Kind of neat. Nice to see my old beloved eMac in there! It served me well, still runs to this day, and never fell on me and crushed me to death.
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New 'Apple Museum' in Prague Shows Off Largest Private Collection of Apple Products
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Rare, but apparently not valuable. They sell on eBay in the $30 - $50 range. QuickTake 200 retail price in 1996 was $600.
That said, I'm hanging on to mine - maybe it will be worth something someday to my kids.
It was generally considered the first consumer digital camera, though it didn't sell well against Kodak and other popular camera names. Steve killed it and other ancillary products when he returned to Apple.
Apple should eventually do an official museum at the new spaceship campus and open to the public. I think it would be a great homage to Steve and also the company design aesthetics.
Meanwhile, an equally impressive PC museum shows off all the "cutting edge" technology produced in the PC market of the 80s and 90s and beyond....
So do I. I think it's just some Japanese product branded by Apple. Likely not worth much.
Microsoft Visitor Center has a museum section in it: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/visitorcenter/
IBM's Hursley Museum:
HP Museum: http://www.hpmuseum.net
HP Virtual Museum: http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/museum/
Dell does not have one, unless you count the Children's Museum in Austin, TX that Michael Dell and his wife made a huge multimillion dollar contribution to several years ago. Personally, that's the most important one out of all these other museums, including this latest "Apple" one.
This "Apple" one is not original. There have been technology-related museums/collections before it, and there will likely be more after it. Not sure what all the sensationalism is about, but whatever ...
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The collection stops at 2012 because that poor SOB would be spending OMGWTFBBQ money trying to buy all the latest products. New iterations have come out just over these last few years that didn't exist before (iPad mini, iPad Pro, iPhone PLUS, iPhone C, 5k iMac, etc.).
Although I agree that an obscene amount of money would need to be spent to fill out the last few products they're missing out, I did want to point out that the iPad Mini line is on the iPad table. After iPad 3 there is a orange line that splits off to the right, that's the Mini line. And that the iPhone 5c is visible in the iPhone table picture. It's on the right side in the back.
They don't have the 4k/5k iMac, anything newer than the iPhone 5s/5c, or iPad Pro. Could just not be pictured, but I don't believe the Mac Pro '13 is on display either.
Probably thinking of the messy aftermath...
Hmm, I think I have a gig in Sweden next year. Wonder how hard it would be to get to Prague afterwards. I went to Prague way back in the '90s and would love to go back.
I was just thinking... I think I have one too in my boxes of archives... I'll have to look.... might be worth something someday... hummm.... maybe not! LOL! It was a horrid product. I got it as part of my job back then and tried like hell to find some use for it.
Because there is life outside the US.
It is somewhat comical that you would think other companies wouldn't have museums (private or not) and that you think that Apple is the "world's innovator".
Here is a link to a video of a real museum on IBM in Endicott where IBM started - http://www.wbng.com/news/local/Preview-of-the-IBM-Endicott-Collection-with-photos-212393761.html Apple is so young in comparison, that thinking about it in terms of history seems kind of strange. IBM invented things like the hard drive and relational databases (SQL) and the very first computers ever made. Their museum starts with the roots of the company that is IBM when they made coffee grinders and meat slicers going back to 1911.
Regarding innovation, IBM has the leader in patents going way back, and Microsoft is in the top list as well, both trouncing Apple's patent filings.
In 2014, IBM was first again, Samsung second, Microsoft fifth, and Apple moved "up" to eleventh. http://www.ificlaims.com/index.php?page=misc_top_50_2014
The last 17 years, IBM has had more patents filed than anyone other company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_top_United_States_patent_recipients
So lets get real with "museum" when throwing down with companies like IBM that actually have some history. Do I love Apple products? Absolutely! But you can't think that Apple is the king of history, or that this museum is all that compelling. Its a fun destination for Apple fans, but not really very historical. It also seems that this Prague museum doesn't even have some of the rare Apple historical pieces, but rather a collection of semi-rare items that together are interesting.
