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MacRumors Turns 24 Today: Reflecting on Apple's Major Announcements
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Macrumors website on May 9th/10th 2000
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Me TOO….(on both revelations!!😭)Been here since 2003
I got into the site when the Apple product cycle was a little more interesting. I am still here because site still loads quick, still has Apple info and still has commenting which scratches the occasional itch. Plus old habits die hard
That being said a lot more fluff nowadays. They will do articles on bezels being .1mm thinner. And all time low prices that have happened 20x the past 12 months among other salivating topics.
Still where else am I going to go? lol.
That being said a lot more fluff nowadays. They will do articles on bezels being .1mm thinner. And all time low prices that have happened 20x the past 12 months among other salivating topics.
Still where else am I going to go? lol.
I started on a Power Computing CLONE !! ( starving artist income would not get me an “Apple Mac”……
I joined because I was looking for a Reddit alternative. I'm back on Reddit, but I have still lurked and posted here from time to time.
Been checking it almost daily for almost two decades. I especially loved the coverage of iPods and the iPhone (those rumors were WILD). Hoping for many more years!
happy birthday 🎉
I haven't been here long and I don't comment much because unfortunately I don't know how to converse in English, but I can read almost all the news and discussions. Thank you for the dedication of the team and all the commentators. I hope one day I can talk fluently with everyone 🙏🏻 (typed in Google Translate).
I haven't been here long and I don't comment much because unfortunately I don't know how to converse in English, but I can read almost all the news and discussions. Thank you for the dedication of the team and all the commentators. I hope one day I can talk fluently with everyone 🙏🏻 (typed in Google Translate).
Hilarious reading some of the comments on the iPhone release article. Some of those members should be called out for good AND bad takes!
Yup, exactly. Apple, or rather, Steve Jobs, knew what he was doing at the time, and we know now what Apple's plan was with the release of the iPod all those years ago. We were so short-sighted back then and maybe continue to be.
Happy birthday! I’ve been reading since 2004 or 2005, can’t remember, but didn’t register until just before the iPhone launch, which was my first Apple device that wasn’t like a computer I used at school. Heck of a first Apple device, lol. Still have it on a shelf in my studio. I was such a poor college student back then, it was really dumb that I bought that, haha.
I definitely have been reading since close to the beginning. Became a forum member back in 2002. Congrats on 24 years!
I guess you gotta see what else was around already back then.
For example, I came from using PocketPCs (HP Jornada) and Palm Treo 650. So a lot of the functionality of the iPhone was already there. The major thing really was the touch interface. And to be honest, to this day I would sometimes prefer a physical keyboard.
For me, the primary reason for getting an iPhone back then really was the integration with Mac OS X.
Yeah... clearly almost nobody believed back then that it would be a very popular device and the later revisions even more. Eventually I got the smaller 2004 model as a replacement of my MiniDisc walkman. Ah... those were the days.
Unfortunately for those who wanted a newer Newton in 2001... that took another 7 years.
For me the MacOS updates in the first decade were the most exciting times. I just dumped Windows in the fall of 2000 and MacOS X was such a relief back then. Every time a new version/update was announced I got excited. Always peeking on MR and ThinkSecret as in the first years we never could see the keynotes live (except those of us who found the satellite video feed). Ahhh... and when I got the new version, it did make working on my Mac better. Something that never happend on my previous Windows PC's. Yes, MacOS also had its issues over time, but Windows was and still is so horrible and not getting any better with the weekly updates.
Today MacRumors is one of the first websites I open daily, even at work. For me the most comfortable website to read Mac news and comments/experiences from other users (home and professional users) and the one reason why I donate.
Congrats with 24 years being on the net! I hope that MR stays this way for the next decades. There's still much Apple stuff to cover in the future.👍