Round 2 of Apple's Lost '1984' Series

webertk421 writes "The second set of lost 1984 videos has been released. This set again needs more mirrors (I still can't download the torrent files). According to the descriptions, the clips include Steve Jobs reciting some Dylan, showing the well known 1984 commercial, and 'Manuals,' another commercial that almost aired instead."

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Why is this such a big deal?

[green pizza]

Where are the videos of Michael Dell demonstrating the latest Dimension Desktop?

Where are the videos of Carly Fiorina showing off the latest HP LaserJet?

Better yet, where are the videos of Xerox demonstrating the $36,000 Alto?

Re:Why is this such a big deal?

[michaeldot]

Hard to tell, but are you being ironic, or moronic?

Dell Dimensions and HP LaserJets didn't put a dent in the universe.

This product did.

If nothing else, it started Microsoft scrambling to put something very similar on everyone's desktop... 1 billion computer users and growing.

No Mac...?

(A)bort (R)etry (F)ail

Re:Why is this such a big deal?

[JabberWokky]

No, however the release of the Mac is a milestone in the industry. So was the Altair IV, whose advertisements would get the same reception.

In a gun community, ads for the Winchester repeating rifle would garner similar interest (as it was a milestone product), or the first ads for the Model T in a car community.

Ford, Winchester and Apple are all for-profit companies, but they advanced the art of their fields greatly in a single leap by releasing products that redefined their industries. Of course it's interesting.

--
Evan

Everyone uses a Mac today!

[Anonymous Coward]

Haven't you noticed, we all use Macs today. Look at your Dell again, do you see those folder icons? Or how about the arrow cursor thats controlled by that mouse gizmo. The modern personal computer and its GUI was dreamed up at Stanford and MIT, prototyped at Xerox, refined and miniturized at Apple, and mass produced by Microsoft and Compaq and Dell.

Re:Dylan

[quigonn]

Well, me too, as "Dylan" in the Apple context is way more likely the language than anything else, since they invented it.

Re:Dylan

[g00z]

"When you say Dylan, he thinks your talking about Dylan Thomas...whoever he was. The man ain't got no culture"

Oh Paul Simon.. remember when you were cool? You know -- before you started letting Chevy Chase hang out in your music videos while you played a keytar?

Re:1984?

[multiplexo]

Interesting now that the PC clone world is filled with all manner of diversity and the Mac is only offered in very particular market driven configurations (i.e. lowest end mini, mid range all in one and high end tower).

The "diversity" in the PC clone world is skin deep, if even that. Let's look at the "diversity". OK, you do have two different companies making processors, AMD and Intel and they may now have compatible 64 bit architectures. You basically have two companies that make graphics chipsets, ATI and nVidia. You have a few companies making mobo chipsets but it basically boils down to Via, nVidia or Intel. You do have lots of shiny, colorful, craptacular cases and four or five companies making hard drives but for the most important component of the computer you basically have two main families of operating systems, Windoze versions and Linux distros (I don't mean to slight you BSD users, it's a great OS, but it's a drop in the bucket of the PC OS market).

So what does this "diversity" buy you? Well it buys you a lot of friggin headaches, not as many as it used to, but still a lot more than any advantages that it brings you. Windows does things that Linux doesn't do (it's still a better desktop) and Linux does things that Windows doesn't (it's still a better server and a lot more secure) but the diversity within Linux distros and within Windows versions isn't that great. Having the ability to run Slackware on an AMD64 processor on an Asus motherboard with a Via chipset and an ATI graphics card is not really all that different from having the ability to run Debian on an Intel Pentium 4 on an Abit motherboard with an nForce chipset and an nVidia video card. Is it more "diverse"? Yes it is. Does it really matter? No it doesn't.