Apple Celebrates 50th Anniversary in Seven Ways

[Ursadorable]

I let Apple know how I felt.

 

[johnrlaporta]

Where is the 50th Anniversary Macintosh (FAM)?

 

[svish]

Happy Birthday to Apple. Visited my nearest store today (on the 1st) and there was nothing different or special in store.

 

[Apple Fan 2008]

Cool to see them showing displays of older products, they don't tend to do that.

 

[tigerintank]

The number of 50th anniversary posts on MacRumors is insane

It does only come round every 50 years...

 

[HuskerNKS]

If I had frustrations I'd certainly first send feedback and press for changes. And not walk away as you suggest.

Again, I have zero issues/frustrations with Apple or my Apple products. They all work great and meet my needs. If they didn't, and if Apple didn't respond to my suggestions, I'd quickly go with an Apple competitor.

But as you say... you do you and stay frustrated.

Happens on every tech forum. The frustrated IT guy that thinks posting on every thread, with the same problem/view, will make a difference. Anyone that disagrees is a fanboy. There are much more productive ways to provide feedback. I promise you, Apple is not reading Macrumors.com.

Apple does however listen to legit complaints. I emailed Tim Cook a serious issue and his Executive Escalation team called and handled the issue. If you have real feedback, take real action, instead of just posting.

 

[ThomasJL]

Congrats on 50 years, but slapping ads throughout your products is not thinking different. It's the way an old tired and boring company led by bean counters think.

What Steve Jobs said about prioritizing profits over product quality:

What happened at Apple, to be honest, over the years was… the goal used to be to make the best computers in the world. And that was goal one. And goal two we got from Hewlett-Packard actually, which was “we have to make a profit.” Because if we don’t make a profit we can’t do goal one.

So, yeah, I mean we enjoyed making a profit, but the purpose of making a profit was so we can make the best computers in the world. Along the way somewhere those two got reversed. ‘The goal is to make a lot of money and well, if we have to make some good computers, well OK we’ll do that because we can make a lot of money doing that.’

And, it’s very subtle. It’s very subtle at first. But it turns out it’s everything. That one little subtle flip takes 5 years to see it, but that one little subtle flip in 5 years means everything. So we’ve put those things in their proper order again.

That is what Tim Cook and his supporters just don’t understand. They think huge profits always equals high-quality products.

Apple only had 35 years of innovation, not 50. The past 15 years has been copying the likes of Microsoft and other tasteless Silicon Valley money-first corporations.