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Apple Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Steve Jobs Unveiling the iMac
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Yeah but, they have become generic for masses. What i think he and others mean is that apple had a following and loyal base that wpeoducts were designed and made for. In the end money talks right.
If you think about it, really all Apple products have been in a current state of refinement for a while now (for the iMac, since the sunflower, and for the Mac Pro, since the 2013 cheese grater) and so these slight dimensional changes are considered “redesigns”. Apple still has to change it’s manufacturing process to build these new chassis with all new dimensions, just as it requires Apple to change the manufacturing process to go from something like the iPad (4th generation) design to the iPad Air (current design). A refinement, yes, but these days these marginal design changes are as much we’ll get for the MacBook, iMac, and Mac mini lines.
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The first form-factor change was to take advantage of affordable, large LCD screens instead of CRTs.
The second change accommodated even larger screens, and more efficient electronics.
Once the whole computer is basically a rectangle whose size and shape is determined by the display and the minimum volume needed to keep the electronics cool, what is there to change?
Inconvenient truth: PC technology is maturing and not changing nearly as rapidly as it was 20 years ago.
The problem today is not so much lack of change, it is change for change’s sake, wrecking perfectly good, established, proven designs for the sake of novelty.
And then negligence took over....
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He does that literally.
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He does that literally.
Such a gorgeous machine. Even when I wasn't regularly using my Model B iMac, it still made a beautiful centerpiece. And the semi-translucent plastic kicked off a wave of similar products from phones to grills which also featured similar colors.
The mouse was interesting, but only useful if you were 2-years old. Otherwise, I immediately went for a multi-button Logitech mouse. USB was still fairly new, and even finding a compatible printer was limited (I believe the Epson 740 was one of the earliest models).
When I first picked mine up, the clerk said, "Your monitor is here." That's no monitor -- that's the entire computer!
A great little computer which I had for a decade before I donated it to someone who could make good use of it.
The mouse was interesting, but only useful if you were 2-years old. Otherwise, I immediately went for a multi-button Logitech mouse. USB was still fairly new, and even finding a compatible printer was limited (I believe the Epson 740 was one of the earliest models).
When I first picked mine up, the clerk said, "Your monitor is here." That's no monitor -- that's the entire computer!
A great little computer which I had for a decade before I donated it to someone who could make good use of it.
Steve Jobs favoured the iPad. He was the one talking about a post-PC world where PCs and Mac would be specialised computers only used by a few people.
My point is that 1) Macs are a gigantic business in and of themselves and that 2) people still very obviously need to use computers. And 3) you're trolling a thread about the design of the iMac to crow about how you get by on a tiny screen with a virtual keyboard. If you're happy working that way, I guess good for you, but it doesn't take a lot of imagination to realize that the vast majority of people still need actual computers to get their work done.
Pro desktop: iMac Pro
Pro notebook: Macbook Pro
Consumer desktop: iMac
Consumer notebook: Macbook
That leaves no room for the Mac Mini or the Mac Pro. Be careful with what you wish.
To me that sounds like change for the sake of change. Aside from reducing bezels how can the iMac really change that isn’t a gimmick or very niche (like Microsoft’s surface studio)?
I may not be a genius rocket scientist. Steve would LOVE that Apple is the largest company in the world, has the best ecosystem, is insanely great, has the most profit than anybody despite all those other things, and that his wife owns almost more of Disney than anyone. WWSD?
BTW Warren Buffet said that despite AAPL's market cap their entire product lineup fits on his dining room table, unlike virtually any of his companies.
Steve would LOVE that Apple is the largest company in the world, has the best ecosystem, is insanely great, has the most profit than anybody despite all those other things, and that his wife owns almost more of Disney than anyone. WWSD?BTW Warren Buffet said that despite AAPL's market cap their entire product lineup fits on his dining room table, unlike virtually any of his companies.
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Really? I'm trolling? I think the million negative comments that inevitably pop up every time macrumors tries to post a positive article are more akin to trolling. This is a site for Apple fans, not Apple bashers.
Stop being so damn positive, people here seem to hate that.I may not be a genius rocket scientist.
Loved my first eMac, a spiritual successor to the 1998 iMac. I wouldn't have got a Mac without the iMac.
I was still using a Mac SE/30 bought in 1989 when I saw the iMac. The SE/30 had served me very well when I was writing HyperCard stacks and screenplays, but it was done once the Internet happened. It was black and white only, with grays approximated by dithering. Hook it up to the Internet, and you could only use text-based programs, like newsgroups and such. I had spent hundreds of dollars to get the ram up to its max, which I can’t remember, but it would be laughable. Why had I stayed with it? With a hard drive— 40MB— and a carrying case, it was about $3500. So then this beautiful color screen, translucent body, with a 14” screen, came in around $1200. A week later they delivered an iMac, which I’ve had— except for a while with G4 and G5 towers— in four different versions, the latest being a late 2015 Retina model with gorgeous 27” screen.
It's one thing to criticize, but this site has turned into a perpetual whine fest. The constant negativity is just annoying at this point. Seems that some people here do it just to seem "cool" and rack up the thumbs up.