That was a part of the problem, but the bottom line is that the price/performance/upgradability of the machine is what killed it.
You won't meet a bigger Mac fan than I am but I have to say, I told Steve Jobs this would fail back in 1998 when myself and a team of consultants met with him before MacWorld. It was a thing of pure beauty on a shelf in a store, but today you need to be functional also if you want to survive. The market today demands that you are reliable and expandable with strong networking capabilities, sadly the cube had none of those. The good news is that OSX finally gives Apple an OS to build on. Now they need to package that in a well built attractive machine, sell it at a fair price (Are you listening Steve?) and they will be back on top. Never count Steve Jobs out, the man has genius in him, he just needs to channel it properly.
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That was a part of the problem, but the bottom line is that the price/performance/upgradability of the machine is what killed it.
You won't meet a bigger Mac fan than I am but I have to say, I told Steve Jobs this would fail back in 1998 when myself and a team of consultants met with him before MacWorld. It was a thing of pure beauty on a shelf in a store, but today you need to be functional also if you want to survive. The market today demands that you are reliable and expandable with strong networking capabilities, sadly the cube had none of those. The good news is that OSX finally gives Apple an OS to build on. Now they need to package that in a well built attractive machine, sell it at a fair price (Are you listening Steve?) and they will be back on top. Never count Steve Jobs out, the man has genius in him, he just needs to channel it properly.
All the best,