of the large PC companies. Windows has a very large selection of software, so it will always be possible to find software that doesn't follow this type of marketing. Although there is a lot of software for OS X, there is still not as much as windows, plus most apple users just stick w/ the default apps anyway.

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  2. Re:Mac Opinion by Photar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm telling you there is a definite sexual orientation correlation here.

    Not that mac users are gay, but they are at least much much more likely to be gay or metro-sexual.

    Not that there's anything wrong with that, but unless apple decides to go after the straight masses they're going to stay in about the same situation.

    That being said, its disturbing that macs are so prevalent in education, especially k-12.

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  3. Re:Market Share by p51d007 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And 20 years later, Apple still has the same percentage of market share........not much. They have (in my opinion) a superior product for the most part, but by keeping it proprietary, they pretty much killed it off. Such as Sony did with the betamax.

  4. Updating OS X Server by BoomerSooner · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    is a hell of a lot easier than keeping up with bsd/linux and all the associated packages (in my experience).

    Mac: Run Software Update, click Accept. It doesn't get much easier.