One argument is that Apple found designs that work and are sticking with them. Another is that they just have lost their drive to try bold new ideas as often. Maybe a combination of the two?
I was adding my entry to the 'Your First Mac' page and I noticed that the top 5 Macs are from the 80's. I get the impression people are just clicking the first Macs on the screen instead of scrolling to their actual first Mac.
My FIRST portable computer -
http://oldcomputers.net/compaqi.html
At 28 pounds, it was something to behold. It ran Lotus 1-2-3.
Happy birthday Mac. I can't believe I've been a Mac user for 30 years![]()
Macintosh timeline...
I am surprised it shows people were using "Internet & Email" as far back as 1989...
I thought the same thing!! Internet was created in 1989, and didn't really gain traction until 1995 with AOL.
To be fair the worlds very first web server was developed on a NEXT Computer, so not quite a Mac but became the platform for all future mac development post 2000's era.
What an awful, awful, awful, awful video.
It looks and sounds like some kind of generic, corporate marketing nonsense. And who cares about a bunch of pretentious ****s going on about the importance of the Mac to their work and creativity? What is that? Gah! That's the exact opposite of what I thought was so cool about the Mac when I first saw it--that it allowed people not halfway up their own backside to put the computer to work. And to have fun doing it.
Moby? Really, Apple?
Sadly, the site appears to focus on these same people and not on the machines. I'd preferred to have seen a gallery of Macs over the years, interviews with the people who made them, not glorifying these self-absorbed types.
Wow, what a complete and utter miss on the part of Apple. This makes the Mac look staid and boring.
Macintosh timeline...
I am surprised it shows people were using "Internet & Email" as far back as 1989...
I thought the same thing!! Internet was created in 1989, and didn't really gain traction until 1995 with AOL.
The "internet" was developed in the late 60s by DARPA. There was no web, but there was certainly email, newsgroups, etc. At first it was defense bases, then defense contractors, then companies and universities. It was largely this way until the late 80s.
In parallel people used modems to access local bulletin board systems by phone modems, and over time those BBSs networked together to form larger systems.
Then came the service providers -- Compuserve (I think this was first and was created for stock quotes in the late 70s), AOL, Prodigy, etc.
Then ISPs popped up for getting on the real internet.
My recollection is the first web server and browser were created in 1992 at UNC and that became Netscape.
It [..] was the only black Macintosh desktop until the introduction of the new Mac Pro.
if apple ever wanted to rebrand the apple logo, this would be a great start.