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Macintosh's 1984 Debut
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."
Who cares? Amiga had it all over the mac, at every point in time. not only was the Amiga a better computer, but the Amiga could run ALL mac software NATIVELY, and FASTer than the Mac to boot!
In fact, the amiga, to this day, is the ONLY computer that can run Mac software on a 68060, the FASTEST 680x0 CPU ever made, which was never even available for the Mac!
Ever looked at the price of a mac?
Thats nice, you're probably to ugly to have a wife who has kids who have grandchildren who could probably use the money. so nevermind
Haven't you heard? The Mac's been dying since 1984.
"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.
SIGFAULT
The 1984 ad was Apple's most successful ever -- shame then, that Job's is currently selling out the computer user by pioneering DRM (the very essence of Orwellian control) and keeping the pigopolist RIAA in business by handing over 99% of the money from sales to them. Asshole.
Sigh. I wasn't impressed by 20 years of 1982, and I'm not impressed with 20 years of Mac.
But hey, as long as we can be rabid about something, why not overpriced grandma style computing equipment?
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.
He who knows not and knows he knows not is a wise man. He who knows not and knows not he knows not is a fool.
And now Apple can't make a battery that lasts longer than 18 months.
It's amazing how Apple's corporate culture has changed so significantly.
-- You see, there would be these conclusions that you could jump to
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.
Perhaps if you stayed off Slashdot we'd all be better off
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.
The only thing you care about is the image that Apple represents in your mind. It's as shallow as that. Apple fanatics are the type of people who bring their iMacs to Starbucks in the hopes that someone will notice that they're using an Apple computer. They also believe that Apple cares about them individually.
Anyone deconstructing the image you have of yourselves is attacked. Because after all, you guys care about protecting the image.
Of course you'd rather be around fellow fanatics. That's indicative of the cult mentatlity.
-- You see, there would be these conclusions that you could jump to