A new mac design every 2 years from 1998 to 2009, then it dries up just like the screenless macs
to be fair, there was a lot of room for improvement back then to computers than it is today. Kind of like how we moved from Blackberries to iPhones and by iphone 6 things kind of stagnated again. we hit peak.
none the less, macs stagnated more than reasonable time especially for a company that is mainly a computer company. I know iPhones make more money but, no Macs and no MacOS, I believe all other Apple products will fall.
No SCSI! No ADB! No expansion slots! No floppy!
USB isn't mature enough to really solely on it!
Steve Jobs wouldn’t have ever allowed this!
Oh wait...
You are right I will give you that, Jobs did that, but...
I used computers before 1998, most people didn't have computers, those who did had 1 computer at home. Sharing files was not a thing. No one needed to move his 5GB files from his laptop to his desktop to edit, and then plug it in his TV to watch it. Most software was downloaded online or had a -CD- release. Games like Quake which might have been 10MB might required maybe 8 1.44MB floppies, let alone stuff like Command and Conquer which is like 50MB.
Unless you were in work environment or for school/college, I see very little reason back then to put files on a floppy and move files from one computer to the other. As we see here, this is a consumer computer, and I don't remember people doing their homework putting it on a floppy and taking it to the computer's school.
I also will guess people were happy to abandon the ADB and SCSI for the plug and play USB, which I can't say the same for the USB-C which to most is just a different shaped port that does the same thing.
You are right but lifestyle was different though
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My family was in the market for a new computer in 1999, as the LC was quite old by that point.
The whole family looking to buy a computer, 1 computer for all of them, those were the days..