I’ve never had a problem with Apple adapting new standards. I appreciate it. If you dig old tech that’s your thing.
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He didn't say that at all. On the contrary, he said change to new tech is inevitable. Apple didn't drag the industry away from floppies; that was gonna happen anyway and did so in its own time frame.
His point was that by dropping working tech before the change is popular enough to have adapters or alternatives everywhere, the company doing so unfortunately inconveniences its users. A partial Catch-22.
I strongly disagree. If it were not for companies like Apple, who push things forward and force us to make a clean break, these types of transitions would drag on forever and force consumers to invest in products filled with old technology for far longer than they should. The notion that everyone would just automatically transition to the new format “when it’s ready“ is a fantasy. Corporations are often spineless committees, who will do anything to try to please everyone, and in doing so remain mired in meh. Transitions like this require a catalyst, typically in the form of a category leader like Apple, with chutzpah.
But floppy drives did indeed just drift out of use over a number of years as people became aware of better ways of storing/transferring data. I myself had a Zip drive for xfer/backup in the mid 90s.
Win 98 was released on CDROM with a floppy installer which would have been many peoples intro to CD ROM. People in the UK certainly mainly had desk top or mini tower PCs at the end of the nineties and would still get floppy drives installed for years later as they were really cheap and to have one was convenient. As more software was sold on CD and more people got broadband and downloaded more stuff, the floppy just slowly drifted out of use. No Apple catalyst!
I agree. Back in those days Apple pushed nothing, not even customers into buying their expensive stuff. The Macintosh wasn’t in every home, the Windows machines were dominating. Apple was used in movie studios and for grafik design, it had no impact on what was the next tech standard.
If so, then the gaming industry killed the floppy disk system, as their games became larger each year and they thankfully used the cd rom system. I don’t remember much besides of games that needed that much space, even encarta (for those who remember it) was kind of exotic for most people, because the only reason it needed a compact disc was the included video and audio content.
Apple has never been into games back then, they only had nicely designed computer cases and expensive prices, but the home consumers fully focused on ibm/windows machines and the only reason why people bought one for their homes was Microsoft Word and Games.
If the internet would have never seen the light, Apple would not be existing anymore. Making the web browser similar to desktop browsers on a mobile gadget revived Apple. If there had been no internet for home consumers, what reason would there have been to buy a mac? Absolutely none!
