If Tim Cook had been the CEO when the iPod was released, it would have 500mb storage or something like that, and the same price. And underpowered hardware.
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If Tim Cook had been the CEO when the iPod was released, it would have 500mb storage or something like that, and the same price. And underpowered hardware.
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And most people would cheer here anyway because it has better user experience (tm).
Agree with your comments totally! Many people keep saying that Apple is going downhill but this forum has archives and anyone who is having doubts go back to posts from 09, 07 or 05 and read the comments. People were still saying 'Apple is doomed' - even then.
Happy Birthday Apple, it's not all doom and gloom
That was an awesome and positive post! My girlfriend used to work at Apple in the early 80's (pre Macintosh). She started bringing home computers and I did not really get it at first. Then I needed to organize some info using an Apple in 1987. I sucked at typing and used the old hunt and peck method. In 92, I start an event planning company in the Silicon Valley (Too Much Fun Club). I really relied on a computer for proposals and contacts. Macs came to the rescue. We got connected to the internet in 97 and originally had a clone and for a while. Finally a laptop in 99 and when my son saw it he ran over and coffee spilled on the keyboard. Dead. Fast forward to today and we have many Macs, laptops, phones, iPads and iPods. I love it! Recently, I lost a hard drive on my desktop. 4 years old. Took it in and they replaced the HD. Took it home, hooked it up to Time Machine and voila, my computer is flawlessly back to it's original form with all my files and music just before the crash. Very impressed. Glad I backed up. I have 1000 playlists that I donot want to lose. Bottom line, I love being a Mac user and all that goes with it. RIP Steve and long live Apple, Inc.
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I have also been using my laptops for DJing at these events since about 99. First using Sound Jam and now Megaseg. The company Sound Jam, was purchased by Apple and they created iTunes.
Because it's about a company not a specific individual.
From a 99pi podcast episode:
http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-53-the-xanadu-effect/
Needless to say, I am awaiting anxiously to see if the Xanadu effect applies here, to the building of Apple's giant and elaborate new spaceship campus.
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We all are.
But if you don't mind me asking, what gift from Apple would you most accept?
Apple was great and then it wasn't. The "wasn't" came after Jobs first exit. Now, with Tim Cook at the helm and Jobs gone forever, the pipeline is running dry at Apple once again. The latest iPhone and iPad releases are, to say the least, a bit dreary. Without Jobs' vision, it looks like Apple will lose course once again. I just feel sorry for all of the Apple followers. What or who will they worship next?
Apple, after 40 years seems to be out of ideas. As Bill Gates once said, "success is a lousy teacher." Just look at FaceTime and where it is at after all these years. Now look at Snapchat as updated recently. 'Nuff said. (Maybe Apple will re-emerge with Mr Forstall at the helm in 15 years and start a *fresh* cycle.)
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Apple is renting space all around the valley, this new place doesn't even cover those needs, so not sure how there would be a Xanadu effect. The Campus was in fact designed when Apple was 1/10 the size it is now, so Apple would have to go downhill a whole lot for this campus to not be useful.
There are plenty of companies that built headquarters and where successful for decades; I smell confirmation biases.
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Agree with your comments totally! Many people keep saying that Apple is going downhill but this forum has archives and anyone who is having doubts go back to posts from 09, 07 or 05 and read the comments. People were still saying 'Apple is doomed' - even then.
Happy Birthday Apple, it's not all doom and gloom
People were saying Apple was doomed when Jobs came back and even after, there were some not so good year pre Iphone.
Mariel Boatlift. All those boats that headed to Cuba had to dump their ballast to on board all those Cuban refugees headed to Miami!
(it doesn't need to make sense, it's just funny)
So Cuba got and Apple II and Miami got a bunch of Scarface?
Tienes un hijo de gallego que lleva toda su vida dando por culo en Cuba y no habéis hecho nada...
Yeah, those were really special years. It was the time when Apple finally got the timing just right with new, desirable products, really went main$tream and benefited accordingly. Now, Tim and Co are trying everything to keep the party going for a few more years, including the dubious choice to build a car.
Good quick PR piece. Love how they crossed out the Newton.
Apple, co-founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976, celebrates its 40th anniversary today.
Last night, the company hung up a pirate flag at its One Infinite Loop campus to pay homage to the Jobs-led team that worked on the original Macintosh, which was viewed as rebellious at a time when Apple was focusing on the Lisa.
From near-bankruptcy to becoming the world's most valuable public company, Apple has been through a series of highs and lows over the past four decades.
Apple's history is vast, but the timeline below provides a basic overview of some of the company's important moments over the years.
Apple Timeline
1976 - Apple's history begins in the garage of Steve Jobs' childhood home in Los Altos, California, where Steve Wozniak and Jobs tested -- but designed elsewhere -- the first Apple I computers, which they later introduced at the Homebrew Computer Club. The Byte Shop places 50 orders. The computer later sells for $666.66.
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Why do all those threads always have to at least partially degenerate into "Steve would never allow X and Cook is a bean counter without a vision"...
TL;DR below: my journey through the world of IT always had Apple in it – and it was, and remains special to me.
I'm 38, turning 39 this year. At the age of about 8-10 I was a "theoretical nerd" – communist Poland didn't really make it easy to own a computer. I bought this monthly magazine, Mikroklan, which was sort of hi-end magazine, printed on very expensive paper, and it featured Macs at the time when C64, Atari 800 XL etc. ruled the Polish computer market. (I love that signature one user here has, "ZX Spectrum 48, currently saving for a C64...) I wanted a Mac since I saw it in the magazine (I have no idea what exactly I saw, probably the 128K). It was so special compared to everything else. I had an Atari 65 XE and it was great but I wanted a Mac.
First time I actually got to work on a Mac was in 1999, when I started as an assistant to a pretty famous Polish graphic designer who was also a professor at Academy of Fine Arts. He had the beige Power Mac G3. Later we got the Blue & White one. I loved them so much. There was absolutely no way I could afford one – I learned a lot at this job but I got paid peanuts. But it was one of the reasons I loved that job even though the guy treated me like a vaguely trained donkey a lot – "take those ZIP disks and get them to the printer and FAST because you also have to take those proofs and take them to a client AND you have to make sure my cat's not peeing on the floor again..." I've learned 3/4 of what I know about design there. At the end I was doing the designs (the guy couldn't understand Web and didn't know how to design for a medium that can be scaled however the user likes and doesn't keep fixed size like paper does). My last computer there was one of the first iMacs, and then I went to work elsewhere and I had Windows ME. You can imagine how thrilled I was to work with Windows ME every day!
In 2006 I moved to Amsterdam to work as a main designer of a large company and they had the white iMac with Intel for me. It had a lot of teething problems and when after a month I got one of the perks – possibility to buy a computer – I went with Windows. Within a few months the OS updates made the white iMac perfectly stable and I had to deal with Windows for three bloody years. I ended up replacing some parts and making it into a Hackintosh but I wanted the real thing and when 2009 arrived – we got computers every three years – I added to the €1250 allowance and got a 27" unibody. It was bliss. I used this computer until I broke it in 2015 by trying to remove the smudges inside the display. I also broke a Macbook (can't remember which one) by putting it on the microwave while cooking and then discovering this wasn't a good idea – a CD got stuck and I couldn't remove it, and every time I started iTunes it would try to rip it again and the CD drive was LOUD. When I tried to remove the CD drive using an online guide I didn't manage to put the computer together back correctly. Boo.
Currently I have an iBook G4 (don't use it but I like owning it), Air 2015, iMac 2011, a high-end Hackintosh and I am very tempted to get the new Macbook IF they do something with that keyboard (not going to happen). I used Windows, Linux and Chrome OS, but always went back to Mac OS. I had two iPads, 2 and 3 models, three iPhones, three iPods. Watching the company grow and evolve has been my "hobby" since I was salivating over the fridge Mac as a kid. One of the reasons I take it personally when they solder everything and put spinner drives in high-end computers or duck up Apple Music is that to me, Apple is not "a company", it's something I wanted to have a part of since I was a kid. I may not be in the market for an iPad or Apple Watch but it doesn't stop me from reading obsessively about them. Linux was fun because I had to work on it a lot to get it to do what I wanted, but ultimately it was just PITA. Windows... well... we know what Windows is. Chrome OS lasted half an hour on my Chromebook until I replaced it with Linux and then spent half of the time fixing it. The only time I truly hated an Apple product was when the 2009 iMac had dirt inside the panel and it couldn't be removed.
I wouldn't buy an iMac these days. The config I would want is WAY too expensive. I bought a 13" Air instead and I love it. Finally I have a laptop that Just Works and with Black Friday sales I got it at a price I consider acceptable. Apple evolved and grew and so did I. My purple 4th gen iPod Mini still works like a champ, battery is still good and because it has no clue what an iCloud is I have zero problems syncing music to it. Phone and tablet-wise I moved to Android, and I am very happy, but I will never stop reading about iPhones. When people throw out phrases like "oh yeah you don't like [thing] about iPhone/iPad/iMac? go get a Samsung/Dell!!!" I chuckle. I love that MacDailyNews always refers to Scheissung as "the beleaguered Samsung" – S3 was the worst phone I ever owned and I don't forgive spontaneously bricking phones or ones that need a piece of paper for the SD card to work properly. I'm a Sony boy these days but Sony updates or new products don't excite me the way iPad Pro does – even though I have no intention of buying one. I'm always willing to be converted back. If Apple put widgets on home screen I'd probably own an iPhone by now.
I loved the "40 Years of Apple" animation with Newton getting scratched out very quick. I am not a fan of the €200 RAM updates or Fusion drives costing a kidney. But I can't imagine not caring about Apple – in a way I never felt about any other company. Because Apple is special, even with Ive flattening everything and making it white and Cook raising profit margins to incredible heights. In 20 years I will be here writing a post about Apple's 60th anniversary (or thinking the post, or moving my eyes to create it, or using electromagnetic waves and magic Pencil 20.0 to teleport it to the forum...) To me, Google is necessary evil, Microsoft is unnecessary evil, Samsung is a company that I like to see failing again and again (although the S7 is kinda purdy... but I can't imagine ever buying a Samsung again). I don't care about smartwatches but the only one I like reading about is the Apple one. It's like having this really rich friend who is really cool and makes money in ways that I don't necessarily approve of but simultaneously admire him and want to learn from him.
*clinking a champagne glass against the screen of my Air* Live long and prosper Apple, and keep on exciting me.
TL;DR below: my journey through the world of IT always had Apple in it – and it was, and remains special to me.
I'm 38, turning 39 this year. At the age of about 8-10 I was a "theoretical nerd" – communist Poland didn't really make it easy to own a computer. I bought this monthly magazine, Mikroklan, which was sort of hi-end magazine, printed on very expensive paper, and it featured Macs at the time when C64, Atari 800 XL etc. ruled the Polish computer market. (I love that signature one user here has, "ZX Spectrum 48, currently saving for a C64...) I wanted a Mac since I saw it in the magazine (I have no idea what exactly I saw, probably the 128K). It was so special compared to everything else. I had an Atari 65 XE and it was great but I wanted a Mac.
First time I actually got to work on a Mac was in 1999, when I started as an assistant to a pretty famous Polish graphic designer who was also a professor at Academy of Fine Arts. He had the beige Power Mac G3. Later we got the Blue & White one. I loved them so much. There was absolutely no way I could afford one – I learned a lot at this job but I got paid peanuts. But it was one of the reasons I loved that job even though the guy treated me like a vaguely trained donkey a lot – "take those ZIP disks and get them to the printer and FAST because you also have to take those proofs and take them to a client AND you have to make sure my cat's not peeing on the floor again..." I've learned 3/4 of what I know about design there. At the end I was doing the designs (the guy couldn't understand Web and didn't know how to design for a medium that can be scaled however the user likes and doesn't keep fixed size like paper does). My last computer there was one of the first iMacs, and then I went to work elsewhere and I had Windows ME. You can imagine how thrilled I was to work with Windows ME every day!
In 2006 I moved to Amsterdam to work as a main designer of a large company and they had the white iMac with Intel for me. It had a lot of teething problems and when after a month I got one of the perks – possibility to buy a computer – I went with Windows. Within a few months the OS updates made the white iMac perfectly stable and I had to deal with Windows for three bloody years. I ended up replacing some parts and making it into a Hackintosh but I wanted the real thing and when 2009 arrived – we got computers every three years – I added to the €1250 allowance and got a 27" unibody. It was bliss. I used this computer until I broke it in 2015 by trying to remove the smudges inside the display. I also broke a Macbook (can't remember which one) by putting it on the microwave while cooking and then discovering this wasn't a good idea – a CD got stuck and I couldn't remove it, and every time I started iTunes it would try to rip it again and the CD drive was LOUD. When I tried to remove the CD drive using an online guide I didn't manage to put the computer together back correctly. Boo.
Currently I have an iBook G4 (don't use it but I like owning it), Air 2015, iMac 2011, a high-end Hackintosh and I am very tempted to get the new Macbook IF they do something with that keyboard (not going to happen). I used Windows, Linux and Chrome OS, but always went back to Mac OS. I had two iPads, 2 and 3 models, three iPhones, three iPods. Watching the company grow and evolve has been my "hobby" since I was salivating over the fridge Mac as a kid. One of the reasons I take it personally when they solder everything and put spinner drives in high-end computers or duck up Apple Music is that to me, Apple is not "a company", it's something I wanted to have a part of since I was a kid. I may not be in the market for an iPad or Apple Watch but it doesn't stop me from reading obsessively about them. Linux was fun because I had to work on it a lot to get it to do what I wanted, but ultimately it was just PITA. Windows... well... we know what Windows is. Chrome OS lasted half an hour on my Chromebook until I replaced it with Linux and then spent half of the time fixing it. The only time I truly hated an Apple product was when the 2009 iMac had dirt inside the panel and it couldn't be removed.
I wouldn't buy an iMac these days. The config I would want is WAY too expensive. I bought a 13" Air instead and I love it. Finally I have a laptop that Just Works and with Black Friday sales I got it at a price I consider acceptable. Apple evolved and grew and so did I. My purple 4th gen iPod Mini still works like a champ, battery is still good and because it has no clue what an iCloud is I have zero problems syncing music to it. Phone and tablet-wise I moved to Android, and I am very happy, but I will never stop reading about iPhones. When people throw out phrases like "oh yeah you don't like [thing] about iPhone/iPad/iMac? go get a Samsung/Dell!!!" I chuckle. I love that MacDailyNews always refers to Scheissung as "the beleaguered Samsung" – S3 was the worst phone I ever owned and I don't forgive spontaneously bricking phones or ones that need a piece of paper for the SD card to work properly. I'm a Sony boy these days but Sony updates or new products don't excite me the way iPad Pro does – even though I have no intention of buying one. I'm always willing to be converted back. If Apple put widgets on home screen I'd probably own an iPhone by now.
I loved the "40 Years of Apple" animation with Newton getting scratched out very quick. I am not a fan of the €200 RAM updates or Fusion drives costing a kidney. But I can't imagine not caring about Apple – in a way I never felt about any other company. Because Apple is special, even with Ive flattening everything and making it white and Cook raising profit margins to incredible heights. In 20 years I will be here writing a post about Apple's 60th anniversary (or thinking the post, or moving my eyes to create it, or using electromagnetic waves and magic Pencil 20.0 to teleport it to the forum...) To me, Google is necessary evil, Microsoft is unnecessary evil, Samsung is a company that I like to see failing again and again (although the S7 is kinda purdy... but I can't imagine ever buying a Samsung again). I don't care about smartwatches but the only one I like reading about is the Apple one. It's like having this really rich friend who is really cool and makes money in ways that I don't necessarily approve of but simultaneously admire him and want to learn from him.
*clinking a champagne glass against the screen of my Air* Live long and prosper Apple, and keep on exciting me.
I partially agree. Or I would, if we were talking about any other company out there. I don't think there ever was any other CEO (or even a person in general) affecting and defining a company as much as Steve did for Apple.
Henry Ford. Just the first name coming to my mind.
Anyway, you nailed the point.
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ESO es la verdad. Con solo un hijo de gallego mira lo que le pasa a la tierra más linda vista por los ojos. Imagínate cuánto peor un país lleno de gallegos. Pobre pueblo.
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ESO es la verdad. Con solo un hijo de gallego mira lo que le pasa a la tierra más linda vista por los ojos. Imagínate cuánto peor un país lleno de gallegos. Pobre pueblo.
Los gallegos están controlados el problema en España son los catalanes nacionalistas. Pero bueno todos los nacionalistas en general.
P.D. Que sepas que te estoy vacilando, yo también soy cubano. Vivi en la habana hasta los 10 años, después otros 12 años en mami y finalmente 14 años en madrid.
Well, you know what? Much like many Apple customers who didn't jump into the larger screen bandwagon (or who did so begrudgingly, because they had no other choice if they wanted to get their hands on the latest and greatest device and may end up switching back to its newer, smaller sibling), I don't really care! It has a Retina screen, it's pocketable (I come from a country where people and clothing are not *that* big) and I can use it one-handed (and I do have big hands, probably big enough for a 6S, but sometimes have to strech my thumb to reach the screen corners even on my 5S), so what more could I ask for?
Yes, I do sometimes notice that apps and Safari tabs reload quite a bit whenever I'm using resource-hungry apps, but it's a rare occurence. Apart from that, it is a superb device which never failed me. And that's why I'm thinking of getting an SE, more for future-proofing than anything else.
Says the guy who's been a member of this forum for less than one year and has written more posts than me in 12. I just felt like expressing my opinion, sosumi. Is this a discussion forum or what?
Frequency of posts surely isn't the point here, you obviously had some pent up feelings you wanted to share with the group, and myself, as a good upstanding citizen merely enquired if it had given you some inner tranquility.. no need to be so prescious about it. Peace x